The Island of Seven Cities
Paul Chiasson is a Yale-educated architect whose expertise is the history and theory of religious architecture. He was born on Cape Breton Island and is a direct descendent of the Acadians who were among the first European settlers in the New World. He has taught at Yale, at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. and at the University of Toronto. Chiasson's
discovery of the remains of an ancient Chinese settlement on Cape Breton Island is a direct result of his ancestral interest in the island's history and of his unique ability to understand the unusual architectural forms that the ruins represented - remains that had been previously misunderstood or overlooked.Paul Chiasson reads from his new book
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