page_title: Stanley, Nova Scotia
section_title: Alden Nowlan
hierarchical_section_title: Stanley, Nova Scotia / Alden Nowlan
caption_attribution_description: English: Cairn for Alden Nowlan, located in Stanley, Nova Scotia.
context_page_description: Stanley is a community located in the East Hants municipal district, Hants County, Nova Scotia. Stanley is most famous as the birthplace of the acclaimed Canadian poet Alden Nowlan.
context_section_description: Stanley is the birthplace of renowned writer Alden Nowlan. Nowlan won the Governor General’s Award for poetry, and he is ranked alongside Canada's great poets. Nowlan grew up exposed to violence, alcoholism and poverty in precarious family circumstances. Self-educated for much of his life, he dropped out of school in grade five. He taught himself to read by befriending a librarian at the Library in Windsor, Nova Scotia; a plaque in the Windsor library is dedicated to him.  He graduated as a teenager from a two-week program offered by the Folk School in the Kennetcook Hotel, Kennetcook, Nova Scotia (February 1953). First published at age 19, he went to work for the Hartland, New Brunswick Observer and later for the Saint John Telegraph-Journal.
caption: Cairn for Alden Nowlan in Stanley, Nova Scotia
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