The Battle for Nova Scotia

Ronald Gaffney presents THE BATTLE FOR NOVA SCOTIA as “A Trilogy of Tales,” each one focused on a slightly different period in the history of colonial-era Atlantic Canada. For outsiders, this series of stories, most of which are written in the style of soldiers’ journal entries, gives significant perspective to how the English and the French colonists struggled with each other, as well as their fraught relations with the native Mi’kmaq people. It is easy to see why these colonies didn’t declare independence along with the Thirteen Colonies to the south – as the third act takes place in the years of the American Revolution, by which time the colonists of Canada had had too much war in their recent past to continue.