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About The Acadiensis Blog

The Acadiensis Blog is a place for Atlantic Canadian historians to share their research with both a scholarly and general audience. We welcome submissions on all topics Atlantic Canadian. If you are interested in contributing to the blog, please contact Acadiensis Digital Communications Editor Corey Slumkoski at corey.slumkoski@msvu.ca.

Over the Causeway, Stories are Told: Studying Cape Breton Out-migration History as an Out-migrant of Cape Breton

Posted on February 14, 2019

By Dana Campbell Every Cape Bretoner knows the heartache of leaving home – or, of having a loved one leave home. While the Sydney steel plant and the numerous coalmines use to prosper, most of the heavy industry in the … Continue reading →

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Writing Stories about the History of Canadian Medical Malpractice Law

Posted on February 4, 2019

By R. Blake Brown  Every historian hopes that their work will engage and interest the public. However, when I told friends and family the topic of my first book – a history of the jury system in nineteenth-century Canada – … Continue reading →

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In Appreciation of Beckey Daniel

Posted on January 25, 2019

By Gail Campbell The retirement of Beckey Daniel at the end of this month [ed. note: Today is Beckey’s last day at Acadiensis] marks the end of an era in the history of Acadiensis. For nearly forty years, Beckey has … Continue reading →

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Reimagining the Creation: The ‘Missing Indigenous Link’ in the Origins of Canadian Hockey

Posted on January 18, 2019

By Paul W. Bennett Few subjects in Canadian sport arouse as much passion as debating the origins of ice hockey, Canada’s mythical national pastime.  Hockey fans, hobbyists, and even a few sports scholars have been known to “mix it up” … Continue reading →

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Sara Spike reviews Pam Hall’s Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge: Excerpts from Chapters I and II (St. John’s: Breakwater Books, 2017)

Posted on January 10, 2019

Pam Hall. Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge: Excerpts from Chapters I and II (St. John’s: Breakwater Books, 2017). By Sara Spike What does knowledge look like? Artist and ethnographer Pam Hall offers a compelling model in Towards an Encyclopedia … Continue reading →

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For the Duration: Don MacGillivray (1942-2018)

Posted on November 30, 2018

By David Frank It is hard to know where to start, but let me try by mentioning two of the people Donnie helped to rescue from the obscurity of local history. Archibald Russell, a labourer from Conception Bay, was one … Continue reading →

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New Issue of Journal of New Brunswick Studies/Revue d’études sur le Nouveau-Brunswick

Posted on November 27, 2018

The editorial board of the Journal of New Brunswick Studies/Revue d’études sur le Nouveau-Brunswick (JNBS/RÉNB) is pleased to announce the release of its latest issue. The new issue can be accessed at http://stu-sites.ca/jnbs JNBS/RÉNB is an online, multi-disciplinary journal that … Continue reading →

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Lisa Pasolli reviews Laurel Lewey, Louis J. Richard, and Linda Turner, New Brunswick before the Equal Opportunity Program: History through a Social Work Lens (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018)

Posted on November 14, 2018

Laurel Lewey, Louis J. Richard, and Linda Turner. New Brunswick before the Equal Opportunity Program: History through a Social Work Lens (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018). By Lisa Pasolli New Brunswick’s Program of Equal Opportunity ushered in dramatic reforms … Continue reading →

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“bad characters”: The Execution of George & Rufus Hamilton in Fredericton, 1949

Posted on November 7, 2018

by Michael Boudreau The execution of George and Rufus Hamilton in Fredericton at 2:00am on 26 July 1949, the last execution in New Brunswick’s capital, underscores Constance Backhouse’s assertion that the legal system “played a principal and dominant role in … Continue reading →

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The Concert Led Zeppelin Never Gave: The Lessons of the Strawberry Fields Festival

Posted on October 31, 2018

By Greg Marquis For a few weeks in 1970, pop music fans on both sides of the Canada-United States border were excited by the prospects of a ‘second Woodstock,’ a multiple-day outdoor music festival that would include some of the … Continue reading →

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