[1] Harris' first novel, Mr Perkins, of Nova Scotia; or the European adventures of a would-be aristocrat, was published in 1891, about a character named Tom Perkins who ventures abroad from Nova Scotia to London and Paris and encounters confidence tricksters and an indifferent British aristocracy concerned only with its own interests.
[2] Again, the protagonists were Nova Scotians from Grand Pré who went abroad to New York and Boston, and the story is that of a romance overcoming an initial confounding caused by a false letter and a lovers' misunderstanding, ending in marriage.
[1] The intricately plotted tale ends with the characters on a return visit to Digby, made newly prosperous and having entered the steam age and gained electricity.
[1] Harris' fourth novel, Faith and friends, was published in 1895 and is the tale of two young lovers from Nova Scotia who go abroad to the West Indies and Boston before eventually reuniting years later on a river boat in America.
[4] It was part of a fad of tales about the Acadians in the final decades of the 19th century, that included Charles G. D. Roberts' The Forge in the Forest, Edward Payson Tenney's Constance of Acadia, Grace Dean Roger's Stories of the Land of Evangeline, and David Hickey's William and Mary: A tale of the Siege of Louisbourg.