Acadiensis

Current Issue

Vol. 54 No. 2 (2025)

Published 27 May 2026

One of Canada's leading historical journals, Acadiensis is devoted to the study of the Atlantic region and remains the essential source for reading and research in this area.

ACS/CHA/CCHA Conferences 2026

At the CCHA/ACS/CHA Joint Keynote Address, Dr. Edward MacDonald shared a message addressing the history of regional studies, the essentiality of local lenses, and the critical work of historians in piecing together stories of the past.

Visit Acadiensis at the CHA Expo

Acadiensis looks forward to seeing you at the CHA 2026 book expo at McDougall Hall, UPEI, beginning June 1st! We hope you’ll come by for a visit.

Release of Acadiensis 54, no. 2

We are pleased to announce the release of Acadiensis, Vol. 54, No. 2!

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Peter L. Twohig, Sasha Mullally

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A Note from the Co-Editors

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Peter L. Twohig, Sasha Mullally

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Note de la direction

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Articles

Greg Mitchell, Amanda Crompton

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Slavery in New France: Resistance and Enslavement of Southern Labrador Inuit

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David Tough

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Poverty Capitals, the Media, and the Agricultural and Rural Development Agency’s Machinery of Government in Northeastern New Brunswick and Eastern Ontario During the 1960s

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Review Essay / Note Critique

Andrew Nurse

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A “Swelling Visual Arts Landscape of Eastern Canada”: Recent Studies into Post-War Atlantic Canadian Art History

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Book Reviews / Comptes rendus

Greg Marquis

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Billy Johnson. Publishing Place: Transatlantic Modernity and Periodical Culture on Canada’s East Coast. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025.

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Titilola Aiyegbusi

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Tony Colaiacovo. Black History of Nova Scotia. Halifax: Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute, 2024.

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Caroline-Isabelle Caron

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Michelle Landry, Dominique Pépin-Filion et Julien Massicotte (dir.). L’état de l’Acadie : un grand tour d’horizon de l’Acadie contemporaine. Montréal, Del Busso, 2021.

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Laura Oland

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Hilary Doda. Fashioning Acadians: Clothing in the Atlantic World, 1650-1750. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023.

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For more concerning the journal’s history, see P.A. Buckner, “Acadiensis II” (1971) and David Frank, “Acadiensis, 1901 and 1999” (1999).