JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC REGION SUMMER/AUTUMN 2008

ACADIENSIS

REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE LA RÉGION ATLANTIQUE ÉTÉ/AUTOMNE 2008

Editor/Directeur

Secretary/Secrétaire

BILL PARENTEAU

BECKEY DANIEL

Managing Editor

French Language Editor

STEPHEN DUTCHER

NICOLE LANG

Editorial Board/Comité de rédaction T.W. ACHESON

BONNIE HUSKINS

SHEILA ANDREW

GREGORY KEALEY

PATRICIA BELIER

LINDA KEALEY

MARION BEYEA

NICOLE LANG

MICHAEL BOUDREAU

PETER C. KENT

JOSETTE BRUN

ELIZABETH McGAHAN

GAIL CAMPBELL

LIANNE McTAVISH

MARGARET CONRAD

GREG MARQUIS JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER STEPHEN PATTERSON E.R. FORBES

SCOTT SEE

DAVID FRANK

GARY K. WAITE

BURTON GLENDENNING

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SEAN CADIGAN

IAN McKAY

J.M.S. CARELESS

D.A. MUISE

THOMAS J. CONDON

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JEAN DAIGLE

JOHN G. REID

GWENDOLYN DAVIES

ERIC SAGER

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PETER B. WAITE

NAOMI GRIFFITHS

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ACADIENSIS

VOL. XXXVII, NO. 2 SUMMER/AUTUMN 2008

ÉTÉ/AUTOMNE 2008

LINDA KEALEY

No More “Yes Girls”: Labour Activism among New Brunswick Nurses, 1964-1981 3

DANIEL C. GOODWIN

The Origins and Development of Wilfred Currier Keirstead’s Social and Religious Thought 18

MEAGHAN BEATON and DEL MUISE The Canso Causeway: Tartan Tourism, Industrial Development, and the Promise of Progress for Cape Breton 39

CAROLE WATTERSON TROXLER Re-enslavement of Black Loyalists: Mary Postell in South Carolina, East Florida, and Nova Scotia 70

JANE E. JENKINS

Politics, Pasteurization, and the Naturalizing Myth of Pure Milk in 1920s Saint John, New Brunswick 86

FORUM

JOHN G. REID

Foreword to “William G. Godfrey, 1941-2008: A Bibliography” ........................ 106

PATRICIA L. BELIER

William G. Godfrey, 1941-2008: A Bibliography ................................................. 109

DOCUMENT

NICOLAS LANDRY

Les Basques dans le golfe du Saint-Laurent se racontent ...................................... 117

REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUES

HARVEY AMANI WHITFIELD Reviewing Blackness in Atlantic Canada and the African Atlantic Canadian Disaspora ............................................................... 130

GEOFFREY HAYES

War and Historical Memory ................................................................................... 140