JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC REGION AUTUMN 2001

A C A D I E N S I S

REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE LA RÉGION ATLANTIQUE AUTOMNE 2001

Editor/Directeur

DAVID FRANK

Secretary/Secrétaire

BECKEY DANIEL

Assistant Editor

LORRAINE COOPS

French Language Editor

JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER

Editorial Board/Comité de rédaction

T.W. ACHESON

ELIZABETH McGAHAN

SHEILA ANDREW

LIANNE McTAVISH

PATRICIA BELIER

GREG MARQUIS

D.G. BELL

MARC MILNER

MARION BEYEA

WILLIAM PARENTEAU

RUSTY BITTERMANN

STEPHEN PATTERSON

GAIL CAMPBELL

SCOTT SEE

JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER

WILLIAM SPRAY

GREGG FINLEY

ERIC L. SWANICK

E.R. FORBES

D.G. THOMPSON

BURTON GLENDENNING

PETER TONER

MARGARET McCALLUM

D.M. YOUNG

Editorial Board/Comité de rédaction

P.A. BUCKNER

GEORGE MacBEATH

J. MURRAY BECK

COLIN B. MacKAY

FRANCIS W.P. BOLGER

IAN McKAY

J.M.S. CARELESS

R.A. MacLEAN

THOMAS J. CONDON

D.A. MUISE

MARGARET CONRAD

ROSEMARY OMMER

JEAN DAIGLE

JOHN G. REID

GWENDOLYN DAVIES

ERIC SAGER

JUDITH FINGARD

G.F.G. STANLEY

NAOMI GRIFFITHS

PETER B. WAITE

JAMES HILLER

GRAEME WYNN

COLIN D. HOWELL

Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region is published twice a year, in the autumn and in the spring, by the Department of History of the University of New Brunswick. The Editorial Board welcomes the submission of manuscripts, in either English or French. All correspondence should be sent to: Acadiensis Campus House University of New Brunswick Fredericton, N.B.

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Acadiensis: Revue d’Histoire de la Région Atlantique, publiée deux fois par an, en automne et au printemps, par le

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d’Histoire de l’Université du Nouveau-Brunswick. Le comité de rédaction sera heureux d’examiner tout manuscrit (en français ou en anglais). Pour tout renseignement s’adresser à: Acadiensis Campus House Université du Nouveau-Brunswick Fredericton, N.-B.

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ACADIENSIS

VOL. XXXI, NO. 1 AUTUMN/AUTOMNE 2001

W.G. GODFREY

Private and Government Funding: The Case of the Moncton Hospital, 1898-1953

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TIMOTHY D. LEWIS

Rooted in the Soil: Farm Family Persistence in Burton Parish, Sunbury County, New Brunswick, 1851-1901

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PETER L. TWOHIG “Local Girls” and “Lab Boys”: Gender, Skill and Medical Laboratories in Nova Scotia in the 1920s and 1930s

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BARRY CAHILL

Dismissal of a President: The Ordeal of Carleton Stanley at Dalhousie University, 1943-1945

76

RICHARD HARRIS

Flattered But Not Imitated: Co-operative Self-Help and the Nova Scotia Housing Commission, 1936-1973

103

FORUM

GRAEME WYNN

Thinking About Mountains, Valleys and Solitudes: Historical Geography and the New Atlantic History 129

REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUES

GREG MARQUIS

Going Public: Atlantic Canadian Academics and Popular History ....................... 146

JULIAN GWYN

Poseidon’s Sphere: Early Naval History in Atlantic Canada ................................ 152

ANDREW HOLMAN

Something Old, Something New: Canada and the American Civil War ............... 164

SEAN CADIGAN

Whose Fish? Science, Ecosystems and Ethics in Fisheries Management Literature since 1992 .................................................... 171

BIBLIOGRAPHY/BIBLIOGRAPHIE

Recent Publications Relating to the History of the Atlantic Region ..................... 196