Harry Bruce bibliography

Harry Bruce
bibliography

File:Harry Bruce 2020.jpg Harry Bruce pictured in 2020
Books↙	22
Articles↙	78
Scripts↙	1
References and footnotes

Harry Bruce was a Canadian writer and journalist. He attended Mount Allison University, receiving a B.A. in English Literature. He also attended the London School of Economics and Massey College at the University of Toronto. Bruce began his career as a newspaper reporter in Toronto, before moving into the magazine business. He attained editorial positions at many prominent Canadian magazines. Bruce moved to Halifax in 1971, beginning a career as a freelance writer. In 1979, he was founding editor of Atlantic Insight, a magazine focused on Atlantic Canada. Later in his career, while also a successful freelance columnist, Bruce became known as a prolific non-fiction writer. Over the course of his seven decade long career, he wrote 21 non-fiction books, and published columns in many major newspapers and magazines in Canada.

He is a recipient of four Atlantic Journalism Awards, two National Magazine Awards, one Association of Canadian Television and Radio Artists Award, two Evelyn Richardson Awards and the 2013 Atlantic Journalism Lifetime Achievement Award.

Books

Year	Title	Publisher	Identifiers	References
1968	The Short Happy Walks of Max Macpherson	Macmillan of Canada	LCCN 77-393685
1975	Nova Scotia	A. Hawke	ISBN 0-8888-2006-2 Search this book on . LCCN 74-84530
1977	Lifeline: The Story of the Atlantic Ferries and Coastal Boats	Macmillan of Canada	ISBN 0-7705-1608-4 Search this book on .
1979	The Story of R.A. Jodrey, Entrepreneur	McClelland & Stewart
1982	A Basket of Apples: Recollections of Historic Nova Scotia	Oxford University Press	ISBN 978-0-1954-0393-0 Search this book on .
1984	Each Moment as it Flies	Metheun
1984	The Gulf of St. Lawrence	Oxford University Press	ISBN 0-1954-0452-1 Search this book on .
1985	Movin' East: The Further Writings of Harry Bruce		ISBN 0-4589-9670-X Search this book on .
1985	Frank Sobey: The Man and the Empire	Macmillan of Canada	ISBN 978-0-9208-5262-0 Search this book on .
1987	A Century at Central Trust: The Story of it's Growth	Nimbus Publishing	ISBN 0-9208-5291-2 Search this book on .
1988	Down Home: Notes of a Maritime Son	Key Porter Books	ISBN 1-5501-3098-6 Search this book on .
1991	Atlantic Canada	Key Porter Books	ISBN 1-5501-3268-7 Search this book on .
1994	Maud: The Life of L.M. Montgomery	Seal Bantam Books	ISBN 978-0-5535-6584-3 Search this book on .
1995	Corporate Navigator: The Life of Frank Manning Covert	McClelland & Stewart	ISBN 978-0-7710-1709-4 Search this book on .
1997	The Pig that Flew: The Battle to Privatize Canadian National	Douglas & McIntyre	ISBN 978-1-5505-4609-5 Search this book on .
1997	An Illustrated History of Nova Scotia	Nimbus Publishing	ISBN 978-1-5510-9219-5 Search this book on .
2000	Tall Ships: An Odyssey	Key Porter Books	ISBN 978-1-5526-3157-7 Search this book on .
2002	Never Content: How Mavericks and Outsiders Made a Surprise Winner of Maritime Life		ISBN 978-1-5526-3496-7 Search this book on .
2009	Page Fright: Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers	McClelland & Stewart	ISBN 978-0-7710-1713-1 Search this book on .
2020	Halifax and Me	Pottersfield Press	ISBN 978-1-9897-2517-7 Search this book on .
2021	The Perfect Day and Other Stories	Pottersfield Press	ISBN 978-1-9897-2537-5 Search this book on .
2024	Characters Along the Road	Pottersfield Press	ISBN 978-1-9907-7061-6 Search this book on .

