Book launch featuring author, Donald Feltmate
Tuesday, May 16, 6:30 pm
With in-depth archival research and 30 little-known historical photographs, Building a Better Boat chronicles the history of the recovery of the shore fishery, and the development of a new fishing craft known as wooden “Cape Island–type longliner”. It is a story of a difficult journey that needs to be told to honour the brave fishing families who persevered through poverty and hunger and developed a vessel that would help secure their future and generations to come. The definitive history of Cape Island–type longliner, a vessel unique to Nova Scotia that helped save its coastal fishery from collapse comes from Nimbus Publishing.
Donald J. Feltmate, OMM, CD, was born in the Cape Breton fishing village of Port Morien and grew up in a family of shore fishermen. Since his retirement from 1 Canadian Air Division of the Canadian Armed Forces, he has been actively involved in improving public accessibility to some of the most forgotten elements of Nova Scotia’s maritime heritage. In 2012, he completed a pictorial history of the Cape Island–type longliner for the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic.