1 J. T. H. CONNOR (BSc, MA, MPhil, PhD, FRHistS), is John Clinch Professor of Medical Humanities and History of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine; he is also cross-appointed to the Department of History (Faculty of Arts) and to the Department of Biology (Faculty of Science). He has written widely on the history of medicine in 19th- and 20th-century North America and other topics; he recently co-edited a collection of essays (with Dr. Stephan Curtis) entitled Medicine in the Remote and Rural North, 1800-2000 in the Society for the Social History of Medicine Series published by Pickering and Chatto (2011). Email: jconnor@mun.ca
2 JOHN MANNION is a retired Professor of Geography, Memorial University. His field is cultural and historical geography, with particular emphasis on Irish migration and settlement in Newfoundland from 1700 to the present. Email: jmannion@mun.ca
3 MARK G. MCGOWAN is a Professor of History at the University of Toronto and Principal Emeritus (2002-11) at St. Michael’s College. He has published many award winning books and articles including The Waning of the Green: Catholics, the Irish and Identity in Toronto, 1887-1922; Michael Power: The Challenge to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier; and Death or Canada: The Irish Famine Migration to Toronto, 1847. A joint Irish and Canadian docudrama was produced based on Death or Canada. He is currently writing two books, one on Canada’s Irish Catholics and the Great War, and another on religion and broadcasting in Canada.
4 PETER NEARY is co-author (with Melvin Baker) of the Newfoundland and Labrador entry in the *Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs, *1999-2013.
5 HANS ROLLMANN, Professor of Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, has published widely in religious and intellectual history. Among his recent book publications are: Moravian Beginnings in Labrador: Papers from a Symposium held in Makkovik and Hopedale (2009); with Warren Lewis, Restoring the First-Century Church in the Twenty-first Century: Essays on the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement (2005); Labrador Through Moravian Eyes: 250 Years of Art, Photographs & Records (2002); with Thomas H. Olbricht, The Quest for Christian Unity, Peace and Purity in Thomas Campbell’s Declaration and Address: Texts and Studies (2000).