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2014 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, May 1-3 (Draft)

THURSDAY

Pre-conference Workshop

9:00-11:30: Exploring Social Network Analysis in Atlantic Canadian History, Tilley

Hall 028, UNBF

Facilitated by Thomas Peace, Harrison McCain Visiting Professor, Department of

History and Classics, Acadia University

This workshop will introduce participants to a handful of open source tools for doing

Social Network Analysis as well as the basic premises of this approach and examples of

historical work that applies SNA. The workshop is designed primarily to provide a basic

introduction to the technology and serve as a forum to discuss the merits of applying this

approach to the history of Atlantic Canada. Participants must be registered for ACS

Conference.

For more information or to register contact Thomas Peace at tpeace@acadiau.ca.

Note: All Sessions will take place on the St. Thomas University campus in Brian

Mulroney Hall (BMH)

THURSDAY

Session 1: 1:30-3:00 (Thursday)

Panel 1.1 Reinscribing the Northeastern Landscape BMH 102

Mario Pelletier, St. Thomas University

Mapping Madawaska, 1783-1845: The Boundary Dispute and Alienation of

Maliseet Lands

Mark Landry, St. Thomas University

16th

-Century Cartographic Genocide in the Maritimes

Jason Hall, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

The Cartography of Champlain and the Dispossession of Maliseets: An

Investigation of Early 17th

-Century Visual Images of the St. John River

Chair: Andrea Bear Nicholas, St. Thomas University

Panel 1.2 Labour (and) Power BMH 103

Andrew Secord, St. Thomas University

The Earned Strategic Position: Integrating the New Brunswick Electric Power

Commission into U.S. markets, 1967-1974

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Joan McFarland, St. Thomas University

Stories about Labour and the Environment in New Brunswick

Michael Fleming, St. Thomas University

Roads Less Travelled: A Case Study of Resilience and Dependency in Locally-

owned Trucking Companies in Atlantic Canada

Chair: David Frank, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Panel 1.3 Refashioning the Rural BMH 202

Rebecca White, University of Maine, Orono

Under the Investigator’s Eye: Images of Rural Poverty in New Brunswick, 1940s-

1960s

Sara Spike, Carleton University

"sights worth looking at": Skilled Visions at Late 19th

-Century Nova Scotian

Agricultural Exhibitions

David Bent, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Women with a Vision: The Women’s Institute of Nova Scotia and the

Modernization of the Rural Home, 1913-1960

Chair: Daniel Samson, Brock University

3:00-3:15 BREAK

Session 2: 3:15-4:45 (Thursday)

Panel 2.4 Mediating Loyalists: Librarians and Historians BMH 202 (Sponsored by the Loyalist Research Network)

Gail Campbell, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

The Historian as Intermediary: Murray Young’s Interpretation of Jacobina

Campbell’s Diary, Taymouth New Brunswick, 1825-1845

Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick, Saint John

War Without End: James Hannay Confronts the American Revolution

Leah Grandy, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Loyalist Sources for Genealogists and Historians: the New Brunswick Court

Records and the Marianne Grey Otty Database

Chair: Bonnie Huskins, St. Thomas University

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Panel 2.5 Imagined Places, Images, and Climates in Atlantic Canada BMH 103

Scott Preston, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Moving Pictures of the Picture Province: Tourism Promotion Films in New

Brunswick (1905-1965)

Michael Perry, University of Maine, Orono

Landscapes of the Mind: Identity and Imagined Space in New Brunswick, 1824-

1867

Teresa Devor, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Atlantic Canadian Climate in the 19th Century: New Directions in Regional

Historiography and Comprehension

Chair: Michael Dawson, St. Thomas University

Panel 2.6 Who Owns the Voice? Acadian and Mi’kmaq Culture BMH 102

Jennifer Andrews, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Acadian Identities, Arcadian Dreams: Ted Dykstra's Evangeline

Michelle Paon, Dalhousie University

Acadians and their History as Portrayed in Recent English-language Young Adult

Novels

David Creelman, University of New Brunswick, Saint John

“The connection is there”: The Emergence of Mi’kmaq Literatures

Chair: Rachel Bryant, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton 4:45-5:00 BREAK

