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.

George Castelle recently concluded a legal career in the U.S. and returned to his lifelong interest in Newfoundland and Labrador history. He received a degree in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also studied economics at the University’s Wharton School of Business. He received his law degree from the West Virginia University College of Law. His current research focusses on the social and economic conditions in Conception Bay in the early to mid-1800s.

Nicolas Landry est professeur titulaire en Histoire canadienne et acadienne au campus de Shippagan de l’Université de Moncton depuis 1991. Il a publié livres et articles scientifiques dans deux grands champs de recherche soit l’Histoire francophone du Canada atlantique à l’époque coloniale et celle de l’éducation chez les francophones du Nouveau-Brunswick durant le 20e siècle.

David Mitterauer is a PhD candidate in English at University of Western Ontario. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Linguistics at Paris Lodron University of Salzburg in Austria, and his Master of Arts in English at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He specializes in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Literary Theory.