JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC REGION WINTER/SPRING 2011

A C A D I E N S I S

REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE LA RÉGION ATLANTIQUE HIVER/PRINTEMPS 2011

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

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ACADIENSIS

VOL. XXXX, NO. 1 WINTER/SPRING 2011

HIVER/PRINTEMPS 2011

MARK J. MCLAUGHLIN Green Shoots: Aerial Insecticide Spraying and the Growth of Environmental Consciousness in New Brunswick, 1952-1973 3

WILLIAM GILBERT Beothuk-European Contact in the 16th Century: A Re-evaluation of the Documentary Evidence 24

MIKE O’BRIEN Producers versus Profiteers: The Politics of Class in Newfoundland during the First World War 45

EDWARD MACDONALD A Landscape . . . with Figures: Tourism and Environment on Prince Edward Island

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REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUES

ERIN MORTON Views from Off-Centre: The Cultural Work of Film and Television Studies in Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

DONICA BELISLE Interrogating the State: Recent Writing in Canadian Women’s and Gender History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97