“Together with five other men, I went out on the bowsprit to stow the jib after the downhaul and sheets had been manned. The canvas was flogging so violently that the stout bowsprit whipped like a sapling . . . we hung on with every finger a fishhook as the foaming water rose up to our knees.” As a young journalist in Montreal in 1911, Frederick William Wallace only dreamed of the rough and tumble seafaring life. Little did he know he would be hanging on for dear life just one year later aboard the Effie M. Morrissey somewhere off the coast of Nova Scotia. Between 1911 and 1917, in the last age of unassisted sail, Frederick William Wallace made seven voyages aboard fishing schooners, and with his simple box camera, he photographed the men, the vessels and the work itself, knowing that he was capturing a century-old way of life at the moment of its passing. A Camera on the Banks: Frederick William Wallace and the Fishermen of Nova Scotia, tells this story in more than a hundred of Wallace’s breathtaking photographs and drawings, as well as M. Brook Taylor’s absorbing account of the fishery and the man who documented it in such loving detail. A Camera on the Banks is the first book of historic sailing photographs published with such unity and vision. A Camera on the Banks is designed to accompany a touring exhibition of photographs by Frederic William Wallace.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 639.2/09716
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-ns
- ISBN
- 9781459340053 9780864924414
- LCCN
- SH229
- LCCN Item number
- T39 2006eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (152 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00212093 (OCoLC)605715148 (CaOOCEL)415517
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Frederick William Wallace and the fishermen of Nova Scotia
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- This page intentionally blank 2
- Introduction 9 5
- Prologue 11 5
- Image credits 147 5
- Index 149 5
- This page intentionally blank 6
- IntroductIon 9
- ProloGue 11
- Frederick William Wallaces Seven Voyages aboard Banks Schooners 38
- Dorothy M. Smart Castilian Dorothy M. Smart 70
- Captain Longmire and the Bay Shore Crew 70
- Albert J. Lutz Smart Smart Lutz Digby Weekly Courier 71
- Bay State Albert J. Lutz Bay State Lutz Bay State Bay State 84
- Bay State Lutz 84
- Mechanization 84
- Lutz Lutz Active Cambodia 85
- Rayon dOr Rayon dOr 85
- Monty Muise 123
- Wallace in Print and on Film 126
- ImaGe credIts 147
- Index 149
