Acadiensis

CFP: Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum

Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum

Call for Papers, Twelfth Annual Workshop

Friday, July 25, 2025

Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick

Deadline: May 2, 2025

The Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum (NEAR-EH) brings together a group of scholars exploring the environmental history of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States.

Release of Acadiensis 53, no. 1

We are excited to announce the release of the latest edition of Acadiensis, Vol. 53, No. 1!

In this issue scholars Keith Grant, Nicole Gilhuis, Carli LaPierre, Anthony Dickinson, and Chesley Sanger contribute research articles exploring the complexities of identity and race in early Nova Scotia, the challenges of economic diversification in mid-20th-century Newfoundland, and the role of French cartography in shaping imperial imaginings.

The Latest from the Blog: Willow Grove’s Eliza Taylor and Early Photography in New Brunswick, 1839-1872 by Kelann Currie-Williams

In the thirty-three years between slavery’s abolition in the British Empire and the signing of the British North America Act (later renamed the Constitution Act in 1982), at least six major photographic processes had been introduced and fervently embraced in what would become the settler-colonial state of Canada...