Lancelot Press was a Canadian publishing company which operated between 1966 and 1997. It specialized in non-fiction titles, many of which were of a regional nature centered on Maritime Canada, in the fields of local history, spirituality and personal memoirs. For many years, Lancelot was one of the very few Maritime publishing companies.
The business was founded by Reverend William Pope (1923-2010),Obituary of Rev. William Pope a United Church minister, near Hantsport, Nova Scotia. Responsibilities for its operation were shared with his wife Isabel. Between its founding and wrapping up, it published more than 500 titles.George L. Parker, "Small Presses", Canadian EncyclopediaCompany Listing Many well-known writers in the region published with Lancelot, including Douglas How, Bridglal Pachai, Alden Nowlan and Dorothy Perkyns. The poet Margaret Avison published several titles with Lancelot including No Time (1989) which won the Governor General's Award for Poetry.
Many Lancelot Press titles remain in print through a publishing arrangement with Nimbus. __NOTOC__
Robert Pope Foundation The Popes wrapped up Lancelot Press in 1997 to focus on a new enterprise, the Robert Pope Foundation.Jock Murray, "Humane Health Care ..." Named for their late son and artist Robert Pope, who died of Hodgkins Lymphoma, the foundation shares his legacy of art which conveyed the artist's impressions of illness and healing from a patient's point of view. His work was published in the book Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer, which is today presented by the Robert Pope Foundation to first-year medical students across Canada. Pope's Illness and Healing was the recipient of the Richardson Award in 1992. In 2012, Pope's work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.Elissa Bernard, "Robert Pope’s legacy revisited", Chronicle Herald (Halifax), September 22, 2012
Selected writers and works published
Writer Titles Year Notes Margaret Avison sunblueA Kind of PerseveranceNo time*Not Yet but Still 1978198419891997 * Winner, Governor General's Award for Poetry Douglas How Canada's Mystery Man of High FinanceNight of the CaribouOne Village One War 198619881995 - J. E. Belliveau The Splendid Life of Albert Smith and the Women He Left BehindRunning Far In: The Story of ShediacThe Monctonians (Vol. 1)The Monctonians (Vol. 2)The headliners: behind the scenes memoirs"Crackie": the Sumner family business dynasty 197619771981198219841986 - Allison Mitcham Offshore islands of Nova Scotia and New BrunswickThree Remarkable MaritimersParadise or PurgatoryIsland KeepersAtlin, the last utopiaSigns of the timesThe angora goat: its history, management and diseasesTaku: the heart of North America's last great wildernessThe Best of Abraham GesnerPoetic voices of the Maritimes: a selection of contemporary poetry 1984198519861989198919901992199319951996 with Stephanie Mitcham Sexton with Theresia Quigley Jean Vanier Images of love, words of hope A network of friends, volume one : 1964-1973 : the letters of Jean Vanier to the friends and communities of L'Arche 19911992 James Cameron About PictoniansMore About PictoniansStill More About Pictonians 197919831985 - Watson Kirkconnell The Flavour of Nova ScotiaDesigns Upon the Trestle Board 19761981 Poetrynon-fiction Bridglal Pachai My Africa, My Canada 1989 - Alden Nowlan Nine Micmac Legends 1983 - Charles R. Saunders Sweat and Soul 1990 - Dorothy Perkyns The Mystery of the Hemlock RavineRachel's Revolution*The Mastodon MysteryPeril at Plover PointSignal Across the Sea 19861988199619911994 * Co-winner, Billson Award Vincent Durant Warhorse of Cumberland: The Life and Times of Sir Charles Tupper 1985 - Biography
See also Literature of Nova Scotia List of writers from Nova Scotia
References
External links ISBN database: Lancelot Press