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The Evangeline Land
The Evangeline Land: Illustrated in Halftone
- Written and published A. L. Hardy, Kentville, Nova Scotia
- Circa 1902
- Printed in Grand Rapids, Michigan, James Bayne
This photographic booklet contains annotated half tone scenic photographs by A. L. Hardy showing Western Nova Scotian and the Annapolis Valley arranged along the route of the Dominion Atlantic from Yarmouth to Halifax. It presents a romantic rural landscape theme based on the legend and literature of the Acadians as depicted in Longfellow's poem Evangeline.
It is quite similar to the series of photographic booklets The Land Of Evangeline published by the Dominion Atlantc Railway which also used A. L. Hardy images. However The Evangeline Land was published and sold directly by A. L. Hardy.
His booklet does not contain a publication date but is believed to have been first published in 1902.[1] It was published in several editions, with slightly different selections of images after it first came out about 1902. One edition was published about 1905 and includes two images the 1904 expansion of the Kentville Station which are not present in other editions. Another was published in 1906.
The Nova Scotia Legislative Library has a copy of the 1905 edition, call no. 917.1634H.
An online version may be viewed here at the Internet Archive:
Online version scanned from microfilm of the the 1905 original held by the Nova Scotia Legislative Library
The Nova Scotia Archives has a copy of the 1906 edition, call no. F91 N85 G94 no. 37, which contained a new cover. A online version of the 67 pages may be viewed here: Online version of the 1906 edition of Evangeline Land in Nova Scotia Archives virtual exhibit
Gallery
The First Big Joggins Bridge with Digby in the background, circa 1900.
The Kentville Station and Freight Shed, photographed by A.L. Hardy, circa 1905.
Kingsport Wharf at the launch of the barquentine Skoda with three DAR flatcars on the wharf siding, June 1, 1893.
References
- ↑ [https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/download/12081/12925 GRAEME WYNN - "Images of the Acadian Valley": The Photographs of Amos Lawson Hardy", Acadiensis Vol. 15, No. 1 (AUTUMN/AUTOMNE 1985), p. 70]
