We Belong to the Sea: A Nova Scotia Anthology

Susan McKnight is an administrator of the Courts Technology Integrated Justice Project at the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General.

We Belong to the Sea is an anthology of stories about Nova Scotia’s
relationship with the sea. Nova Scotians owe their very existence to the
sea, which is why the book’s editor had a huge compendium of stories
from which to choose. In her introduction, Stanton, who has her roots in
Nova Scotia, recounts a daring sea rescue involving her
great-grandfather.

An excerpt from Evelyn Richardson’s book, Where My Roots Go Deep,
serves as a preface to the stories, which are divided into four
sections: “Work at Sea,” “Building a Legacy,” “Danger at
Sea,” and “Tall Ship Tales.” Spanning the 1800s to the year 2000,
the stories are taken from journals, ship’s logs, old folks’
memories, and modern media accounts. Whatever the setting, the romance
of the sea flows smoothly through each story.