{"product_id":"the-legend-of-gladee-s-canteen","title":"The Legend of Gladee's Canteen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Everyone remembers the famous food at Gladee's Canteen, especially Gladee's fish and chips and her coconut cream pie.\" — Calvin Trillin \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eGladee'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. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Gladee's Canteen\u003c\/i\u003e 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 in1951 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mossman, David","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Atlantic Non-Fiction","offer_id":49332059111648,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_2d871e19-2f06-4aa8-a4bf-c0edffc4979e.jpg?v=1773413420","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/the-legend-of-gladee-s-canteen","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}