DAVID FRANK is a professor of history at the University of New Brunswick. He is a former editor of Acadiensis and the author of J.B. McLachlan: A Biography (Toronto, 1999). He recently edited and wrote the introduction for George Vair’s The Struggle against Wage Controls: The Saint John Story, 1975-1976 (St. John’s, 2006). JEFFREY L. MCNAIRN is a member of the Department of History at Queen’s University, Kingston. His current research concerns the legal regulation of economic failure and the history of taxation in British North America. CAROLINE-ISABELLE CARON est professeure à Queen’s University où elle enseigne l’histoire du Québec et de l’Acadie. Ses recherches portent un regard de Janus sur la culture populaire des communautés acadiennes et québécoises en examinant leurs représentations du passé (mémoire, commémorations et légendes) et celle du futur (science-fiction). Son plus récent projet, en collaboration avec Lise A. Robichaud et dans le cadre des Grands mystères de l’histoire canadienne (mysterescanadiens.ca), explore la légende de Jérôme : l’inconnu de la Baie Sainte-Marie. LIANNE MCTAVISH is an associate professor of visual culture in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick. She has published widely on early modern visual culture, the history of medicine and museum theory and is currently completing a monograph entitled “Between Museums: Exchanging Objects, Values, and Identities, 1842-1950”. JOSHUA DICKISON has recently completed his MA thesis, “Making New Brunswickers Modern: Natural and Human Resource Development in Mactaquac Regional Development Plan 1965-1975”, and is currently employed with the University of New Brunswick libraries. PAUL B. WILLIAMS recently completed his doctoral dissertation in the Department of Geography at Queen’s University in Kingston, with a focus on the Little Dutch Church in Halifax, NS. He has worked as a professional archaeologist in Nova Scotia, Ontario, Wales and Italy and is presently teaching in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. JAMES K. HILLER is a member of the Department of History at Memorial University and a University Research Professor. JAMES BICKERTON is a professor of political science at St. Francis Xavier University. His research interests include federalism, regionalism, regional development and electoral politics in Canada. He is the author of Nova Scotia, Ottawa and the Politics of Regional Development (1990) and his coauthored books include Ties That Bind: Parties and Voters in Canada (1999), The Savage Years: The Perils of Reinventing Government in Nova Scotia (2000) and Freedom, Equality, Community: The Political Philosophy of Six Influential Canadians (2006). SEAN CADIGAN teaches in the Department of History and is the director of the Masters of Employment Relations programme at Memorial University. He is currently working with Peter Sinclair, Department of Sociology, Memorial University, on an oral history of the offshore oil industry in Newfoundland and Labrador. SCOTT W. SEE is Libra Professor and chair of the University of Maine’s Department of History. He is the author of The History of Canada (Westport, CT, 2001) and Riots in New Brunswick: Orange Nativism and Social Violence in the 1840s (Toronto, 1993; reprinted 1999). His current project is a book-length study of collective violence in 19th-century British North America.