Harry Bruce bibliography

Harry Bruce
bibliography
Books22
Articles62
Scripts1
Interviews3
References and footnotes

Harry Bruce (8 July 1934 – 18 August 2024) was a Canadian writer and journalist who published articles in newspapers and magazines across Canada, as well as 22 books. The following lists his non-fiction and biographical works, together with selected articles and interviews.

Books

Year Title Publisher Identifiers Notes
1968 The Short Happy Walks of Max Macpherson Macmillan of Canada ISBN 0-0021-1621-9
LCCN 77-393685
OCLC 3868180
[1]
1975 Nova Scotia A. Hawke ISBN 0-8888-2006-2
LCCN 74-84530
OCLC 670371759
[2]
1977 Lifeline: The Story of the Atlantic Ferries and Coastal Boats Macmillan of Canada ISBN 0-7705-1608-4
OCLC 4010392
[3][a]
1979 The Story of R.A. Jodrey, Entrepreneur McClelland & Stewart OCLC 872643159 [4]
1982 A Basket of Apples: Recollections of Historic Nova Scotia Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-1954-0393-0
OCLC 9616608
[5][b]
1984 Each Moment as it Flies Methuen Publishing ISBN 0-4589-8170-2
OCLC 15154987
[6][7][c]
1984 The Gulf of St. Lawrence Oxford University Press ISBN 0-1954-0452-1
OCLC 1019284591
[d]
1985 Movin' East: The Further Writings of Harry Bruce Methuen Publishing ISBN 0-4589-9670-X
OCLC 16060525
[8][9][e]
1985 Frank Sobey: The Man and the Empire Macmillan of Canada ISBN 978-0-9208-5262-0
OCLC 12388767
[10][f]
1987 A Century at Central Trust: The Story of its Growth Nimbus Publishing ISBN 0-9208-5291-2
OCLC 16182151
[11][g]
1988 Down Home: Notes of a Maritime Son Key Porter Books ISBN 1-5501-3098-6
OCLC 25245655
[8][12][h]
1991 Atlantic Canada Key Porter Books ISBN 1-5501-3268-7
OCLC 28674631
[13][i]
1992 Maud: The Life of L.M. Montgomery Seal Bantam Books ISBN 978-0-5535-6584-3
OCLC 30657162
[1][14][15][j]
1995 Corporate Navigator: The Life of Frank Manning Covert McClelland & Stewart ISBN 978-0-7710-1709-4
OCLC 35879734
[1][k]
1997 The Pig that Flew: The Battle to Privatize Canadian National Douglas & McIntyre ISBN 978-1-5505-4609-5
OCLC 38536116
[16]
1997 An Illustrated History of Nova Scotia Nimbus Publishing ISBN 978-1-5510-9219-5
OCLC 967787963
[16][l]
2000 Tall Ships: An Odyssey Key Porter Books ISBN 978-1-5526-3157-7
OCLC 44152233
[m]
2002 Never Content: How Mavericks and Outsiders Made a Surprise Winner of Maritime Life Key Porter Books ISBN 978-1-5526-3496-7
OCLC 49977863
[17]
2009 Page Fright: Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers McClelland & Stewart ISBN 978-0-7710-1713-1
OCLC 503042189
[18][19][n]
2020 Halifax and Me Pottersfield Press ISBN 978-1-9897-2517-7
OCLC 1159241221
[20]
2021 The Perfect Day and Other Stories Pottersfield Press ISBN 978-1-9897-2537-5
OCLC 1220951027
[21]
2024 Characters Along the Road Pottersfield Press ISBN 978-1-9907-7061-6
OCLC 1429036826
[22]

