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The Evangeline Land
The Evangeline Land: Illustrated in Halftone
- Written and published A. L. Hardy, Kentville, Nova Scotia
- Circa 1900
- Printed in Grand Rapids, Michigan, James Bayne
This photographic booklet contains annotated half tone scenic photographs by A. L. Hardy showing Western Nova Scotian and the Annapolis Valley arranged along the route of the Dominion Atlantic from Yarmouth to Halifax. It presents a romantic rurla landscape theme based on the legend and literature of the Acadians as depicted in Longfellow's poem Evangeline.
It is quite similar to the series of photographic booklets The Land of Evangeline published by the Dominion Atlantc Railway which also used A. L. Hardy images. However The Evangeline Land was published and sold directly by A. L. Hardy.
The booklet was published in several editions, with slightly different selections of images. It first came out about 1900. At least one additional edition was published about 1905 which included two images the 1904 expansion of the Kentville Station.
The First Big Joggins Bridge with Digby in the background, circa 1900.
The Kentville Station and Freight Shed, photographed by A.L. Hardy, circa 1905.