5:00-6:30 Gather at the Poets Corner in front of the Harriet Irving Library, UNBF

Poetry Reading by Mihku Paul, Member of the Maliseet Nation, author of

20th Century PowWow Playland

Moderator: Rachel Bryant, UNBF

6:30-8:00 Reception at Gail Campbell’s, Gregg Court (for Conference participants

only)

FRIDAY

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Session 3: 9:00-10:30 (Friday)

Session 3.7 Constables, Magistrates and Sheriffs: Three Centuries of Law Officers

in Atlantic Canada BMH 102

Jerry Bannister, Dalhousie University

Small Places and Petty Quarrels: the Legal and Social World of a Newfoundland

Magistrate, 1832-1840

Michael Boudreau, St. Thomas University

“he…lost his nerve and had to decline”: Sheriffs and Executions in 20th

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Century New Brunswick

Keith Mercer, Saint Mary’s University

Officers of the Court: Early Policing in Newfoundland, 1729-1812

Chair: Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick, Saint John

Panel 3.8 Samples of Re-Vision and Re-Cognition: Atlantic Regional Writing and

Publishing for Young People, 1950s-Present BMH 103

Sue Fisher, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

The Children’s Books of Fredericton’s Brunswick Press: An Early Study in

Regional Publishing

Andrea Schwenke Wyile, Acadia University

Narrating Troubles: Adolescent Boys, Anger, Death, and (In)justice in

Hold Fast, Pluto’s Ghost and Real Justice: Convicted for being Mi’kmaq, the

Story of Donald Marshall Junior

Helene Staveley, Memorial University

Hold Fast, Take Two: Representing Gothic Newfoundland in Novel and Film

Chair: Gwen Davies, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

10:30-10:45: BREAK

Session 4: 10:45-12:15 (Friday)

Panel 4.9 Crafting Art, Crafting Health: The Rise of Therapeutic Medicine BMH

102

Sasha Mullally, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Crafting a Healthy Middle Way: The Sisters of St. Martha and the Antigonish

Movement in the 1940s

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Susan Cahill, Nipissing University

Weaving on the Margins: Jessie Luther and Grenfell Hooked Rugs in early-

20th-century Newfoundland and Labrador

Erin Morton, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

“Not a Vacation, But a Hardening Process”: The Self-Empowerment Work of

Therapeutic Craft in Nova Scotia

Chair: Margaret Conrad, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Panel 4.10 Imagining an Orderly Society: Regulating Alcohol, People, and Ideology

BMH 103

Emily Burton, Dalhousie University

'Man and Horse': Public Houses of Entertainment and Alcohol Regulation on

Prince Edward Island, c.1758 – 1840

Hannah M. Lane, Mount Allison University

Boarders, Newlyweds, Servants and Students: Youth and Adulthood in South-east

New Brunswick, 1851-1861

Denis McKim, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

The Intensification of Empire: Nova Scotia’s ‘Loyalist Order Framework,’ 1776-

1848

Chair: Jerry Bannister, Dalhousie University

Panel 4.11 Grassroots Challenges to Leviathan BMH 202

Nicole O’Byrne, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

‘Robbing Peter to Pay Pierre?’: the Contested Legacy of the 1963 Byrne

Commission

Brian Foster, Mount Saint Vincent University & Karen Foster, Saint Mary’s University

Objectivity and Opportunities: Regional Disparity in National Economic Policy

Discourse from the Statistics Act (1948) to ACOA (1987)

David Banoub, Carleton University

James Domville and the Local Politics of Federal Patronage

Chair: Corey Slumkoski, Mount Saint Vincent University

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12:15-1:30 LUNCH

Presentation of “Walk a Mile in My Wetshoes,” by Tim Humes, part of the project team

reestablishing “Ancient Portage Trails of New Brunswick.” BMH 101

Session 5: 1:30-3:00 (Friday)

