Author Archives: The Acadiensis Blog

Stephen Harold Riggins and Roberta Buchanan, eds. Creating A University: The Newfoundland Experience. (St. John’s: ISER Books, 2019). By Linda Kealey I opened this collection of 32 short essays with great interest as I spent 22 years teaching in Memorial … Continue reading →

Stephen Davidson. Birchtown and the Black Loyalist Experience From 1775 to the Present (Halifax: Formac Publishing Company Limited, 2019). By Bonnie Huskins This book is a fitting tribute to two groups of African-Nova Scotians: the black loyalists who established, in … Continue reading →

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 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/JNBS/index. JNBS/RÉNB is an online, multi-disciplinary journal that … Continue reading →

By Robyn Brown There once was a young woman gave birth to a baby while living in a small outport of Nova Scotia. Unmarried, she delivered alone in a bedroom of the house where she lived; no one in the … Continue reading →

By Peter L. Twohig When I heard that Michael died, I just wanted to hear his voice again. So I listened to a lecture he gave at Memorial University in 1983. The lecture series on Canadian and Working Class history … Continue reading →

2020 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference: Crossing Borders, Bridging Boundaries Call for Papers The Canadian-American Center and the Department of History at the University of Maine invite proposals for the 2020 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference to be held at the University … Continue reading →

By Keith Grant In the early decades of the nineteenth century, the circulation of books was a highly localized activity.[1] Although advances in steam, stereotyping, and stamps were taking place, before about 1840 in most places outside the metropole the … Continue reading →

CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Journal of Canadian Studies “Critical Perspectives on Cannabis in Canada” Guest Editors: Michael Boudreau and Sarah Hamill Deadline: December 1, 2019 For much of the twentieth century, recreational drugs, notably cannabis, have been seen … Continue reading →

By Sarah King The Atlantic Canadian perspective is often glaringly absent from national narratives on politics and history – including CBC documentaries like 2000’s Canada: A People’s History (for a thorough discussion of this, see Margaret Conrad’s (2001b) article in … Continue reading →

By Christo Aivalis Cecil Foster in They Call Me George offers readers an excellent piece of accessible writing and analysis that skillfully melds together the multifaceted histories of labour, diplomacy, politics, gender, race, empire, and culture. In so doing, Foster … Continue reading →