The Legend of Gladee's Canteen: Down Home on a Nova Scotia Beach
Business biography, Women biography, Food and drink, Canadian non-fiction, History
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
A history of the family-owned, Nova Scotia beach canteen and two sisters determined to show their father that women can also be successful.&“Everyone remembers the famous food at Gladee&’s Canteen, especially Gladee&’s fish and chips and her coconut cream pie.&”… —Calvin TrillinGladee&’s Canteen, several times voted as one of the ten best restaurants in Canada, was a special example of co-operative and communal spirit. At the centre of the operation were Gladee and her sister Flossie, supported by the extended Hirtle family. They offered a warm welcome and a memorable menu, in a setting brashly open to the forces of nature.The Legend of Gladee&’s Canteen tells the story of a popular Nova Scotia beach and a pioneer family who, against the odds, constructed a simple canteen at Hirtle&’s Beach in 1951 and ran it for forty years. The book draws on the author&’s family associations, personal memory, and the outlying stockpile of collective recollections—a tapestry of events woven through the evolutionary fabric of a small, relatively isolated Maritime coastal community.The era of Gladee&’s Canteen is remarkable story that takes place in a small coastal Nova Scotia community blessed with a spectacularly dynamic living beach. In its time, the Hirtle family and its sparkling enterprise thrived in spite of relative isolation, uncertain funding, and domestic demons. As a Nova Scotia epic, the success story of Gladee&’s Canteen mirrors the recent history of Hirtle&’s Beach, exemplifying the twists and turns locked up in legend.&“A Maritime tale of family success and love. . . . History lovers should be sure to pick this one up off the shelves.&” —Atlantic Books