Panel 5.12 La question identitaire au Madawaska BMH 103

Philippe Volpé, Université d’Ottawa

Des représentations à la reconnaissance: le rôle des historiographes dans la

négation et l’affirmation de l’acadianité au Madawaska, 1950-2013

Nicole Lang, Université de Moncton, Edmundston

Lieux de mémoire et cérémonies commémoratives : les représentations de

l’Acadie au Madawaska

Julien Massicotte, Université de Moncton, Edmundston

«Madawaskayen, qui es-tu ?»: Armand Plourde, le Madawaska et l’Acadie

Chair: Jacques Paul Couturier, Université de Moncton, Edmundston

Panel 5.13 Halifax and St. John’s in the Sixties BMH 202

David Tough, Trent University

Ground Zero for Canada’s New Left?: the Student Union for Peace Action

(SUPA) and Community Organizing in Halifax, 1965-1967

Meaghan Beaton, Mount Allison University

Imagining the Modern and Sophisticated Postwar City: Halifax’s 1967

Aquarium Project

John Phyne, St. Francis Xavier University

Removal for Commercialization: the Clearance of the ‘Central Slum Area’ of St.

John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, 1964 to 1966

Chair: Andrew Nurse, Mount Allison University

Panel 5.14 The Loyalist Imprint on Atlantic Canada BMH 102

Koral Lavorgna, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Layering Loyalist Fredericton: Using Hannah Ingraham as a Guide to

Mapmashing

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Anette Rodrigues, University of Maine, Orono

Loyalists at Fort George Penobscot

Gwen Davies, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Loyalist Printers & Publishers in Shelburne, Nova Scotia: Newspapers as a

Barometer of Change & Outmigration: 1783-90

Chair: Denis McKim, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

3:00-3:15 BREAK

Session 6: 3:15-4:15 (Friday)

Panel 6.15 The Atlantic in Atlantic Canadian Literature BMH 102

Caitlin Charman, Memorial University

Time for a Sea Change?: Reimagining the Atlantic Ocean in Literary Studies and

Public Policy

Andrea Beverley, Mount Allison University

East Coast Women and Words: Feminism and Region over Three Decades

Chair: Linda Kealey, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Panel 6.16 Schools and Community: Visions for a New Generation BMH 103

Cynthia Wallace-Casey, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Re-imagining Heritage Communities: an Exploration of How Community

Museums can Assist Middle School Students in Deepening their Historical

Consciousness

Paul Bennett, Saint Mary’s University

Reversing Rural Decline: Schools, Communities and Nova Scotia’s Rural

Regeneration Movement, 2006-2013

Chair: Alan Sears, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Panel 6.17 The Place of Youth in Atlantic Canada BMH 202

Elisabeth Giessauf, University of Graz

“You have been a long time coming home”: the Motif of Return and its

Variations in Atlantic Canadian Literature

Katherine Bell, Wilfrid Laurier University

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Adolescence “at risk”: Narrating Sturm und Drang in the Changing Maritime

Landscape

Chair: Herb Wyile, Acadia University

4:15-4:30 BREAK

5:00-6:15 Film: Les aboiteaux (NFB,1955)

Commentary Herménégilde Chiasson (29th

Lt. Gov. of NB), U de M

Ronald Rudin, Concordia University

Moderator Chantal Richard, UNBF

6:30 Banquet in the Ballroom of the Student Union Building, UNB

Concert following by La Tour Baroque Duo from Saint John

SATURDAY

Session 7: 9:00-10:30 (Saturday)

7.18 Regulating the Resource Economy BMH 202

Suzanne Morton, McGill University

In the Same Boat?: Legal and Illegal Lobster Packing in the Maritimes, 1880s-

1930s

Bill Parenteau, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

The Great Depression and the Administration of Fish and Game Law in New

Brunswick

Daniel Banoub, University of Manchester

Making Fish: Deborah Wickwire’s “Cod” and the Political Economy of Cod

Production in Newfoundland and Labrador

Chair: Ed MacDonald, University of Prince Edward Island

Panel 7.19 From Chignecto to Beaubassin: The Creation of an Acadian Landscape

BMH 103

Thomas Peace, Acadia University

Transforming Chignecto: Acadian-Mi'kmaw Social Networks at the end of the

17th

Century

Stéphanie Pettigrew, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Jean Campagnard: Witch of Beaubassin or Marginal Outsider?