Articles

Date	Title	Publication	Notes	References
1968 March	Trials of a WASP in Backwoods Quebec	The Star Weekly	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1968 August	It Was Gala Day, and Gorgeous Violence Filled the Night	The Star Weekly	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1968 September	Ghosts of Summers Past	The Star Weekly	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1968 October	The Short and Happy Vanity of Harry Bruce	The Toronto Star
1970 April	I Saw Him Fall, and the Time Will Not Come Round Again	Maclean's	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1970 May	He Had a Bird in a Plastic Bag, and Oil, Baby, Oil	Maclean's	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1970 December	Through the Noise, and Glorious Garbage, You CAN See the Atlantic	The Globe Magazine	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1971 April	Farewell, Toronto – please don't change too much	The Toronto Star
1971 July	Escape to the Sea and Gulls	The Ottawa Journal
1971 September	Maybe There's a Secret Only Maritimers Know	Saturday Night	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1971 October	Reflections on the Sudden Destruction of One Inch of the Second Finger of My Left Hand	Saturday Night	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1972	The Unacknowledged Lost Generation Drops Out at Forty. Or Forty-five	This Country in the Morning	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1972	Things I Never Got to Do	This Country in the Morning	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1972 September	It's Beautiful, but Don't Eat the Clams	Saturday Night	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1973	Thwack! Pock! Summer Is Back in the Blood	This Country in the Morning	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1973 February	Toronto Islands in Winter	Toronto Life	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1973 May	The Most Competitive Man I've Ever Known	Weekend Magazine	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1973 July	A Fire Took the Nest: A Hammer Took the Birds	The Toronto Star	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1973 July	The Alchemy of Sailing. Don't Call It a Sport	Maclean's	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1973 October	November	This Country in the Morning	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1973 October	Here's Looking at You, Joey	Maclean's	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1973 October	North America's Best Schooner Builder	Weekend Magazine	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1973 December	The Monster That Ate Toronto	Saturday Night	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1973 December	Confessions of a Failed Jock	Quest	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1974 March	Putting Middle-Class Memorabilia To Work	The Windsor Star The Ottawa Journal
1974 June	My Short, Grisly Career as a TV Superstar	Maclean's	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1974 September	The Way We Were at Mount Allison	Maclean's	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1974 September	Harry Bruce	The Times-Transcript The Toronto Star
1975 June	Is Unrequited Love the Best?	Maclean's	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1975 June	Love Letter to the Art of Tying Knots	Maclean's	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1975 November	The Fine Art of Familiarity	The Canadian	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1976 April	The Lady Was for Burning	The Canadian	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1976 July	Riding on The Ocean Limited: Or, Feds, Spare That Train!	The Canadian	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1976 November	Johnny Canuck Is a Yuk	Saturday Night	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1976 December	Allan J. MacEachen: At home with New Zealand's Bluenosers	Axiom: Atlantic Canada's Magazine	vol.3 (1) pp. 10-13, 25
1977 May	Remember The Heap: She Served Us Well	The Canadian	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1977 November	Max MacPherson Walks Again	The City	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1978 January	The Spanish Have a Word for What We Need	The Canadian	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1978 January	United We Stand, Divided We Fall—Frozen Stiff	The Canadian	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1978 February	Honest – some of my best friends are princes	The Hamilton Spectator
