JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC REGION SPRING 1999

A C A D I E N S I S

REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE LA RÉGION ATLANTIQUE PRINTEMPS 1999

Editor/Directeur

DAVID FRANK

Secretary/Secrétaire

BECKEY DANIEL

Assistant Editor

RUSTY BITTERMANN

French Language Editor

JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER

Editorial Board/Comité de rédaction

T.W. ACHESON

MARGARET McCALLUM

SHEILA ANDREW

ELIZABETH McGAHAN

PATRICIA BELIER

STEPHEN PATTERSON

D.G. BELL

SCOTT SEE

MARION BEYEA

WILLIAM SPRAY

GAIL CAMPBELL

ERIC. L. SWANICK

GREGG FINLEY

D.G. THOMPSON

E.R. FORBES

PETER TONER

BURTON GLENDENNING

D.M. YOUNG

Advisory Board/Comité consultatif

GEORGE MACBEATH

J. MURRAY BECK

COLIN B. MACKAY

FRANCIS W.P. BOLGER

R.A. MACLEAN

J.M.S. CARELESS

D.A. MUISE

THOMAS J. CONDON

JOHN G. REID

MARGARET CONRAD

ERIC SAGER

JEAN DAIGLE

G.F.G. STANLEY

GWENDOLYN DAVIES

ALICE R. STEWART

JUDITH FINGARD

PETER B. WAITE

JAMES HILLER

GRAEME WYNN

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Articles in Acadiensis are indexed in/Les articles sont répertoirés dans: Canadian Periodical Index, America: History of Life, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature), International Current Awareness Services, Canadian Magazine Index and available on-line in the Canadian Business and Current Affairs Database.

ACADIENSIS

VOL. XXVIII, NO. 2 SPRING/PRINTEMPS 1999

P.D. CLARKE À la recherche de La Petite-Rochelle: Memory and Identity in Restigouche 3

B. ANNE WOOD Pictou Academy: Promoting “Schooled Subjectivities” in 19th-Century Nova Scotia 41

RUSTY NEAL Mary Arnold (and Mabel Reed): Co-operative Women in Nova Scotia, 1937-1939

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NOTES DE RECHERCHE/RESEARCH NOTES

NICOLAS LANDRY Processus d’inventaire des biens chez les gens de mer a l’Île Royale au 18e siècle........................................................................................ 71 JAY WHITE “God’s Ark”: Subscription Book Publishing and the Titanic .......................................................... 93

REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUES

DEBORAH GORHAM From Bonavista to Vancouver Island: Canadian Women’s History as Regional History in the 1990s............................... 119 ROBERT McINTOSH Constructing the Child: New Approaches to the History of Childhood in Canada....................................... 126 JAMES DOWNEY Protectorate to Province: Newfoundland, 1934-1957 ............................................. 141 GAIL R. POOL Rock of Ages on Edge: Newfoundland and Labrador ............................................ 153 FRANK STRAIN and HUGH GRANT What Can a Region Do? The Debate on Economic Development Options in Atlantic Canada..................... 167