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PIERRE DÉLÉAGE est chercheur au Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale (CNRS) de Paris. Il étudie les conditions de transmission et de stabilisation du savoir. Il est notamment l’auteur de Le geste et l’écriture: langue des signes, Amérindiens, logographies, Paris, Armand Colin, 2013, et Inventer l’écriture, Paris, Les belles lettres, 2013. GREGORY KENNEDY is an assistant professor in the Department of History and Geography at the Université de Moncton.  He specializes in the history of colonial Acadia and Canada – especially socioeconomic, demographic, and rural history – and his publications include articles in the Journal of Family History and Historical Methods. MICHAEL GAGNÉ received his master’s in public history from Carleton University. He is a public historian with a special interest in identity formation in the Maritimes and Ontario. He is also the author of “Our Open Spaces Link Us Together”: Greenspace and Community Identity in Alta Vista, 1950-2005, Bytown Pamphlet Series, Issue 77 (Ottawa: Historical Society of Ottawa, 2010). PETER LUDLOW is research director for the Holy Cross Historical Trust, which serves to encourage and facilitate research into the history of the Irish community in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is currently completing a biography of Archbishop James Morrison. MÉLANIE MORIN-PELLETIER est historienne de la Première Guerre mondiale au Musée canadien de la guerre depuis février 2012. Elle s’intéresse particulièrement à l’impact de la Grande Guerre sur les civils demeurés au pays et à la réintégration des vétérans dans la société civile de l’entredeux-guerres. Son premier ouvrage, Briser les ailes de l’ange. Les infirmières militaires canadiennes, 1914-1918, est paru chez Athéna Éditions en 2006. GREGORY P. MARCHILDON is Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Economic History at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina. He is the author of Health Systems in Transition: Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006) as well as Profits and Politics: Beaverbrook and the Gilded Age of Canadian Finance (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1996). NICOLE C. O’BYRNE is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick.  She is also a doctoral candidate in Law & Society at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria.  She has published a number of articles on federalism and Métis history.  ELIZABETH MANCKE holds the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies at the University of New Brunswick.  She is the author of The Fault Lines of Empire: Political Differentiation in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, ca. 1760-1830 (London: Routledge, 2004), and a co-author  of  John Reid et al., The “Conquest” of Acadia, 1710: Imperial, Colonial, and Aboriginal Constructions (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2004). DAVID MACKENZIE teaches history at Ryerson University. He is the author of several books, including Inside the Atlantic Triangle: Canada and the Entrance of Newfoundland into Confederation, 1939-1949 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986). His most recent book, with Patrice Dutil, is Canada 1911: The Decisive Election that Shaped the Country (Toronto: Dundurn, 2011). DOUG MUNRO is a New Zealand-based biographer and historian. He has a particular interest in auto/biographies of historians, and his major publication is The Ivory Tower and Beyond: Participant Historians of the Pacific (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009). He is also a co-author of Crisis: The Collapse of the National Bank of Fiji (Goolwa, AU: Crawford House Publishing, 2002) and is currently working on a history of the New Zealand Opera Company (1954-1971).