1978 April	Loser Ali	The Canadian	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1978 May	Alas for the Creaky Senior Citizens of Sport	The Canadian	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1978 August	Labour Day Is a Dreaded Bell in the Schoolyard of the Mind	The Canadian	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1978 October	What's a Child Worth in the Era of the Blabbermouth?	The Canadian	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1978 December	Christmas Blues	The Canadian	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1978 December	Are the Doves of Barbados Any Different from the Pigeons of Bay Street?	Saturday Night	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1979 January	Gordie Howe 50; Pundits 0	The Canadian	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1979 February	Future Fantasy	The Canadian	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1979 May	Thanks, but I'd Rather Have a Hot Bath	The Canadian	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1979 August	Why Must a Man Smell Like Rotting Flowers in a Cemetery?	The Canadian	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1979 September	The Short, Sweet Summer of a Forty-Five-Year-Old Gut-Shooter	The Canadian	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1980 January	"Stay a While," He Said	Today	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1980 January	"Stay a While," He Said	Today	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1980 April	The Glory That Was Crete	Atlantic Insight	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1980 August	Out of Step with the Times but Still Keeping Time with My Wife	Today	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1980 August	Dear Statistics Canada. Here's an Answer to Question Eight	Today	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1980 August	The Unwanted	The Vancouver Sun The Calgary Herald The Gazette
1980 September	The Relief of Retreat to a Perfect Outhouse	Today	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1980 October	Hold the Day, Kids. It'll Never Come Again	Today	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1980 December	New Year's Is a Bummer! Auld Acquaintance Should Be Forgot	Today	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1981 February	Joys of the Outhouse	Atlantic Insight	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1981 December	The most important realist painter of the Western World	Atlantic Insight	Foundation Award for Culture, National Magazine Awards Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1982	How I Lost the Jogging Faith on a Bad Day at Black Rock Beach	Quest	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1982 May	Florida? Are You Kidding?	Atlantic Insight	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1982 July	Halifax Is a City to Dance in	Atlantic Insight	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1982 July	"Scotia's Darling Seat": The Glory of Edinburgh	Atlantic Insight	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1982 November	The fiery baptism of Alexa	Atlantic Insight	Best Magazine Article Atlantic Journalism Awards
1983 March	The Softball Was Always Hard	Quest	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1983 September	Raise a glass, if you please, to the Dalhousie Law School!	Atlantic Insight	Best Magazine Article Atlantic Journalism Awards
1983 March	He's a Lifelong Failure at Basic Mathematics	Atlantic Insight	Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1984 July	A Domestic Fable for our Times	Atlantic Insight	Toronto-Dominion Bank Award for Humour Republished in Each Moment as it Flies
1987 November	You have won a prize for sure, Harry Bruce, it is fantastic and true	The Gazette
1987 November	Fleeing World Headquarters for Junk Mail	The Ottawa Citizen
1988 April	Public language mangling caught by eagle-eyed word-guardians	The Ottawa Citizen
1998 December	Putting Mt. A in Halifax	Times & Transcript
2006 July	Advice to Mr. Prime Minister: Keep cool with Mr. Bush	Guelph Mercury
2007 March	Pot a growing concern in B.C.	Guelph Mercury
2020 June	HARRY BRUCE: Canada's many blessings that I don’t take for granted	PNI Atlantic News

Scripts

Year	Title	Broadcaster	Notes	References
1976	Word from an Ambassador of Dreams		Radio drama

References

Sources

• Benson, Eugene; Toye, William (1997). The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (2 ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-1954-1167-6. Search this book on
• Nahrgang, Jennifer (2011). St. Pierre, Paul Matthew, ed. Canadian Literary Humorists. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Gale Research. pp. 50–53. ISBN 978-0-7876-8180-7. Search this book on
• "Nova Scotia". Nova Scotia Historical Review. Public Archives of Nova Scotia. 4 (1): 3. 1984.
• McCallum, Margaret (1991). "Making Myths and Making Good: Maritime Business Biographies" (PDF). Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region. University of New Brunswick. 21 (1): 180–190. JSTOR 30303099. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 March 2025. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
• Inwood, K. (1986). "Frank Sobey: The Man and the Empire by Harry Bruce (review)". The Canadian Historical Review. University of Toronto Press. 67 (1): 103–104. ISSN 1710-1093.
• Payzant, Joan M. (January 1985). "Each Moment As It Flies". Canadian Review of Materials. Manitoba Library Association. 13 (1). Archived from the original on 12 October 2024. Retrieved 4 May 2025.

External links

• Atlantic Insight Magazine archives – via Archive.org

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