JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC REGION SPRING 2000

A C A D I E N S I S

REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE LA RÉGION ATLANTIQUE PRINTEMPS 2000

Editor/Directeur

Secretary/Secrétaire

DAVID FRANK

BECKEY DANIEL

Assistant Editor

French Language Editor

RUSTY BITTERMANN

JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER

Editorial Board/Comité de rédaction T.W. ACHESON

MARGARET McCALLUM

SHEILA ANDREW

ELIZABETH McGAHAN

PATRICIA BELIER

STEPHEN PATTERSON

D.G. BELL

SCOTT SEE

MARION BEYEA

WILLIAM SPRAY

GAIL CAMPBELL

ERIC. L. SWANICK

GREGG FINLEY

D.G. THOMPSON

E.R. FORBES

PETER TONER

BURTON GLENDENNING

D.M. YOUNG

Editorial Advisory Board/Comité consultatif

GEORGE MACBEATH

J. MURRAY BECK

COLIN B. MACKAY

FRANCIS W.P. BOLGER

R.A. MACLEAN

J.M.S. CARELESS

D.A. MUISE

THOMAS J. CONDON

JOHN G. REID

MARGARET CONRAD

ERIC SAGER

JEAN DAIGLE

G.F.G. STANLEY

GWENDOLYN DAVIES

PETER B. WAITE

JUDITH FINGARD

GRAEME WYNN

JAMES HILLER

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ACADIENSIS

VOL. XXIX, NO. 2 SPRING/PRINTEMPS 2000

J.M. BUMSTED The Land Question on Prince Edward Island and the Quitrent Controversy of 1802-1806 3

GORDON M. WINDER Trouble in the North End: The Geography of Social Violence in Saint John, 1840-1860 27

MICHAEL D. STEVENSON Conscripting Coal: The Regulation of the Coal Labour Force in Nova Scotia during the Second World War

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IAN McKAY A Note on “Region” in Writing the History of Atlantic Canada 89

JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER «L’Acadie, c’est un détail»: Les représentations de l’Acadie dans le récit national canadien

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RESEARCH NOTE/NOTE DE RECHERCHE

CARLA WHEATON “The Trade in this Place is in a Very Critical State”: R.G. Dun & Company and the St. John’s Business Community, 1855-1874 ....... 120

REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUES

ARTHUR J. RAY Regina v Marshall: Native History, the Judiciary and the Public ......................... 138 W.G. GODFREY “The Peoples in Between”: Phips, Eddy and Acadie/Nova Scotia ........................ 147 W.M. DICK Sex and Class Revisited .......................................................................................... 156 JUDY FUDGE The Politics of Social Justice: Women’s Struggle for Equality and One Man’s Lament ...................................... 170 ALVIN FINKEL Competing Master Narratives on Post-War Canada .............................................. 188 FRITS PANNEKOEK Who Matters?

Public History and the Invention of the Canadian Past ......................................... 205

BIBLIOGRAPHY/BIBLIOGRAPHIE

Recent Publications Relating to the History of the Atlantic Region ..................... 218