Articles

Date Title Publication Notes References
1968 March Trials of a WASP in Backwoods Quebec The Star Weekly Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [23]
1968 August It Was Gala Day, and Gorgeous Violence Filled the Night The Star Weekly Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [24]
1968 September Ghosts of Summers Past The Star Weekly Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [25]
1970 April I Saw Him Fall, and the Time Will Not Come Round Again Maclean's Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [26]
1970 May He Had a Bird in a Plastic Bag, and Oil, Baby, Oil Maclean's Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [27]
1970 December Through the Noise, and Glorious Garbage, You CAN See the Atlantic The Globe Magazine Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [28]
1971 September Maybe There's a Secret Only Maritimers Know Saturday Night Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [29]
1972 The Unacknowledged Lost Generation Drops Out at Forty. Or Forty-five This Country in the Morning Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [30]
1972 Things I Never Got to Do This Country in the Morning Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [31]
1972 September It's Beautiful, but Don't Eat the Clams Saturday Night Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [32]
1973 Thwack! Pock! Summer Is Back in the Blood This Country in the Morning Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [33]
1973 February Toronto Islands in Winter Toronto Life Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [34]
1973 May The Most Competitive Man I've Ever Known Weekend Magazine Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [35]
1973 July A Fire Took the Nest: A Hammer Took the Birds The Toronto Star Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [36]
1973 July The Alchemy of Sailing. Don't Call It a Sport Maclean's Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [37]
1973 October November This Country in the Morning Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [38]
1973 October Here's Looking at You, Joey Maclean's Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [39]
1973 October North America's Best Schooner Builder Weekend Magazine Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [40]
1973 December The Monster That Ate Toronto Saturday Night Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [41]
1973 December Confessions of a Failed Jock Quest Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [42]
1974 June My Short, Grisly Career as a TV Superstar Maclean's Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [43]
1974 September The Way We Were at Mount Allison Maclean's Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [44]
1975 June Is Unrequited Love the Best? Maclean's Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [45]
1975 June Love Letter to the Art of Tying Knots Maclean's Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [46]
1975 November The Fine Art of Familiarity The Canadian Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [47]
1976 April The Lady Was for Burning The Canadian Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [48]
1976 July Riding on The Ocean Limited: Or, Feds, Spare That Train! The Canadian Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [49]
1976 November Johnny Canuck Is a Yuk Saturday Night Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [50]
1976 December Allan J. MacEachen: At home with New Zealand's Bluenosers Axiom: Atlantic Canada's Magazine vol.3 (1) pp. 10–13, 25
1977 May Remember The Heap: She Served Us Well The Canadian Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [51]
1977 November Max MacPherson Walks Again The City Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [52]
1978 January The Spanish Have a Word for What We Need The Canadian Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [53]
1978 January United We Stand, Divided We Fall—Frozen Stiff The Canadian Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [54]
1978 April Loser Ali The Canadian Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [55]
1978 May Alas for the Creaky Senior Citizens of Sport The Canadian Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [56]
1978 August Labour Day Is a Dreaded Bell in the Schoolyard of the Mind The Canadian Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [57]
1978 October What's a Child Worth in the Era of the Blabbermouth? The Canadian Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [58]
1978 December Christmas Blues The Canadian Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [59]
1978 December Are the Doves of Barbados Any Different from the Pigeons of Bay Street? Saturday Night Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [60]
1979 January Gordie Howe 50; Pundits 0 The Canadian Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [61]
1979 February Future Fantasy The Canadian Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [62]
1979 May Thanks, but I'd Rather Have a Hot Bath The Canadian Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [63]
1979 August Why Must a Man Smell Like Rotting Flowers in a Cemetery? The Canadian Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [64]
1979 September The Short, Sweet Summer of a Forty-Five-Year-Old Gut-Shooter The Canadian Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [65]
1980 January "Stay a While," He Said Today Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [66]
1980 April The Glory That Was Crete Atlantic Insight Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [67]
1980 August Out of Step with the Times but Still Keeping Time with My Wife Today Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [68]
1980 August Dear Statistics Canada. Here's an Answer to Question Eight Today Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [69]
1980 August "God Loves Seniors, but Who Loves the Old? Today Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [70]
1980 September The Relief of Retreat to a Perfect Outhouse Today Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [71]
1980 October Hold the Day, Kids. It'll Never Come Again Today Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [72]
1980 December New Year's Is a Bummer! Auld Acquaintance Should Be Forgot Today Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [73]
1981 February Joys of the Outhouse Atlantic Insight Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [74]
1981 December The most important realist painter of the Western World Atlantic Insight
  • Foundation Award for Culture, National Magazine Awards
  • Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
[75]
1982 How I Lost the Jogging Faith on a Bad Day at Black Rock Beach Quest Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [76]
1982 May Florida? Are You Kidding? Atlantic Insight Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [77]
1982 July Halifax Is a City to Dance in Atlantic Insight Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [78]
1982 July "Scotia's Darling Seat": The Glory of Edinburgh Atlantic Insight Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [79]
1982 November The fiery baptism of Alexa Atlantic Insight
1983 March The Softball Was Always Hard Quest Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [80]
1983 September Raise a glass, if you please, to the Dalhousie Law School! Atlantic Insight
1983 March He's a Lifelong Failure at Basic Mathematics Atlantic Insight Republished in Each Moment as it Flies [81]
1984 July A Domestic Fable for our Times Atlantic Insight
[82]

