JOHN G. REID is a professor of history at Saint Mary’s University; his most recent book, co-authored with Emerson W. Baker, is The New England Knight: Sir William Phips, 1651-1695 (University of Toronto Press, 1998). WILLIAM C. WICKEN is a member of the Department of History at York University; he is studying the legal history of aboriginal societies and recently published a study of Mi’kmaq-Acadian relations in Vingt ans après (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1998). STEPHEN E. PATTERSON is professor of history at the University of New Brunswick; his current research focuses on Mi’kmaq and Maliseet encounters with colonial societies; one of his articles on this subject is republished in The Acadiensis Reader: Volume One (Third Edition, 1998). D.G. BELL teaches in the law faculty at the University of New Brunswick and specializes in the development of colonial law and institutions. YVES OTIS est étudiant au doctorat à l’Université de Montréal et prepare une thèse sur les choix et les stratégies de travail des familles rurales. BRUNO RAMIREZ est professeur au département d’histoire, Université de Montréal; il a publié nombreuses études, dont On the Move: French-Canadian and Italian Migrants in the North Atlantic Economy, 1860-1914 (McClelland and Stewart, 1991). MARJORY HARPER is Lecturer in History, University of Aberdeen. She has published several studies of Scottish emigration, including Emigration from Scotland between the Wars: Opportunity or Exile? (Manchester University Press, 1998). LAURIE STANLEY-BLACKWELL teaches history at St. Francis Xavier University and is writing a monograph on the history of deaf culture in 19th-century Maritime Canada. JOHN D. BLACKWELL is a senior reference librarian at Brandeis University, Boston. IAN McKAY teaches at Queen’s University and is a frequent contributor to this journal. He has recently edited For a Working-Class Culture in Canada: A Selection of Colin McKay’s Writings on Sociology and Political Economy, 1897-1939 (Acadiensis Press, 1996). NANCY BOUCHIER teaches sport history in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University; she recently edited a festchrift issue of the Sport History Review in honour of Alan Metcalfe. A member of the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University, WILLIAM J. BUXTON has published studies of Talcott Parsons, Harold Innis and the politics of knowledge. CATHERINE McKERCHER teaches in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University; she is co-author of The Canadian Reporter: News Writing and Reporting (Harcourt Brace, 1998). A. A. MacKENZIE taught for five years in the public schools of Nova Scotia and 30 years at Xavier College (now the University College of Cape Breton) and St. Francis Xavier University. In his retirement he is researching Gypsies, Celts and shipping and shipbuilding. ERIC TUCKER is a member of the law faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University and the author of Administering Danger in the Workplace: The Law and Politics of Occupational Health and Safety Regulation in Ontario, 1850-1914 (University of Toronto Press, 1990).