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By Leah Grandy With a few breakthrough ideas, a group of people with the right skillset at the right place and time, and a dash of serendipity, the project which was to be known as “New Brunswick Loyalist Journeys” came … Continue reading →

by Chantal Richard The following is part two of a two-part blog post. Acadian politics and language Unlike the Saint John and Sackville papers, The Moncton Transcript tended to focus more on contemporary Acadians, reporting on the Conventions nationales acadiennes … Continue reading →

by Chantal Richard The following is part one of a two-part blog post. It is inspired from a paper I gave on 4 May 2018, at the Atlantic Canada Studies Conference in Wolfville, very close to historic Grand-Pré, the symbolic … Continue reading →

Recently the URL of the Labour History in New Brunswick project changed from http://www.lhtnb.ca to https://archives.gnb.ca/lhtnb/. Please adjust your bookmarks accordingly. By David Frank In a recent post Andrea Eidinger and Stephanie Pettigrew discussed the problem of maintaining legacies in … Continue reading →

by Jeffers Lennox The University of Toronto Press has generously allowed us to publish the following excerpt from Jeffers Lennox’s award-winning Homelands and Empires: Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, and Competition for Territory in Northeastern North America, 1690-1763. To talk about … Continue reading →

by Patrick Callaway The slow development of agriculture in Nova Scotia in the wake of the American Revolution created a conundrum for provincial and imperial officials.  The need for provisions linked the colony closer to the American states than was … Continue reading →

by Wanda Campbell The ocean is a central theme of Thurston’s non-fiction including Atlantic Outposts (1990), Tidal Life: A Natural History of the Bay of Fundy (1990), Against Darkness and Storm: Lighthouses of the Northeast (1993), The Nature of Shorebirds … Continue reading →

The blog will be going on a brief hiatus, but we will be back in September with new content. But before our hiatus, here is a Throwback Thursday post. One of the difficulties in editing the blog – perhaps the … Continue reading →

By Claudine Bonner The 1960s and 1970s was an era of transformation and awakening for many young people, and especially for the African-descended peoples across the Diaspora.[1] To date, most scholarship focuses on how the American Black Power movement served … Continue reading →

By Vicki S. Hallett, Ph.D., Department of Gender Studies, Memorial University As part of a larger project on Them Days that focuses on the story of, and stories in, the magazine as tools of decolonization and reconciliation, I engage with … Continue reading →