KAREN BALCOM is an assistant professor of History and Women’s Studies at McMaster University. Her recently completed Ph.D. dissertation (Rutgers 2002) deals with the history of cross-border adoption between Canada and the United States and the implications of this process for the development of child welfare systems in both countries. WILLEEN KEOUGH has recently completed a Ph.D. in History and continues, with her present research, to explore ethnicity and gender within early Irish-Newfoundland communities. She is currently a sessional instructor in Irish history with Memorial University of Newfoundland. JIM PHILLIPS is a professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, and is also cross-appointed to the Centre of Criminology and the Department of History. He is co-editor of three volumes in the Osgoode Society’s series Essays in the History of Canadian Law. His articles on Nova Scotia legal history have appeared in the Canadian Historical Review, Nova Scotia Historical Review, University of Toronto Law Journal and the Dalhousie Law Journal. ALLYSON N. MAY has a Ph.D. in History from the University of Toronto and has written on the English criminal trial (The Bar and the Old Bailey, 1750-1850, forthcoming, UNC Press, 2003). ROY BOURGEOIS est actuellement le Conseiller en sciences humaines de la section, Français langue maternelle, du Ministère de l’éducation de la Nouvelle-Ecosse. Il a dejà été chargé de cours au Centre universitaire de Moncton et a publié dans la Revue de l’Université de Moncton. Il a obtenu son doctorat en histoire a l’Université Laval en 1999. MARILYN GERRIETS is an economic historian and a professor in the Department of Economics at St. Francis Xavier University. She is interested in the origins of differences in the paths of development of the Maritimes and Central Canada. KRIS INWOOD is Professor of Economics and Director of International Development Studies at the University of Guelph. His research on the Canadian economy in the late 19th century has appeared in the Canadian Historical Review, the Journal of Economic History and other publications. JIM IRWIN is associate professor of Economics at Central Michigan University. His research on the economics of slavery and slave emancipation in the United States has appeared in journals such as Agricultural History and Explorations in Economic History. LUCA CODIGNOLA, Professor of History of Canada at the Università de Genova, was recently an Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University. His published works include Storia del Canada with Luigi Bruti-Liberati (1999) and L’Amérique du Nord française dans les archives religieuses de Rome, 1600-1922 with Pierre Hurtubise and Fernard Harvey (1999). He is completing a book on Roman Catholic networks in the North Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1756-1846 (McGill-Queen’s University Press). PETER KENT is a professor of History at the University of New Brunswick where he served from 1988 to 1999 as dean of the Faculty of Arts. He is author of The Pope and the Duce: The International Impact of the Latern Agreements (Macmillan, 1981) and The Lonely Cold War of Pope Pius XII: The Roman Catholic Church and the Division of Europe, 1943-1950 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002). He is currently working on a book on the Strax Affair at the University of New Brunswick in 1968-69. ALAN MacEACHERN is the author of Natural Selections: National Parks in Atlantic Canada, 1935-1970 (McGill-Queen’s, 2001). He teaches history at the University of Western Ontario.