Melvin Baker holds a PhD in history from the University of Western Ontario. Currently he is writing a biography of Sir William Coaker and a history of the Newfoundland salt codfish trade between 1908 and 1939. He is co-author (with Raymond B. Blake) of Where Once They Stood: Newfoundland’s Rocky Road Towards Confederation published in 2019 by the University of Regina Press.

Osvaldo Croci is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Memorial University. He has written extensively on Canadian and Italian foreign policies and on different aspects of the relationship between sport and politics, including an article on the role of sports in the development of a national identity in Newfoundland. He is currently working on a history of Association football in Newfoundland.

Calvin Hollett is a social and cultural historian particularly interested in popular religion. He is the author of Beating Against the Wind: Popular Opposition to Bishop Feild and Tractarianism in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1844–1876 and Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing with Ecstasy: The Growth of Methodism in Newfoundland, 1774–1874.

Peter Neary is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. His Alan Caswell Collier, Relief Stiff: An Artist’s Letters from Depression-Era British Columbia was published in March 2018 by UBC Press.