JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC REGION AUTUMN 2003

A C A D I E N S I S

REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE LA RÉGION ATLANTIQUE AUTOMNE 2003

Editor/Directeur

BILL PARENTEAU

Secretary/Secrétaire

BECKEY DANIEL

Assistant Editor

STEPHEN DUTCHER

French Language Editor

JOSETTE BRUN

Editorial Board/Comité de rédaction

T.W. ACHESON

PETER C. KENT

SHEILA ANDREW

ELIZABETH McGAHAN

PATRICIA BELIER

LIANNE McTAVISH

MARION BEYEA

GREG MARQUIS

GAIL CAMPBELL

MARC MILNER

MARGARET CONRAD

STEPHEN PATTERSON

JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER

SCOTT SEE

E.R. FORBES

WILLIAM SPRAY

DAVID FRANK

ERIC L. SWANICK

BURTON GLENDENNING

PETER TONER

GREGORY KEALEY

D.M. YOUNG

LINDA KEALEY

Editorial Advisory Board/Comité consultatif

P.A. BUCKNER

COLIN D. HOWELL

J. MURRAY BECK

GEORGE MacBEATH

FRANCIS W.P. BOLGER

IAN McKAY

SEAN CADIGAN

R.A. MacLEAN

J.M.S. CARELESS

D.A. MUISE

THOMAS J. CONDON

ROSEMARY OMMER

JEAN DAIGLE

JOHN G. REID

GWENDOLYN DAVIES

ERIC SAGER

JUDITH FINGARD

PETER B. WAITE

NAOMI GRIFFITHS

GRAEME WYNN

JAMES HILLER

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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We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada, through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP), toward our mailing costs. Articles in Acadiensis are indexed in/Les articles sont répertoirés dans: Canadian Periodical Index, America: History and Life, Historical Abstracts, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature), ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center), International Current Awareness Services, Canadian Index and Canadian Business and Current Affairs.

ACADIENSIS

VOL. XXXIII, NO. 1 AUTUMN/AUTOMNE 2003

JOHN G. REID

Viola Barnes, the Gender of History and the North Atlantic Mind

3

HEIDI MacDONALD

Doing More with Less: The Sisters of St. Martha (PEI) Diminish the Impact of the Great Depression 21

MARTIN AUGER ‘A Tempest in a Teapot’: Canadian Military Planning and the St. Pierre and Miquelon Affair, 1940-1942 47

DEBORAH STILES

The Gender and Class Dimensions of a Rural Childhood: Martin Butler in New Brunswick, 1857-1871

73

REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUES

MARGARET CONRAD What’s Governance got to do with it?

Two Investigations into the State of Atlantic Canada ............................................. 87

LIANNE McTAVISH

The Decline of the Modernist Museum ................................................................... 97

ROBERT G. ADLAM

Indigenous Rights, the Marshall Decision and Cultural Restoration ..................... 108

BIBLIOGRAPHY/BIBLIOGRAPHIE

Recent Publications Relating to the History of the Atlantic Region ..................... 114