JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC REGION SUMMER/AUTUMN 2010

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REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE LA RÉGION ATLANTIQUE ÉTÉ/AUTOMNE 2010

Co-editor/Codirecteur Co-editor/Codirectrice JOHN G. REID JANET GUILDFORD

Managing Editor/ french Language Editor/

Directeur de la rédaction Rédactrice francophone STEPHEN DUTCHER NICOLE LANG

Review Essay Editor/ Secretary/Secretaire

Responsable de notes critiques BECKEY DANIEL MICHAEL BOUDREAU

Editorial Board/Comité de rédaction T.W. ACHESON BONNIE HUSKINS SHEILA ANDREW GREGORY KEALEY JERRY BANNISTER LINDA KEALEY PATRICIA BELIER NICOLE LANG MARION BEYEA PETER C. KENT MICHAEL BOUDREAU ELIZABETH McGAHAN JOSETTE BRUN GREG MARQUIS GAIL CAMPBELL SASHA MULLALLY MARGARET CONRAD ANDRES NURSE JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER BILL PARENTEAU GWENDOLYN DAVIES STEPHEN PATTERSON E.R. FORBES SCOTT SEE DAVID FRANK GARY K. WAITE BURTON GLENDENNING

Editorial Advisory board/Comité consultatif P.A. BUCKNER GEORGE MacBEATH J. MURRAY BECK IAN McKAY FRANCIS W.P. BOLGER D.A. MUISE SEAN CADIGAN ROSEMARY OMMER THOMAS J. CONDON GRAEME WYNN JEAN DAIGLE

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ACADIENSIS

VOL. XXXIX, NO. 2 SUMMER/AUTUMN 2010

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RONALD RUDIN Making Kouchibouguac: Acadians, the Creation of a National Park, and the Politics of Documentary Film during the 1970s 3

TINA LOO Africville and the Dynamics of State Power in Postwar Canada 23

SUSAN NEWHOOK Six Degrees of Film, Social, and Cultural History: The Fogo Island Film Project of 1967 and the “Newfoundland Renaissance”

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PETER L. TWOHIG The “Celebrated Indian Herb Doctor”: Francis Tumblety in Saint John, 1860

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PETER LUDLOW Searching for the Past, Writing for the Present: Charles Ryle Fay and Newfoundland’s Contested Past 89

REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUES

CECILIA MORGAN Making Heroes, Selling Heritage: Commemoration and History-Making in 19th- and 20-Century Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

DAVID B. MARSHALL The Return of Denominational History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121