Lancelot Press

It specialized in non-fiction titles, many of which were of a regional nature centered on Maritime Canada, in the fields of local history, spirituality and personal memoirs.

The business was founded by Reverend William Pope (1923-2010),[1] a United Church minister, near Hantsport, Nova Scotia.

[2][3][1] Many well-known writers in the region published with Lancelot, including Douglas How, Bridglal Pachai, Alden Nowlan and Dorothy Perkyns.

The poet Margaret Avison published several titles with Lancelot including No Time (1989) which won the Governor General's Award for Poetry.

His work was published in the book Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer, which is today presented by the Robert Pope Foundation to first-year medical students across Canada.