Lancelot Press was a Canadian publishing company which operated between 1966 and 1997. It specialized in non-fiction titles, many of which were of a regional nature centered on

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, in the fields of local history, spirituality and personal memoirs. For many years, Lancelot was one of the very few Maritime publishing companies. The business was founded by Reverend William Pope (1923-2010),Obituary of Rev. William Pope
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. Responsibilities for its operation were shared with his wife Isabel. Between its founding and wrapping up, it published more than 500 titles.George L. Parker
"Small Presses"
''Canadian Encyclopedia'' Many well-known writers in the region published with Lancelot, including

Douglas How Douglas George How (1919–2001) was a Canadian journalist, magazine editor, and author. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba but after his father's death the family returned to Dorchester, New Brunswick where his mother was born and where Dougl ...

, Bridglal Pachai,

Alden Nowlan Alden Albert Nowlan (; January 25, 1933 – June 27, 1983) was a Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright. History Alden Nowlan was born into rural poverty in Stanley, Nova Scotia, adjacent to Mosherville, and close to the small town of Windso ...

and Dorothy Perkyns. The poet

Margaret Avison Margaret Avison, (April 23, 1918 – July 31, 2007) was a Canadian poet who twice won Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Prize.Michael Gnarowski,Avison, Margaret" ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Edmonton: Hurtig ...

published several titles with Lancelot including ''No Time'' (1989) which won the

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for Poetry. Many Lancelot Press titles remain in print through a publishing arrangement with Nimbus. __NOTOC__

Robert Pope Foundation

The Popes wrapped up Lancelot Press in 1997 to focus on a new enterprise, the Robert Pope Foundation. Named for their late son and artist Robert Pope, who died of

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, the foundation shares his legacy of art which conveyed the artist's impressions of illness and healing from a patient's point of view. His work was published in the book ''Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer'', which is today presented by the Robert Pope Foundation to first-year medical students across Canada. Pope's ''Illness and Healing'' was the recipient of the

Richardson Award The Evelyn Richardson Memorial Non-Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival, to the best work of adult non-fiction published in the previous year by a writer from Atlantic Canada. It is t ...

in 1992. In 2012, Pope's work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the

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.Elissa Bernard
"Robert Pope’s legacy revisited"
''Chronicle Herald'' (Halifax), September 22, 2012

Selected writers and works published

References

External links

* ISBN database

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lancelot Press Book publishing companies of Canada Defunct publishing companies of Canada Publishing companies established in 1966 Small press publishing companies 1966 establishments in Nova Scotia Companies disestablished in 1997 1997 establishments in Nova Scotia Defunct companies of Nova Scotia