Online
Tall Ships Nova Scotia 2004 Web Site
www.cbc.ca/tallships2004/
American Sail Training Association
www.tallships.sailtraining.org/
Explanation of tall ship events and races with lists and links of active tallships.
HMS Bounty web page
www3.ns.sympatico.ca/ccarey/bindex.html
Explores the 1960 replica of HMS Bounty built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia for the 1962 film.
Books
Tall Ships - Present Day
Koza, Thad, The Tall Ships (Tidemark Press, 2000 and 2004 editions)
Beken, Kenneth J. A Century of Tallships (Harrap Ltd, 1985).
Inventory of Large Preserved Historical Vessels (US National Parks Serivce, 1990)
Lieberman, Cy & Pat, Tall Ships 1986 (Middle Atlantic Press, 1986).
Nova Scotia Parade of Sail 1984 Guidebook (Atlantic Insight Publishing, 1984).
Tall Ships - Historical
Armour, Charles and Thomas Lacke
Sailing Ships of the Maritimes
(Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1975)
A good combination of beautiful pictures and solid historical information.
Doane, Benjamin
Following the Sea
(Halifax: Nimbus and the Nova Scotia Museum, 1987)
A nicely illustrated personal account of going to sea from a Nova Scotian viewpoint.
Fingard, Judith
Jack in Port: Sailortowns of Eastern Canada
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982)
Social history of mariners and their port communities - the grimmer side of the "Golden Age".
McBride, Graham
Sailing Ship Rigs
(Halifax: Maritime Museum of the Atlantic)
A handy four page illustrated guide to telling a brig from a barque and what trades they sailed.
McKay, Colin
Windjammers and Bluenose Sailors
(Lockeport: Roseway Publishing, 1993)
An lively working class account of seafaring - a nice contrast to FWW Wallace.
Sager, Eric W
1) Seagoing Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada 1820-1914
(Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989)
A readable examination of labour issues on maritime sailing and early steam vessels.
2) Maritime Capital: The Shipping Industry in Atlantic Canada; 1820-1914
(Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 1990)
Explores the rise and fall of the Maritime sailing fleet using information from the Maritime Shipping Project at Memorial University. A heavy read - very economic and business oriented.
Spicer, Stanley
The Age of Sail: Master Shipbuilders of the Maritimes
(Halifax: Formac Publishing, 2001)
A beautifully illustrated exploration of ships and ship building in the region using case studies of several shipbuilding communities.
Wallace, Frederick William
1) Wooden Ships and Iron Men
(London: Hodder & Stoddart, 1924. Mika Reprint Edition, 1976)
2) In the Wake of the Wind Ships
(Toronto: Muson, 1929)
Classic accounts of the adventures of Atlantic Canadian sailing ships. Old fashioned in style but still stirring and pioneering work that continues to influence.