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  HISTORY

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  Louisbourg, Past, Present, Future. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2013.

  N’in Na L’nu: The Mi’kmaq of Prince Edward Island. Charlottetown: Acorn Books, 2013.

  Endgame 1758. The Promise, The Glory and The Despair of Louisbourg’s Final Decade. Lincoln, Nebraska and Sydney, NS: University of Nebraska Press and Cape Breton Univeristy Press, 2007.

  1758 : La finale. Promesses, Splendeur et Désolation dans la dernière décennie de Louisbourg. Québec : Presses de l’Université Laval, 2011.

  Storied Shores: St. Peter’s, Isle Madame and Chapel Island in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Sydney: Cape Breton University Press, 2004.

  Grand-Pré, Heart of Acadie. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2004. Co-authored with W. P. Kerr. French edition: Grand-Pré, Coeur de l’Acadie. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2004. traduit par Sylvain Filion.

  Control & Order: The Evolution of French Colonial Louisbourg, 1713-1758. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2001.

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  Tracks Across the Landscape: A Commemorative History of the S&L Railway. Sydney: UCCB Press, 1995. Co-Authored with Brian Campbell.

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  From the Hearth: Recipes from the World of 18th-Century Louisbourg. Sydney: Cape Breton University Press, 1986. Co-authored with Hope Dunton.

  The Summer of 1744, A Portrait of Life in 18th-Century Louisbourg. Ottawa: Parks Canada, 2002 [1983] / L’Été de 1744: La vie quotidienne à Louisbourg au XVIIIe siècle. Ottawa: Parcs Canada, 202 [1983].

  Defending Halifax: Ordnance, 1825-1906. Ottawa: Parks Canada, 1981 / La défense de Halifax: artillerie, 1825-1906. Ottawa: Parcs Canada, 1981.

  About the Author

  Photo by Mary Topshee

  A. J. B. Johnston has published fourteen books and hundreds of articles over a thirty-plus years career studying and writing about 18th-century French colonial history in Acadia. In recognition of his prolific career as a historian and writer, John was invested by France with the title Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Order of Academic Palms). Johnston has now turned his hand to fiction.

  Long inspired to explore the world of Thomas Pichon (1700-1781), in his first novel, Thomas, A Secret Life (CBU Press, 2012), Johnston applied his considerable sense of 18th-century French history to imagine young Pichon’s early life in Normandy and Paris. For The Maze and Crossings, he did extensive research on 18th-century London and Bath.

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