W.G. GODFREY is Professor of History, Mount Allison University and a frequent contributor to Acadiensis and the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. He recently completed a history of the Moncton Hospital. TIMOTHY D. LEWIS is a doctoral candidate at the University of New Brunswick, where he prepared his M.A. thesis on the history of Oromocto. He has taught Canadian history at Mount Allison University. PETER L. TWOHIG is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine, Dalhousie University, where he is studying the professional roles of hospital workers. He is the author of Challenge and Change: A History of the Dalhousie School of Nursing, 1949-1989 (Fernwood Books, 1998). BARRY CAHILL is an independent scholar and archivist in Halifax. He has published The Thousandth Man: A Biography of James McGregor Stewart (University of Toronto Press, 2000) and is writing a biography of Carleton Stanley. RICHARD HARRIS teaches urban historical geography at McMaster University; he currently holds a British Academy Visiting Fellowship at University College, London where he is studying British colonial housing policy. His most recent book is Unplanned Suburbs: Toronto’s American Tragedy, 1900-1950 (Johns Hopkins, 1996). A frequent contributor to Acadiensis, GRAEME WYNN is head of the Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, where he recently completed a term as Associate Dean of Arts. His forthcoming work includes a chapter for Environmental History of New Zealand (Oxford University Press, 2002) as well as studies in Canadian environmental history. GREG MARQUIS is a member of the Department of History and Politics, University of New Brunswick, Saint John. He is the author of In Armageddon’s Shadow: The Civil War and Canada’s Maritime Provinces (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1998), which is now available in a paperback edition. He is currently researching the history of drink and alcohol policy in 20th-century Canada. Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa, JULIAN GWYN is the author of Excessive Expectations: Maritime Commerce and the Economic Development of Nova Scotia, 1740-1870 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1998). He recently contributed a chapter on women and property rights to Margaret Conrad and Barry Moody, eds., Planter Links: Community and Culture in Colonial Nova Scotia (Acadiensis Press, 2001). ANDREW HOLMAN teaches History and Canadian Studies at Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He is the author of A Sense of Their Duty: Middle-Class Formation in Victorian Ontario Towns (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000) and is currently studying Canadian-American borderlands history. Until recently a member of the Marine Affairs Programme and Department of History at Dalhousie University, SEAN CADIGAN is now director of the Public Policy Research Centre and a member of the Department of History at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. His publications include Hope and Deception in Conception Bay: Merchant-Settler Relations in Newfoundland, 1785-1855 (University of Toronto Press, 1995).