People of Cove and Woodlot: Stories across 100 years of memories - Paperback

Leighton, Ted: - Ted (Frederick) Leighton O.C. is professor emeritus at the University of Saskatchewan and professeur associé at Université Sainte-Anne. From 1984 to 2015, he was a professor of veterinary pathology at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine and was the founding director of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative. Since retiring from academic science, he has focused on creative writing and local nature conservation projects. He lives in Bear River, Nova Scotia with his partner, the artist Eva McCauley.Leighton, Alexander: - Alec (Alexander) Hamilton Leighton MD was a research psychiatrist who, with his psychiatrist wife, Dorothea Leighton, pioneered the study of levels and distributions of mental illness in human populations and of medical anthropology. In 1948, they designed and initiated a long-term study of psychiatric epidemiology in Digby County Nova Scotia, the Stirling County Study, which continued for several decades. During World War II, Alec Leighton served in a US Naval Intelligence unit focused on Japan, which advised strongly against deployment there of nuclear weapons. He had academic appointments at Cornell University, Harvard University and Dalhousie University. He was especially proud of his election to membership in the American Philosophical Society and of being granted, based on knowledge and competence, a license as a back-county guide in the forests of Nova Scotia.McCauley, Eva: - Eva McCauley MFA is a painter and printmaker whose images of sky, water and shifting landscapes merge abstraction with figuration, and explore the ever-changing conditions of people and their environments. In her most recent landscape paintings she is increasingly concerned with the climate crisis, particularly its effect on ocean environments. She studied visual art at the Ontario College of Art and Design, the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo, and taught visual art at the University of Waterloo for 18 years. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work is in many public and private collections. Most recently the UNB Art Centre Permanent Collection and the Nova Scotia Art Bank (2022) have acquired her paintings. Eva has received numerous grants and awards, including a Nova Scotia Creation Grant. Her work can be viewed at evamccauley.com, and she is represented at the Agora Gallery in Stratford, Ontario: agoragallery.ca.She lives and works in Bear River, Nova Scotia.