Lancelot Press was a Canadian

Canada

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 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, a United Church minister, near Hantsport, Nova Scotia

Hantsport, Nova Scotia

Hantsport is a rural Canadian town and seaport located in the western part of Hants County, Nova Scotia. Hantsport is located just south of the county boundary with Kings County, and sits on the west bank of the Avon River in a tidal estuary.The town is most best known for its history of...

. Responsibilities for its operation were shared with his wife Isabel. Between its founding and wrapping up, it published more than 200 titles. Many well-known writers in the region published with Lancelot, including Douglas How

Douglas How

Douglas George How was a Canadian journalist, magazine editor, and author. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba but after his father's death the family returned to Dorchester, New Brunswick where his mother was born and where Douglas grew up...

, Bridglal Pachai and Alden Nowlan

Alden Nowlan

Alden Albert Nowlan was a critically acclaimed Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright-History:Alden Nowlan was born into rural poverty in Stanley, Nova Scotia, adjacent to Mosherville, and close to the small town of Windsor, Nova Scotia, along a stretch of dirt road that he would later refer to...

 and Dorothy Perkyns. The poet Margaret Avison

Margaret Avison

Margaret Avison, OC was a Canadian poet who twice won Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Prize. "Her work has often been praised for the beauty of its language and images."-Life:...

 published several titles with Lancelot including No Time (1989) which won the Governor General's Award

Governor General's Award

The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields. The first was conceived in 1937 by Lord Tweedsmuir, a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction who created the Governor...

 for Poetry.

Many Lancelot Press titles remain in print through a publishing arrangement with Nimbus.

Robert Pope Foundation

The Popes wrapped up Lancelot Press in 1997 to focus on an new enterprise, the Robert Pope Foundation. 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: The Art of Robert Pope, 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

Richardson Award

The Richardson Award, also known as the Evelyn Richardson Memorial Literary Award, is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, to the best work of adult non-fiction published in the previous year by a writer from Nova Scotia. They were named to honour...

 in 1992.

Selected writers and works published

Writer	Titles	Year	Notes
Margaret Avison Margaret Avison Margaret Avison, OC was a Canadian poet who twice won Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Prize. "Her work has often been praised for the beauty of its language and images."-Life:...	sunblue A Kind of Perseverance No time* Not Yet but Still	1978 1984 1989 1997	* Winner, Governor General's Award for Poetry
Douglas How Douglas How Douglas George How was a Canadian journalist, magazine editor, and author. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba but after his father's death the family returned to Dorchester, New Brunswick where his mother was born and where Douglas grew up...	Canada's Mystery Man of High Finance Night of the Caribou One Village One War	1986 1988 1995	-
J. E. Belliveau	The Splendid Life of Albert Smith and the Women He Left Behind Running Far In: The Story of Shediac The Monctonians (Vol. 1) The Monctonians (Vol. 2) The headliners: behind the scenes memoirs "Crackie": the Sumner family business dynasty	1976 1977 1981 1982 1984 1986	-
Allison Mitcham	Offshore islands of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Three Remarkable Maritimers Paradise or Purgatory Island Keepers Atlin, the last utopia Signs of the times The angora goat: its history, management and diseases Taku: the heart of North America's last great wilderness The Best of Abraham Gesner Poetic voices of the Maritimes: a selection of contemporary poetry	1984 1985 1986 1989 1989 1990 1992 1993 1995 1996	with Stephanie Mitcham Sexton with Theresia Quigley
James Cameron	About Pictonians More About Pictonians Still More About Pictonians	1979 1983 1985	-
Watson Kirkconnell Watson Kirkconnell Watson Kirkconnell, was a Canadian scholar, university administrator and translator. He is well known in Iceland, Eastern and Central Europe and among Canadians of different origins for his translations of their national poetry, particularly the Hungarians, Ukrainians, Russians, Serbians,...	The Flavour of Nova Scotia Designs Upon the Trestle Board	1976 1981	Poetry non-fiction
Bridglal Pachai	My Africa, My Canada	1989	-
Alden Nowlan Alden Nowlan Alden Albert Nowlan was a critically acclaimed Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright-History:Alden Nowlan was born into rural poverty in Stanley, Nova Scotia, adjacent to Mosherville, and close to the small town of Windsor, Nova Scotia, along a stretch of dirt road that he would later refer to...	Nine Micmac Legends	1983	-
Charles R. Saunders Charles R. Saunders Charles R. Saunders also credited as Charles Saunders is an African American author and journalist currently living in Canada. During his long career, he has written everything from novels both fiction and non-fiction, to screenplays and radio plays.- Background :Saunders was born in Elizabeth,...	Sweat and Soul	1990	-
Dorothy Perkyns	The Mystery of the Hemlock Ravine Rachel's Revolution* The Mastodon Mystery Peril at Plover Point Signal Across the Sea	1986 1988 1996 1991 1994	* Co-winner, Billson Award Geoffrey Bilson Award The Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Readers is a Canadian literary award that goes to the best work of historical fiction written for youth each year...

External links

• ISBN database: Lancelot Press