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Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Petheric Press
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Description area
Dates of existence
[ca. 1967]-1984
History
Petheric Press was founded by William Hue McCurdy, a graduate of Dalhousie University and former president and owner of McCurdy Printing Co. Petheric was located in Halifax and was one of the first small publishing companies in Nova Scotia, active from about 1967 to 1984. The press specialized in Nova Scotia history books of non-fiction and in 1971 began publishing The Nova Scotia Historical Quarterly, which featured works by Thomas Raddall, W.R. Bird, and Evelyn Richardson, among others. In 1981 the Public Archives of Nova Scotia (PANS) assumed management of the serial and changed its name to The Nova Scotia Historical Review and its frequency to twice yearly.