JEFFREY L. McNAIRN, a Canada Research Chair and member of the Department of History at Queen’s University, is currently researching the legal and cultural history of insolvency and imprisonment for debt in British North America. MATTHEW McRAE recently completed his master’s degree in history at Carleton University. Raised on Prince Edward Island, he currently resides in Manitoba where he works as a political aide for a Winnipeg city councillor. STEPHEN DUTCHER, the assistant editor of Acadiensis, teaches history at the University of New Brunswick as well as teaching online on co-operatives in the Faculty of Management at Saint Mary’s University. His current research examines – within the context of power theory and modernity – the quest of Mi’kmaq people in Nova Scotia from 1970 to 1998 for more control over the education of their youth. BONNIE HUSKINS is professor of Canadian history at the University College of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, British Columbia. She is currently on research leave and is teaching at the University of New Brunswick – Saint John. She is preparing a manuscript on the diaries and life of Ida Louise Martin. MICHAEL BOUDREAU is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, St. Thomas University. He is conducting research on social protest movements and human rights in New Brunswick and British Columbia during the 1970s. ANDREW NICHOLLS is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York College at Buffalo and author of The Jacobean Union: A Reconsideration of British Civil Policies Under the Early Stuarts (1999). LUCA CODIGNOLA is director of the Research Centre in Canadian Studies and the Age of European Expansion at the Università di Genova and Adjunct Professor of History at Saint Mary’s University. He recently edited Christopher Columbus’s Les journaux du premier voyage (2005) and his main field of research is the Roman Catholic Church in the North Atlantic area in the early modern era. JOHN REID is a member of the Department of History at Saint Mary’s University. He has recently published a biography of the historian Viola Florence Barnes (University of Toronto Press, 2005) and is co-editor with Stephen J. Hornsby of New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons (McGill-Queen’s, 2005). JEAN-FRANÇOIS MOUHOT is a doctoral candidate at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and teaching assistant (ATER) at the Université de Lille 2 (France). His dissertation “Les réfugiés acadiens en France (1758-1785): l’impossible réintégration ?” will be submitted shortly. RENÉE HULAN is the author of Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture (McGill-Queens, 2002) and editor of Native North America: Critical and Cultural Perspectives (ECW, 1999). She teaches at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax. JULIEN MASSICOTTE est doctorant en histoire à l’Université Laval. Ses recherches portent sur la construction identitaire de la collectivité acadienne, de 1881 à 1994. Il est également l’auteur d’un livre sur l’oeuvre théorique du sociologue Fernand Dumont: Culture et herméneutique, Québec, Éditions Nota bene, 2005 (à paraître). JOEL BELLIVEAU est professeur temporaire d’histoire au campus d’Edmundston de l’Université de Moncton. Il rédige actuellement, avec l’Université de Montréal, une thèse portant sur l’impact des mouvements étudiants des années ’60 et ’70 sur la culture politique des Acadiens. Il s’intéresse surtout aux thèmes de l’identité, des mouvements sociaux, de l’histoire des idées et des transformations socio-politiques, sur lesquels il a publié nombre d’articles.