RONALD RUDIN is Professor of History at Concordia University. Author of Founding Fathers: Champlain and Laval in the Streets of Quebec, 1878-1908 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003), he is currently working on both a book and documentary film dealing with the 2004 commemorative events marking the 400th anniversary of the first French settlement in North America. GREG MARQUIS is a member of the History Department at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. He is also a member of the research team for the Community-University Research Alliance Project “Saint John: the Industrial City in Transition”. STEVEN TURNER teaches the History of Science and Technology in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick. HEATHER MOLYNEAUX is a doctoral candidate at the University of New Brunswick examining the representation of women in the Canadian Medical Association Journal advertisements, 1950-70. GAIL CAMPBELL is Professor of History at the University of New Brunswick, and was the Atlantic Provinces representative on the executive of the Canadian Committee on Women’s History from 1990-93. SHEILA ANDREW just retired from the History Department at St. Thomas University. Her publications include The Development of Elites in Acadian New Brunswick, 1861-1881 (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Press, 1996) and she is currently writing a book on the changing world of 19th-century New Brunswick Acadian women. MARGARET CONRAD is the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies at the University of New Brunswick. She is currently building an Atlantic Canada Portal website as well as exploring the history of conflict and cooperation among the Atlantic Provinces since 1939. ELIZABETH McGAHAN is an historian and sessional lecturer at the University of New Brunswick (Saint John). She is the author of The Port of Saint John 1867-1927 (Saint John: National Harbours Board, 1982) and Whispers from the Past: Selections from the writings of New Brunswick women (Fredericton: Fiddlehead Poetry Books and Goose Lane Editions, 1986). SHIRLEY TILLOTSON has written on gender in relation to labour, leisure and the welfare state. She is a member of the History Department of Dalhousie University. PHYLLIS E. LeBLANC is a professor in the Department of History and Geography at the Université de Moncton. She teaches Maritime and Acadian history, has written on urban history and, more recently, on women’s history. FRANCES EARLY teaches history, women’s studies, cultural studies and peace and conflict studies at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was a founding member of the Canadian Women’s Studies Association and served in 1982 as its first president. LINDA KEALEY is a professor in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick. She is a former member of the History Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland. GILLIAN THOMPSON is a founder of the Women’s Studies Programme at the University of New Brunswick and a former Chair of the Department of History. She is a specialist in the history of the Jesuit Order in 18th-century France. ANDRÉ VERMEIRRE est Professeur retraité, Collège Saint-Laurent et Université de Montreal. Livre pertinent au sujet L’immigration des Belges au Quebec, éd. Septentrion, Sillery, 2001. ANDREW NURSE is Coordinator of the Academic Programme in Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. W.G. GODFREY is chair of the History Department at Mount Allison University. His recent publication is The Struggle To Serve: A History of the Moncton Hospital, 1895 to 1953 (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004). LEE WINDSOR is a doctoral candidate and the Military and Strategic Studies Programme Assistant in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick.