JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC REGION WINTER/SPRING 2010

A C A D I E N S I S

REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE LA RÉGION ATLANTIQUE HIVER/PRINTEMPS 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 des notes critiques BECKEY DANIEL MICHAEL BOUDREAU

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

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

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 sub -mission of manuscripts, in either English or French. All correspondence should be sent to: Acadiensis Campus House University of New Brunswick Fredericton, N.B.

E3B 5A3

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

E3B 5A3

Single copy/un seul numéro: $9.95 ISSN 0044-5851 Publications Mail Registration No. 08079

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada, through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP), toward our mailing costs.

ACADIENSIS

VOL. XXXIX, NO. 1 WINTER/SPRING 2010

HIVER/PRINTEMPS 2010

JAMES L. KENNY and ANDREW G. SECORD

Engineering Modernity: Hydroelectric Development in New Brunswick, 1945-1970 3

SHIRLEY TILLOTSON

Relations of Extraction: Taxation and Women’s Citizenship in the Maritimes, 1914-1955 27

JACOB REMES

In Search of “Saner Minds”: Bishop James Morrison and the Origins of the Antigonish Movement 58

GREG MARQUIS

Confederation’s Casualties: The “Maritimer” as a Problem in 1960s Toronto 83

MICHAEL BOUDREAU “Delinquents Often Become Criminals”: Juvenile Deliquency in Halifax, 1918-1935

108

KIM KLEIN

Paths to the Assembly in British North America: New Brunswick, 1786-1837

133

REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUES

MARCEL MARTEL

Interpréter les années 1960 : le triomphe de la nouvelle gauche? ........................... 158

CHANTAL RICHARD

Remembering Our Roots: Narratives about the Past, Present, and Future of Acadie ........................................ 164