JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC REGION AUTUMN 1998

A C A D I E N S I S

REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE LA RÉGION ATLANTIQUE AUTOMNE 1998

Editor/Directeur

DAVID FRANK

Secretary/Secrétaire

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

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

ALICE R. STEWART

JUDITH FINGARD

PETER B. WAITE

JAMES HILLER

GRAEME WYNN

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ACADIENSIS

VOL. XXVIII, No. 1 AUTUMN/AUTOMNE 1998

History, Native Issues and the Courts: A Forum JOHN G. REID

Introduction

WILLIAM C. WICKEN R. v Donald Marshall Jr., 1993-1996 STEPHEN E. PATTERSON Historians and the Courts D. G. BELL

Historians and the Culture of the Courts 3

YVES OTIS et BRUNO RAMIREZ Nouvelles perspectives sur le mouvement d’émigration des Maritimes vers les États-Unis,

1906-1930

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MARJORY HARPER

Cossar’s Colonists: Juvenile Migration to New Brunswick in the 1920s

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RESEARCH NOTE/NOTE DE RECHERCHE

LAURIE C. C. STANLEY-BLACKWELL and JOHN D. BLACKWELL Graffiti and Sacred Spaces: Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Dorchester, N.B. ......................................................66

REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUES

IAN McKAY

After Canada: On Amnesia and Apocalypse in the Contemporary Crisis.................76 NANCY B. BOUCHIER Canadian Sport History.....................................................98 WILLIAM J. BUXTON and CATHERINE McKERCHER Newspapers, Magazines and Journalism in Canada: Towards a Critical Historiography ..........................................................................103 A. A. MacKENZIE The History of St. Francis Xavier University..........................127 ERIC TUCKER The Road from Westray: A Predictable Path to Disaster?.......................................132

BIBLIOGRAPHY/BIBLIOGRAPHIE

Recent Publications Relating to the History of the Atlantic Region .......................140