Stephen Kimber is an award-winning writer, editor, and broadcaster. He is the author of one novel, Reparations, and five non-fiction books, including the bestselling Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War.
He and his wife, Jeanie Kimber, live in Halifax.
"[A] thorough gallop through the town's history, and a lovely romp
it is. . . . A tale well told."
--The Globe and Mail "[A] remarkable story. . . . Kimber provides a
vivid portrait of men and women and their struggles to make their
lives over are both comic and tragic. . . . He offers a fascinating
might-have-been in the history of Canada."
--The Gazette (Montreal) "Prodigious research, a dash of
imagination and an engaging literary style make this a delightful
and satisfying read and a serious contribution to Loyalist
studies."
--James W. St.G. Walker, History Professor, University of Waterloo
"Canada is built on immigration, but immigration has rarely been
easy on the immigrants. In Loyalists and Layabouts Stephen Kimber
explores the immigrant dream gone spectacularly wrong: how 15,000
Americans flowed into Shelburne, Nova Scotia, in 1783 to build "the
envy of the American states" -- only to see their aspirations ebb
away like the Nova Scotia tide."
--Christopher Moore "What a splendid tale, full of diverse and
fascinating characters. It is also an overdue reminder of the price
white Loyalists paid for the choice to remain impoverished but
faithful subjects of George III. Black slaves paid an even higher
price, gaining freedom at the cost of justice, equality or respect.
No one who reads this book can ever again be comfortable with
ancestral stereotypes."
--Desmond Morton, Hiram Mills Professor of History, Emeritus,
McGill University
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