Web Sites

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Tall Ships of Atlantic Canada
http://www.atlantictallships.ca
An on-line collection of art works, materials, stories, interviews and historical documents from the region's sailing ship era.

Tall Ships Nova Scotia 2004 Web Site
www.cbc.ca/tallships2004/

American Sail Training Association
www.tallships.sailtraining.org/
Explanation of tall ship events and races with lists and links of active tallships

HMS Bounty web page
www3.ns.sympatico.ca/ccarey/bindex.html
Explores the 1960 replica of HMS Bounty built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia for the 1962 film.

Books
Tall Ships - Present Day

Koza, Thad, The Tall Ships (Tidemark Press, 2000 and 2004 editions)

Beken, Kenneth J. A Century of Tallships (Harrap Ltd, 1985).

Inventory of Large Preserved Historical Vessels (US National Parks Serivce, 1990)

Lieberman, Cy & Pat, Tall Ships 1986 (Middle Atlantic Press, 1986).

Nova Scotia Parade of Sail 1984 Guidebook (Atlantic Insight Publishing, 1984).

Books
Tall Ships - Historical

Armour, Charles and Thomas Lacke
Sailing Ships of the Maritimes
(Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1975)
A good combination of beautiful pictures and solid historical information.

Doane, Benjamin
Following the Sea
(Halifax: Nimbus and the Nova Scotia Museum, 1987)
A nicely illustrated personal account of going to sea from a Nova Scotian viewpoint.

Fingard, Judith
Jack in Port: Sailortowns of Eastern Canada
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982)
Social history of mariners and their port communities - the grimmer side of the "Golden Age".

McBride, Graham
Sailing Ship Rigs
(Halifax: Maritime Museum of the Atlantic)
A handy four page illustrated guide to telling a brig from a barque and what trades they sailed.
Also found on the web: <http://mma.ednet.ns.ca/AtoZ/rigs.html>

McKay, Colin
Windjammers and Bluenose Sailors
(Lockeport: Roseway Publishing, 1993)
An lively working class account of seafaring - a nice contrast to FWW Wallace.

Sager, Eric W
1)  Seagoing Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada 1820-1914
(Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989)
A readable examination of labour issues on maritime sailing and early steam vessels.
2)  Maritime Capital: The Shipping Industry in Atlantic Canada; 1820-1914
(Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 1990)
Explores the rise and fall of the Maritime sailing fleet using information from the Maritime Shipping Project at Memorial University. A heavy read - very economic and business oriented.

Spicer, Stanley
The Age of Sail: Master Shipbuilders of the Maritimes
(Halifax: Formac Publishing, 2001)
A beautifully illustrated exploration of ships and ship building in the region using case studies of several shipbuilding communities.

Wallace, Frederick William
1) Wooden Ships and Iron Men
(London: Hodder & Stoddart, 1924. Mika Reprint Edition, 1976)
2) In the Wake of the Wind Ships
(Toronto: Muson, 1929)
Classic accounts of the adventures of Atlantic Canadian sailing ships. Old fashioned in style but still stirring and pioneering work that continues to influence.