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WENDY MITCHINSON is a professor in the Department of History, University of Waterloo. She has written widely on the history of Canadian women and recently published Giving Birth in Canada, 1900-1950 (University of Toronto Press, 2002). GREG MARQUIS is a member of the History Department at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John and his latest publication is In Armageddon’s Shadow: The Civil War and Canada’s Maritime Provinces (Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies, Saint Mary’s University, 1998). GEORGE PERRY teaches in the School of Education, Acadia University. He is now writing a history of teacher education in Nova Scotia. STEVEN HIGH is a member of the History Department at Nipissing University and the author of Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America’s Rust Belt, 1969-1984 (University of Toronto Press, 2003). JAMES OVERTON is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland. He has published extensively on Newfoundland political economy and written many articles about tourism and parks. DAVID FRANK is a former editor of Acadiensis and the author of J.B. McLachlan: A Biography (James Lorimer,1999). He teaches Canadian history at the University of New Brunswick. SACHA RICHARD is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Ottawa. Her dissertation, titled “The Acadian Quiet Revolution”, examines the evolution of New Brunswick’s Acadian community between 1955-1980. A former bibliography editor and a member of the Acadiensis editorial board, ERIC SWANICK was Director of the New Brunswick Legislative Library and is now Head of Special Collections, W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University.