Scripts

Year Title Broadcaster Notes References
1976 Word from an Ambassador of Dreams Radio drama [18]

Interviews

Date Title Interviewer
31 March 1987 Journalist Bruce says newspapers in Atlantic region are improving Wallie Sears, Times-Transcript
24 September 2009 Ten Questions with Harry Bruce Open Book: Toronto
October 2010 The Art of the Story Marjorie Simmins, Halifax Magazine

References

Notes

Citations

  1. ^ a b c Benson & Toye (1997); Toye (2001).
  2. ^ Nova Scotia Historical Review 1984.
  3. ^ Robb (1977); Matthews (1978).
  4. ^ McCallum 1991.
  5. ^ Edinborough 1982.
  6. ^ Payzant (1985); Benson & Toye (1997).
  7. ^ Mortin (1984); Drew (1989); Pearson (1984); Stewart (1984).
  8. ^ a b Benson & Toye 1997.
  9. ^ Wright 1986.
  10. ^ Inwood (1986); McCallum (1991).
  11. ^ Nowlan (1988).
  12. ^ Weintraub (1988); Slopen (1988); Ward (1988).
  13. ^ Cochrane (1991); Love (1991).
  14. ^ Garcia-Johnson 1994, p. 23.
  15. ^ Delgatty Rutland (1992); Curry (1992).
  16. ^ a b Toye 2001.
  17. ^ Cran 2003.
  18. ^ a b Nahrgang 2011, p. 53.
  19. ^ Macgowan (2009); Shiflett (2010).
  20. ^ Arnott (2020); Lawlor (2020).
  21. ^ Lawlor 2020.
  22. ^ Jones 2024.
  23. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 216–218.
  24. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 39–42.
  25. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 46–50.
  26. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 265–268.
  27. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 112–114.
  28. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 59–68.
  29. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 123–127.
  30. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 276–279.
  31. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 279–280.
  32. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 115–122.
  33. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 187–189.
  34. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 43–46.
  35. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 151–160.
  36. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 79–81.
  37. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 85–91.
  38. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 25–27.
  39. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 130–132.
  40. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 97–104.
  41. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 51–58.
  42. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 189–194.
  43. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 200–207.
  44. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 13–22.
  45. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 81–84.
  46. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 92–96.
  47. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 133–141.
  48. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 161–179.
  49. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 36–39.
  50. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 253–258.
  51. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 34–36.
  52. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 69–74.
  53. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 248–250.
  54. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 250–252.
  55. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 182–184.
  56. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 184–186.
  57. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 23–25.
  58. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 213–215.
  59. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 27–29.
  60. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 223–232.
  61. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 180–182.
  62. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 259–261.
  63. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 128–130.
  64. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 11–13.
  65. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 32–34.
  66. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 263–265.
  67. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 240–247.
  68. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 208–210.
  69. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 281–283.
  70. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 261–263.
  71. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 271–273.
  72. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 269–271.
  73. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 30–31.
  74. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 273–275.
  75. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 142–150.
  76. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 195–200.
  77. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 219–222.
  78. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 75–78.
  79. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 233–239.
  80. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 1–6.
  81. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 7–10.
  82. ^ Bruce 1984, pp. 210–213.

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