If you enjoyed reading Masters of Their Own Destiny, you may be interested in finding out more about the inspiring story of those times and how it relates to today.

All the books listed here are available in libraries in Nova Scotia. If you can’t find one in your local library you can request an interlibrary loan, and the book will be sent to your library. A couple of the items can be read online by clicking on the red links.

Alexander, Anne. The Antigonish Movement: Moses Coady and Adult Education Today.  Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing, 1997.

Arnold, Mary Ellicott. Father Jimmy of Nova Scotia. Chicago: Co-operative League of  the U.S.A., [1960].

Boyle, George. Father Tompkins of Nova Scotia. New York: P.J. Kenedy, 1953.

Coady, Moses M. The Man from Margaree: Writings and Speeches of M.M. Coady, educator/reformer/priest. Edited by Alexander F. Laidlaw. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971.
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Delaney, Ida. By Their Own Hands: a Fieldworker’s Account of the Antigonish Movement. Hantsport, NS: Lancelot Press, 1985.

Knowledge for the People: a Call to St. Francis Xavier's College. Antigonish, N.S.: St. Francis Xavier University, 1921.
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Laidlaw, Alexander F. The Campus and the Community: the Global Impact of the Antigonish Movement.  Montreal: Harvest House, 1961.

Lotz, Jim. The Humble Giant: Moses Coady, Canada’s Rural Revolutionary. Ottawa:  Novalis, 2005.

Lotz, Jim and Michael R. Welton. Father Jimmy: the Life and Times of Father Jimmy Tompkins. Wreck Cove, NS: Breton Books, 1997.

Neal, Rusty. Brotherhood Economics: Women and Co-operatives in Nova Scotia.  Sydney, NS: UCCB Press, 1998.

Welton, Michael R. Little Mosie from the Margaree: a Biography of Moses Michael Coady. Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing, 2001.