J.M. BUMSTED is Professor of History and Fellow of St. John’s College, University of Manitoba. He has published many titles in Canadian history, including the recent Dictionary of Manitoba Biography (1999). He is now working on a history of the University of Manitoba. GORDON WINDER is a historical geographer at the University of Auckland, New Zealand with interests in industrial, urban and environmental issues. His recent publications, including a study of the 19th-century North American manufacturing belt in Economic Geography, are based on 11 years’ experience in Canadian universities. MICHAEL D. STEVENSON completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Western Ontario and has held a postdoctoral fellowship at Trent University. He has published in the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association and The Veterans Charter and Post-World War II Canada (1997). He is currently a contract researcher with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. A professor of history at Queen’s University, IAN McKAY is a frequent contributor to this journal and is currently preparing a study of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. Professeur d’histoire au campus d’Edmundston de l’Université de Moncton, JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER est l’auteur, avec Wendy Johnston et Réjean Ouellette, d’une synthèse d’histoire canadienne, Un passé composé: le Canada de 1850 à nos jours, dont le deuxième édition vient de paraître aux Editions d’Acadie. Il agit à titre de rédacteur de langue française de la présente revue depuis quelques années déjà. CARLA WHEATON is a doctoral candidate in history at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, where she is studying the development of a consumer society in St. John’s in the first half of the 20th century. ARTHUR J. RAY is a professor of history at the University of British Columbia. He has published numerous studies of aboriginal history, including Indians in the Fur Trade, of which a new edition appeared in 1998, and I Have Lived Here Since the World Began (1996). He has appeared as an expert witness in several court cases, including Delgamuukw v Regina. W.G. GODFREY is a professor of history at Mount Allison University. He is the author of Pursuit of Profit and Preferment in Colonial North America: John Bradstreet’s Quest (1982). W.M. DICK has recently completed 32 years at the Scarborough Campus of the University of Toronto, where he taught American history and, his favourite subject, labour and social history on a broad international scale. An associate professor at the Osgoode Hall Law School, JUDY FUDGE is conducting research on the legal regulation of women’s work. A professor of history at Athabasca University, ALVIN FINKEL is the author of Our Lives: Canada After 1945 (1997) and, with Clement Leibovitz, The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion (1997). FRITS PANNEKOEK is the former Director, Historic Sites for the Province of Alberta; he is currently Director, Information Resources at the University of Calgary, where he also teaches Museum and Heritage Studies.