Professor Emeritus of History at the University of New Brunswick, T.W. ACHESON is no stranger to the readers of this journal. The author of Saint John: The Making of a Colonial Urban Community, he has, in recent years, turned his attention from the urban to the rural sector and is currently engaged in a major study of rural society in colonial New Brunswick. WILLIAM G. GODFREY is Professor of History at Mount Allison University and the author of Pursuit of Profit and Preferment in Colonial North America: John Bradstreet’s Quest. His article published in this volume is part of a larger study on the history of the Moncton Hospital. JOSETTE BRUN is a doctoral candidate at the University of Montreal. Her dissertation will examine the experience of widowhood in 18th-century New France, focussing specifically on survival strategies in two French colonial towns, Louisbourg and Québec. CHESLEY W. SANGER has published widely on aspects of the Newfoundland seal fishery, Arctic/Scottish whaling and the Newfoundland and Labrador shore-based whaling industry. He is an Honorary Research Professor of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland. A member of the Department of Biology, ANTHONY B. DICKINSON is also the Director of Project Operations, International Centre, at Memorial University. Presently he is researching various aspects of global whaling and sealing. T. STEPHEN HENDERSON is a Ph.D. candidate in history at York University. His dissertation will provide a cultural history of socialized medicine in Canada. MIKA ROINILA is currently teaching geography at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. His doctoral dissertation, completed at the University of Saskatchewan in 1997, is entitled “The Migration, Settlement and Ethnic Relations of Finland-Swedes in Canada”. Since completing his Ph.D. in Canadian-American History at the University of Maine in 1996, MATTHEW G. HATVANY has been a postdoctoral scholar at the Laboratoire de géographie historique at Laval University. There he is engaged in a comparative study of land tenure in the pre-industrial Northeast, specifically, a consideration of the similarities between the seigneurial system of post-conquest Quebec and the proprietary system of Prince Edward Island. JANET GUILDFORD and MICHAEL EARLE are senior research associates of the Beach Meadows Research Associates, Halifax, Nova Scotia. They have both had extensive experience teaching Canadian history survey courses.