JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC REGION SPRING 2003

A C A D I E N S I S

REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE LA RÉGION ATLANTIQUE PRINTEMPS 2003

Editor/Directeur

BILL PARENTEAU

Secretary/Secrétaire

BECKEY DANIEL

Assistant Editor

STEPHEN DUTCHER

French Language Editor

JOSETTE BRUN

Editorial Board/Comité de rédaction

T.W. ACHESON

PETER C. KENT

SHEILA ANDREW

ELIZABETH McGAHAN

PATRICIA BELIER

LIANNE McTAVISH

MARION BEYEA

GREG MARQUIS

GAIL CAMPBELL

MARC MILNER

MARGARET CONRAD

STEPHEN PATTERSON

JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER

SCOTT SEE

E.R. FORBES

WILLIAM SPRAY

DAVID FRANK

ERIC L. SWANICK

BURTON GLENDENNING

PETER TONER

GREGORY KEALEY

D.M. YOUNG

LINDA KEALEY

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

JEAN DAIGLE

ROSEMARY OMMER

GWENDOLYN DAVIES

JOHN G. REID

JUDITH FINGARD

ERIC SAGER

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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Acadiensis: Revue d’Histoire de la Région Atlantique, publiée deux fois par an, en automne et au printemps, par le

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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. XXXII, NO. 2 SPRING/PRINTEMPS 2003

WENDY MITCHINSON H.B. Atlee on Obstetrics and Gynaecology: A Singular and Representative Voice in 20th-Century Canadian Medicine

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GREG MARQUIS “A Reluctant Concession to Modernity”: Alcohol and Modernization in the Maritimes, 1945-1980 31

GEORGE PERRY “The Grand Regulator”: State Schooling and the Normal-School Idea in Nova Scotia, 1838-1855

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STEVEN HIGH

Working for Uncle Sam: The “Comings” and “Goings” of Newfoundland Base Construction Labour, 1940-1945 84

REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUES

JAMES OVERTON

Nature, Ideology, Parks and Policy in Atlantic Canada. ....................................... 108 DAVID FRANK Public History and the People’s History: A View from Atlantic Canada ............. 120 SACHA RICHARD Histoire de l’Acadie : ouvrage de synthèse ............................................................ 134

BIBLIOGRAPHIES/BIBLIOGRAPHIES

ERIC L. SWANICK, Wallace Brown: A Bibliography 1959 - 1999 .................... 140

Recent Publications Relating to the History of the Atlantic Region ..................... 152