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Sally Ross
Sally Ross co-authored with Alphonse Deveau The Acadians of Nova Scotia (Nimbus Publishing, 1992, ISBN 1-55109-012-0) which won both the Evelyn Richardson Memorial Literary Award and the Dartmouth Book Award in 1992.
Sally Ross has published numerous articles related to Acadian history including "Rebuilding a Society: The Challenges Faced by the Acadian Minority in Nova Scotia during the First Century after the Deportation, 1764-1867." It exists in both French and English and was published by the Nova Scotia Museum in the Curatorial Report Number 87 called Looking into Acadie, 1999.
In the spring of 2002 she wrote and translated an educational booklet titled Digues et aboiteaux / Dykes and Aboiteaux for the Société Promotion Grand-Pré (2002, ISBN 0-9730835-0-5). Click here to read WFNS' description of this book.
Selected List of her Literary TranslationsAcadian Mi-Carême: Masks and Merrymaking by Georges Arsenault, Acorn Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-894838-40-5. Acadian Christmas Traditions by Georges Arsenault, Acorn Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-89438-26-9. Acadian Legends, Folktales and Songs from Prince Edward Island by Georges Arsenault, Acorn Press, 2002. ISBN 1-894383-02-5 Acadia: Past and Present, by Régis Brun. Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999. ISBN 0-919691-89-7. Historical Guidebook of the Evangeline Region by Georges Arsenault, 1998. ISBN 2-9804117-1-x Courtepointes anciennes de la Nouvelle-Écosse by Scott Robson and Sharon MacDonald. Nova Scotia Museum and Nimbus Publishing, 1995. ISBN 1-55109-131-3 Real Life, a novel by France Daigle. House of Anansi Press, 1995. ISBN 0-887845614 4 chapters of Acadia of the Maritimes - ed. by Jean Daigle, Chaire d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1993. ISBN 2-9221-166089 The Fort of Beauséjour by Régis Brun. Éditions d'Acadie & Société du Monument Lefebvre, 1993. ISBN 2-7600-0211-x The Island Acadians, 1720-1980 by Georges Arsenault, Ragweed Press, 1989, reprinted1999. ISBN 0-921556-77-2 The Magic Rug of Grand-Pré by Réjean Aucoin and Jean-Claude Tremblay, Nimbus Publishing, 1989. Co-translated with Barbara LeBlanc. ISBN 0-921054-20-3 AwardsWinner of the 1992 Evelyn Richardson Memorial Literary Award Winner of the 1992 Dartmouth Book Award. You can send mail to Sally Ross |
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Born in Halifax, Sally Ross studied and worked in France for almost
10 years. In addition to a B.Sc. and an M.A. from Dalhousie University,
she has a Licence ès Lettres and her doctorate from the Université
de Tours, now called the Université François Rabelais.
After returning to Canada, she taught Acadian and Quebec history and
culture for 11 years and has been working as a writer, translator and
learning resource consultant since 1983. She worked as a textbook editor
at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China from 1998 to 2000.
The French translation of their book, Les Acadiens de la Nouvelle-Écosse,
was first published by Les Éditions d'Acadie in 1995 and was
reprinted by Nimbus Publishing in 2001 (ISBN 1-55109-391-X). It is currently
being used as the textbook for the new Grade 11 History course offered
in the Acadian schools of Nova Scotia.
Her latest book, Les écoles acadiennes en Nouvelle-Écosse,
1758-2000, traces the history of public schools in all the Acadian
regions of Nova Scotia and is based on historical documents and interviews
with Acadians. It is a factual, but moving story about the struggles
for French education in an Anglophone province. It was published by
the Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton
in 2001. ISBN 0-919241-61-1. Click 
In May 2003, Sally Ross received a Nova Scotia Museum Research Grant
to conduct a field survey of all the Acadian cemeteries in Nova Scotia
in order to document and photograph the grave markers of cultural,
linguistic and historical significance. In order to share the mass
of information gathered, she has subsequently published several articles
in French and given illustrated talks for the Heritage Trust of Nova
Scotia and various Acadian historical societies. Her article entitled
Acadian Cemeteries in Nova Scotia: A Survey was published
in the 2005 edition of the Annual Journal of the American Association
for Gravestone Studies (Markers XXII). It includes a list of all
the cemeteries surveyed and 20 photos by Deborah Trask. In her article
“Aperçus de quelques vieux cimetières,” published
in Port Acadie (vol. 10-12, 2007), she examines the history
and significant features of four of the oldest post-Deportation Acadian
cemeteries in Nova Scotia. Another illustrated article entitled Cimetières acadiens en Nouvelle-Écosse was posted in March 2009 on the web site of the Encyclopédie du patrimoine culturel de l’Amérique française: