ISBN 1-894898-15-7 - 48 pp - 6 x 9 - pb - $9.95 CAD
bxw photos, maps

JEAN PIERRE ROMA AND THE COMPANY OF THE EAST OF ISLE ST. JEAN

Non-fiction by Jill MacLean
Co-published with Three Rivers Roma Inc.

"One of the Island's best-known personalities from the French Regime . . . His writings contribute significantly to the natural and human history of the Island."

-- Georges Arsenault, author of
Acadian Legends, Folktales, and Songs
from Prince Edward Island

In the 1700s, Jean Pierre Roma brought settlers to carve an international trading empire out of the virgin forests of Isle St. Jean -- now known as Prince Edward Island. A successful entrepreneur in a thriving community, he saw all his accomplishments destroyed by privateers in 1745. Yet the story of Roma lives on as an inspiration and a cautionary tale to leaders and builders. This new edition of a monograph originally published in 1977 ensures that Roma is not forgotten.

During the four years poet Jill MacLean lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched Jean Pierre Roma's settlement at Trois Rivières. Her first collection, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. She now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia.

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