This article will apply food regime theory to an examination of the rise and fall of the apple industry in Nova Scotia between 1862 and 1980. From the 1860s until World War II, apples were a booming cross-Atlantic export business that continued the colonial bonds to Britain. But after the war, Britain developed its own domestic apple industry, and Nova Scotia apples failed to capture a loyal and secure market based on taste or quality. This led to the decline of the industry by the 1980s. Since that time, a new local apple industry based on taste and craft processing has arisen in Nova Scotia.  This article affirms the broad historical analysis of food regime theory, while drawing attention to the need for an ecological enhancement of the theory. 

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• Roberts-Stahlbrand, A., (2025), "Getting to the core of the matter: The rise and fall of the Nova Scotia apple industry, 1862-1980", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.165)

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1. apple industry
2. ecology
3. food regime
4. Nova Scotia
5. value-added

Original publication: Roberts-Stahlbrand, Anika. "Getting to the core of the matter: The rise and fall of the Nova Scotia apple industry, 1862-1980." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 3, no. 2, 2016, pp. 4-22. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.165. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.