1 RAFICO RUIZ studies the relationships between mediation and social space – particularly in the Arctic and Subarctic – as well as the cultural geographies of natural resource engagements and the philosophical and political stakes of infrastructural and ecological systems. His work appears in the International Journal of Communication, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, and Communication +1, amongst others, and in August of 2015 he will take up the Roberta Bondar Postdoctoral Fellowship in Northern and Polar Studies at Trent University.

2 J.I. LITTLE is a member of the Simon Fraser University Department of History. He has been researching Canadian travel narratives and tourism literature, and his recent publications include “A Country Without a Soul: Rupert Brooke’s Gothic Vision of Canada,” Canadian Literature 219 (Winter 2013): 95-111, and “Travels in a Cold and Rugged Land: C.H. Farnham’s Quebec Essays in Harper’s Magazine, 1883-89,” Journal of Canadian Studies 47, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 215-45.

3 KEITH MERCER is a research associate with the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary’s University. He has published widely on the British Navy in the Canadian colonies, particularly on impressment and civil- military relations.

4 PHILIPPE VOLPÉ est doctorant en histoire à l’Université d’Ottawa. Il se spécialise en histoire des mouvements associatifs, des idées et des représentations.

5 PETER L. TWOHIG is a professor in the Department of History and the Atlantic Canada Studies program at Saint Mary’s University. His current research is on the organization of health care work since 1950.

6 JEFF A. WEBB is an associate professor of history at Memorial University. His study of social science and humanities research on Newfoundland culture, Observing the Outports, is forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press.

7 THOMAS PEACE is an assistant professor of history at Huron University College. His current primary research focuses on the diverse ways in which northeastern Indigenous peoples engaged with colonial colleges and day schools at the turn of the 19th century, and his other project examines how social network analysis can be used to better understand the relationships between 18th-century Mi’kmaw and Acadian communities.

8 SARAH GLASSFORD is an adjunct professor at the University of Prince Edward Island.  Her recent article is “Political Patriotism: How the Canadian Junior Red Cross and its Child Members Met the Challenge of the Second World War,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 7, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 219-42, and she is currently researching rural PEI women’s Second World War voluntary work through the Women’s Institutes.

9 ALAN GORDON is professor of history at the University of Guelph.  He has published on commemorations, living history museums, and the political uses of history.