1 Pam Perkins teaches eighteenth-century and Romantic-era literature at the University of Manitoba. She has published a number of articles on fictional and non-fictional eighteenth-century Scottish travels and is currently working on a SSHRC-funded project on North Atlantic travel narratives during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
2 John Phyne was born and raised in the “old city centre” of St. John’s. He is a professor in the Department of Sociology at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. For most of his career, he researched the global salmon aquaculture industry. The paper in this issue is part of a research project on the historical and urban sociology of the “old city centre” of St. John’s from 1950 to 1966.
3 Stephen Harold Riggins is Professor of sociology at Memorial University. He is the author of The Pleasures of Time; and editor of books on the sociology of Erving Goffman, ethnic minority media, others in discourse, and objects in consumer culture. He is presently completing a book about the first fifty years of sociology in Newfoundland and coediting a book with Roberta Buchanan of personal memoirs of Memorial University from 1950 to 1990.
4 Jeff Webb is an Associate Professor of History at Memorial University. He is past editor of Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, and is the author of The Voice of Newfoundland: A Social History of the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland, 1939-49 (2008). He is currently working on a history of the scholarship on Newfoundland society and culture from 1950 to 1985.