DANNY SAMSON is an assistant professor in the Department of History at McGill University. He completed his M.A. at the University of New Brunswick and his Ph.D. at Queen’s University and has published Contested Countryside: Rural Workers and Modern Society in Atlantic Canada, 1800-1950 (Acadiensis Press, 1994). LUCA CODIGNOLA is a former Vatican researcher for the National Archives of Canada who teaches Canadian history at the University of Genoa. He has also taught at York and Laval Universities and served as a visiting professor at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. He has recently published L’Amérique du Nord française dans les archives religieuses de Rome, 1600-1922 (Éditions de l’IQRC, 1999), with Pierre Hurtubise and Fernand Harvey. KATHRYN CARTER received her doctorate in English from the University of Alberta and is now teaching Canadian studies at Duke University. She has completed an anthology of diary excerpts by women in Canada, which is forthcoming next year from the University of Toronto Press. DEREK JOHNSON is in the rural studies doctoral programme at the University of Guelph, where he is completing a dissertation based on ethnographic research conducted in fishing communities on the coast of Gujarat, India. Senior Archivist at Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, BARRY CAHILL has published numerous articles on Nova Scotia legal and social history. He has recently completed a biography of James McGregor Stewart and is currently preparing an edition of the memoirs of Frank Covert and a biography of Carleton Stanley. JAMES W. St.G. WALKER is a professor of history at the University of Waterloo. His most recent book is ‘Race’, Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada (Osgoode Society and Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997). He is currently working on the movement for racial equality in Canada since the Second World War. A frequent contributor to Acadiensis, COLIN HOWELL is a member of the Department of History at Saint Mary’s University. He is the author of Northern Sandlots: A Social History of Maritime Baseball (University of Toronto Press, 1995). JAMES L. KENNY is currently teaching Canadian history at the Royal Military College of Canada. He completed his M.A. at the University of New Brunswick and his Ph.D. at Carleton University and has held a postdoctoral fellowship at Queen’s University. BARBARA KELCEY completed her Ph.D. in history at the University of Manitoba and has published ‘A Great Movement Underway’: Women and the Grain Growers’ Guide (Manitoba Record Society, 1996). MARILYN GERRIETS is a member of the Department of Economics at St. Francis Xavier University and specializes in economic history. She has published several articles in Acadiensis and is currently studying agricultural resources and manufacturing development in the Maritimes. SERGE CÔTÉ est professeur a l’Université du Québec à Rimouski, dans les programmes en sociologie et en développement régional. Il a publié dans la Revue de l’université de Moncton, Égalité et la Revue canadienne des sciences régionales et a contribué auxs ouvrages Trouble in the Woods: Forest Policy and Social Conflict in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick (Acadiensis Press, 1992) et L’Acadie en 2004 (Éditions d’Acadie, 1996).