The Maritimes: Tradition, Challenge & Change is a high school textbook used to teach students about the social conditions of the Maritimes. Every major aspect of the region is included--its natural resources and economy, its changing social and political life, and its unique cultural expressions. Often these come alive through the expreiences of the diverse array of Maritimers from all walks of life and from all parts of the region that appear in these pages. The Maritimes: Tradition, Challenge & Change is a unique picture of a region with a strong sense of tradition, facing many challenges, and undergoing change in every area of life.

In a powerful yarn of the apocalyptic decline of all that is green and natural, Sark of the Micmacs of Prince Edward Island becomes a messianic hero who fights vainly against the forces of "development" in the form of corrupt big business and government too enamoured of short-term gains to see the coming catastrophe.