JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC REGION SPRING 2002

A C A D I E N S I S

REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE LA RÉGION ATLANTIQUE PRINTEMPS 2002

Editor/Directeur

RUSTY BITTERMANN

Secretary/Secrétaire

BECKEY DANIEL

Assistant Editor

LORRAINE COOPS

French Language Editor

JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER

Editorial Board/Comité de rédaction

T.W. ACHESON

ELIZABETH McGAHAN

SHEILA ANDREW

LIANNE McTAVISH

PATRICIA BELIER

GREG MARQUIS

D.G. BELL

MARC MILNER

MARION BEYEA

WILLIAM PARENTEAU

GAIL CAMPBELL

STEPHEN PATTERSON

JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER

SCOTT SEE

GREGG FINLEY

WILLIAM SPRAY

E.R. FORBES

ERIC L. SWANICK

DAVID FRANK

D.G. THOMPSON

BURTON GLENDENNING

PETER TONER

PETER C. KENT

D.M. YOUNG

MARGARET McCALLUM

Editorial Advisory Board/Comité consultatif

P.A. BUCKNER

COLIN D. HOWELL

J. MURRAY BECK

GEORGE MacBEATH

FRANCIS W.P. BOLGER

COLIN B. MacKAY

SEAN CADIGAN

IAN McKAY

J.M.S. CARELESS

R.A. MacLEAN

THOMAS J. CONDON

D.A. MUISE

MARGARET CONRAD

ROSEMARY OMMER

JEAN DAIGLE

JOHN G. REID

GWENDOLYN DAVIES

ERIC SAGER

JUDITH FINGARD

G.F.G. STANLEY

NAOMI GRIFFITHS

PETER B. WAITE

JAMES HILLER

GRAEME WYNN

Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region is published twice a year, in the autumn and in the spring, by the Department of History of the University of New Brunswick. The Editorial Board welcomes the submission of manuscripts, in either English or French. All correspondence should be sent to: Acadiensis Campus House University of New Brunswick Fredericton, N.B.

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We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada, through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP), toward our mailing costs. Articles in Acadiensis are indexed in/Les articles sont répertoirés dans: Canadian Periodical Index, America: History and Life, Historical Abstracts, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature), ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center), International Current Awareness Services, Canadian Index and Canadian Business and Current Affairs.

ACADIENSIS

VOL. XXXI, NO. 2 SPRING/PRINTEMPS 2002

KAREN BALCOM

Scandal and Social Policy: The Ideal Maternity Home and the Evolution of Social Policy in Nova Scotia, 1940-51 3

WILLEEN KEOUGH

The Riddle of Peggy Mountain: Regulation of Irish Women’s Sexuality on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860 38

JIM PHILLIPS and ALLYSON N. MAY Female Criminality in 18th-Century Halifax 71

ROY BOURGEOIS

De croque-mort à entrepreneur de pompes funèbres : La Maritime Funeral Directors’ Association et la montée du professionnalisme au début du 20e siècle

97

MARILYN GERRIETS Agricultural Resources, Agricultural Production and Settlement at Confederation 129

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KRIS INWOOD and JIM IRWIN Land, Income and Regional Inequality: New Estimates of Provincial Income and Growth in Canada, 1871-1891

157

REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUES

LUCA CODIGNOLA

North American Discovery and Exploration Historiography, 1993-2001: From Old-Fashioned Anniversaries to the Tall Order of Global History? ............ 185

PETER KENT

The Unrealized Potential of Canada’s Universities ............................................... 207

ALAN MacEACHERN Voices Crying in the Wilderness: Recent Works in Canadian Environmental History ............................................... 215

BIBLIOGRAPHY/BIBLIOGRAPHIE

Recent Publications Relating to the History of the Atlantic Region ..................... 227