Rob MacNab: A Story of Old Pictou by Frank Baird, C.W. Jefferys

Witchcraft, raised dirks, skirling bagpipes, feisty preachers, and a protagonist’s lost identity all add to the drama of Rob MacNab, Frank Baird’s historical novel published in 1923 to celebrate the 150^th anniversary of the arrival of the ship Hector and Scottish settlers in Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1773. Written “to do, in a simple way, for old Pictou” what Sir Walter Scott, “in a grand way, did for old Scotland.” Rob MacNab also celebrates pivotal historical figures such as the Reverend James MacGregor and the Reverend Thomas McCulloch behind the mask of fiction. Rob MacNab is illustrated by famed Canadian artist C.W. Jefferys.