CHRISTIAN BLAIS est titulaire d’une maîtrise en histoire de l’Université de Montréal. Il a participé au projet de reconstitution des débats de l’Assemblée législative du Québec en plus d’avoir été coauteur d’un ouvrage sur les lieutenants-gouverneurs du Québec. À titre d’historien, il travaille actuellement au Service des projets spéciaux de la Bibliothèque de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec. JUDITH FINGARD is working with John Rutherford on a history of the mental health movement in the Atlantic region. Her most recent book is a collection co-edited with Janet Guildford entitled Mothers of the Municipality: Women, Work and Social Policy in Post-1945 Halifax (2005). JOHN RUTHERFORD is a professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology in the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University. In addition to his interest in mental health history, he teaches and has conducted research in the neurosciences. TIMOTHY D. LEWIS received his doctorate from the University of New Brunswick in 2003 and has since held sessional appointments at several Maritime institutions, the most recent being at Cape Breton University. JEFF A. WEBB teaches history at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He has published many articles on the history of radio broadcasting. HEIDI MacDONALD is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Lethbridge. Her current research focuses on coming of age during the Great Depression in Canada. BRIAN PAYNE recently completed his doctoral degree in history at the University of Maine. His dissertation is entitled “Fishing a Borderless Sea: Environmental Territorialism in the North Atlantic, 1818-1910”. DAVID CREELMAN is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities and Languages at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. He has published articles on Maritime literature and Canadian fiction in the 20th century and his book, Setting in the East: Maritime Realist Fiction, was published by McGill-Queens in 2003. STEPHEN DUTCHER, the assistant editor of Acadiensis, teaches history at the University of New Brunswick as well as teaching online on cooperatives in the Faculty of Management at Saint Mary’s University. GREG MARQUIS teaches Canadian and criminal justice history at University of New Brunswick Saint John, where he is researching alcohol policy, urban development and historical commemoration. MIRIAM WRIGHT is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Windsor. IAN McKAY teaches history at Queen’s University. He is currently working on a book about public history and the politics of memory in 20th-century Nova Scotia. MONICA MacDONALD is a Ph.D. candidate in Communication and Culture at York University. W.G. GODFREY is presently Stiles-Bennett Professor of History and head of the department at Mount Allison University. SHEILA ANDREW is a recently retired professor from the History Department at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, where she taught Acadian history.