Announcements

CFP: Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum

31 March 2025

Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum

Call for Papers, Twelfth Annual Workshop

Friday, July 25, 2025

Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick

Deadline: May 2, 2025

The Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum (NEAR-EH) brings together a group of scholars exploring the environmental history of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States.

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Release of Acadiensis 53, no. 1

12 February 2025

We are excited to announce the release of the latest edition of Acadiensis, Vol. 53, No. 1!

In this issue scholars Keith Grant, Nicole Gilhuis, Carli LaPierre, Anthony Dickinson, and Chesley Sanger contribute research articles exploring the complexities of identity and race in early Nova Scotia, the challenges of economic diversification in mid-20th-century Newfoundland, and the role of French cartography in shaping imperial imaginings.

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The Latest from the Blog: Willow Grove’s Eliza Taylor and Early Photography in New Brunswick, 1839-1872 by Kelann Currie-Williams

10 February 2025

In the thirty-three years between slavery’s abolition in the British Empire and the signing of the British North America Act (later renamed the Constitution Act in 1982), at least six major photographic processes had been introduced and fervently embraced in what would become the settler-colonial state of Canada...

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Les droits linguistiques des francophones du Nouveau-Brunswick depuis l’affaire Louis Mailloux de 1875 à Caraquet

15 January 2025

In January 1875 the Acadian Community of Caraquet witnessed a tragic event, costing the lives of the young Louis Mailloux and the militia man John Gifford from the Miramichi. The Municipality of Caraquet wishes to commemorate the 150th anniversary of this dark day by organizing a one-day Conference on the 15h of May at the Village Historique Acadien in Bertrand, near Caraquet.

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