This issue opens with Matthew Hatvany and Donald Cayer’s geographical contribution toward a new understanding of Acadian settlement on Île Saint-Jean during the turbulent 18th century. With focus on a later period, Gaétan Migneault provides an in-depth analysis of local and federal relations as demonstrated through Campbellton’s seaport economy and the community’s devastating 1910 fire.
In a research note, Michael Poplyansky examines the perceptions priests Maurice LeBlanc and Léger Comeau held of communist regions they visited in other parts of the world, as documented in their journal entries of the 1970s and 1980s.
A “Present and Past” contribution by Gregory P. Marchildon sheds light on the history of health care systems in Atlantic Canada in order to provide perspective on current struggles and insights for moving forward.
Bonnie Huskins presents a timely review essay that comparatively critiques recent publications on Loyalist history by four leading scholars in the US and Canada. Other book reviews focus on topics of the Gulf and on Prince Edward Island’s agriculture and tourism, with analysis of Peter Clancy and Mario Levesque’s Environmental Governance in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (by Zachary A. Tingley), Joshua MacFadyen’s Time Flies (by Sasha Mullally), Edward MacDonald’s The Geography of Home (by David Creelman), and Alan MacEachern’s Becoming Green Gables (by Charles Ferris).
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