Nimbus Publishing is a publishing company based in
Halifax,
Nova Scotia. The company specializes in subjects relevant to the
Atlantic Provinces.
Until 2016, the company published an average of 35 to 40 new titles a year, but expanded its output to 55 titles in 2017. The company publishes in a broad span of genres including children’s picture and fiction books, non-fiction, history,
nature photography, current events, biography, sports, and cultural issues.
It is the largest Canadian-English language publisher east of Toronto.
In 2005, Nimbus introduced a new fiction imprint called Vagrant Press. In 2012, owner John Marshall sold the company and general manager Dan Soucoup retired.
Two employees, Terrilee Bulger and Heather Bryan, bought the company in order to prevent acquisition by a larger publishing house.
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In March 2018, the publishing house moved to a warehouse on Strawberry Hill Street in Halifax. At that time, a coffee shop and bookstore were added to the premises.]
Notable authors
* Sheree Fitch
*Jill Barber
Jill Barber (born February 6, 1980) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Originally associated with the folk-pop genre, she has performed vocal jazz and pop music on her more recent albums.[Graham Steele
Graham J. Steele (July 8, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian lawyer, author, and former politician, having represented the constituency of Halifax Fairview in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2001-2013 for the Nova Scotia New De ...]
* Bette MacDonald
* Paul Hollingsworth
Paul Hollingsworth is a Canadian sports reporter and author based out of Nova Scotia, currently working as the Atlantic Canada Bureau Reporter for TSN's flagship sports news program, SportsCentre. He is also a general assignment reporter and ...
* Janet Kitz
Janet F. Kitz (January 12, 1930 – May 10, 2019) was an educator, author and historian in Halifax, Nova Scotia who played a key role in the recognition of the 1917 Halifax Explosion, the largest man-made explosion prior to the atomic bomb and t ...
* John Boileau
Sir John Peter Boileau, 1st Baronet FRS, DL, JP (2 September 1794 – 9 March 1869) was a British baronet and archaeologist.
Background
Born in Hertford Street in London's district Mayfair, he was the eldest son of John Peter Boileau and his ...
* Nancy Regan
* Carol Bruneau
Carol Bruneau (born 1956) is a Canadian writer.
Biography
She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she has taught writing at NSCAD (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University) and Dalhousie University. She has a master's degree in English ...
Notable titles
*Bud the Spud
"Bud the Spud" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Stompin' Tom Connors. The song is an account of a trucker who hauls potatoes from Prince Edward Island, Connors' home province.[Stompin' Tom Connors
Charles Thomas "Stompin' Tom" Connors, OC (February 9, 1936 – March 6, 2013) was a Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter. Focusing his career exclusively on his native Canada, he is credited with writing more than 300 songs and has rele ...]
* Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery, by Janet Kitz
* We Were Not the Savages
''We Were Not the Savages'' (1993 and later editions) is a history of the Mi'kmaq people during the period of European colonization written by Daniel N. Paul. It has been published in four editions. The first, subtitled ''A Micmac Perspective on th ...
, by Daniel N. Paul
Daniel Nicholas Paul, , (born December 5, 1938) is a Miꞌkmaq elder, author, columnist, and human rights activist. Paul is perhaps best known as the author of the book '' We Were Not the Savages''. Paul asserts that this book is the first such his ...
References
External links
Official website
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Book publishing companies of Canada
Publishing companies established in 1978
Companies based in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Culture of Halifax, Nova Scotia
1978 establishments in Nova Scotia