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Gregory Kennedy, Université de Moncton

Le cours de vie et l’expansion de la colonisation des marais en Acadie:

l’exemple de la deuxième génération de colons, 1671 à 1707

Chair: Charles Burke, Parks Canada

Panel 7.20 Religiosity and Community BMH 102

Ruth Compton Brouwer, King’s University College, Western University

“Prince Edward Island’s unique ‘brotherly love’ community”: Faith and Family,

Communalism and Commerce in B. Compton Limited, 1909-1947

Julielynne Anderson, Independent Researcher

Emma Stirling in amongst the “Radical Reformers”: How Local 19th

-Century

New Brunswick Newspapers can Change 21st-Century Images of a Child

Migration Proponent in the Maritime Provinces

Mary E. Doody-Jones, Independent Scholar

In His Own Words: the Transportation Trials of a Rural New Brunswick

Clergyman 1936-1940s

Chair: Keith Grant, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

10:30-10:45 BREAK

Session 8: 10:45-12:15 (Saturday)

Panel 8.21 Portraits of Acadian Identity in Atlantic Canada’s Past BMH 103

Denis Bourque, Université de Moncton et Chantal Richard, University of New

Brunswick, Fredericton

Représentations identitaires des Acadiens et des Acadiennes dans les Conventions

nationales acadiennes (1881-1937)

Carolynn McNally, McGill University

"Ces frères par le sang établis en Louisiane": Initial Contacts between the

Leaders of the Acadian Renaissance and Acadian Descendants in Louisiana,

1861-1925

Matthew Cormier, Université de Moncton

The Reciprocal Influence of Literature and Society in Acadian Writings from

Després to Daigle

Chair: Gregory Kennedy, Université de Moncton

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Panel 8.22 Aboriginal and Black Agency and Identity BMH 102

Mary Louise McCarthy, University of Toronto

Images of Identity in Atlantic Canada: Untangling the Roots - Black and Maliseet

Stephen Dutcher, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Mi’kmaq, Wulstukwiuk, and Loyalists: a Reconsideration of Power and Influence

in Early Colonial New Brunswick

Daniel Samson, Brock University

Missionaries, the Domestic, and the Improvement of Mi'kmaq Agriculture, 1820-

1860

Chair: Elizabeth Mancke, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Panel 8.23 Shifting Images of Science BMH 202

Robert Gee, University of Maine, Orono

Origins, Connectivity, and Exhaustibility: Northeastern Fisheries Policy and the

Principles of 19th

-Century Marine Science

Joshua MacFadyen, Western University

Research and Underdevelopment: Aerial Photography and Land Use Surveys in

Prince Edward Island, 1935-1971

Mark McLaughlin, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Combining “particularly extreme positions”: Entomological Research in New

Brunswick and the Integration of Theoretical and Empirical Ecology, 1945-1978

Chair: Suzanne Morton, McGill University

12:15-1:30 LUNCH

Session 9: 1:30-3:00 (Saturday)

Panel 9.24 Shifts in Acadian Identity BMH 103

Carlo Lavoie, Université de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard

Portrait de l’Acadie de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard par les éditoriaux du journal La

Voix acadienne

Katie MacLeod, Dalhousie University

Out-Migration for Industry: Acadian Identity Retention in Industrial Cape Breton

Chair: Chantal Richard, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

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Panel 9.25 Tainted Love: Learning to Love (in) the Desecrated, Defiled, and

Different Landscape of Contemporary Canadian Literature BMH 102

Alexander MacLeod, Saint Mary’s University

“I want to be gone through”: ‘Bad’ Sex and its (Dis)contents in the

Contemporary Literature of Atlantic Canada

Paul Chafe, Ryerson University

Pink, White, and Green: Queering Place and Place Myths in Contemporary

Newfoundland Fiction

Herb Wyile, Acadia University

“Landscape with Towel Thrown In”: the Environmental Turn in Atlantic-

Canadian Literature

Chair: Tony Tremblay, St. Thomas University

Panel 9.26 More Eclectic Than the Image: Irish, Jews and East/Central Europeans

in Cape Breton BMH 202

Sandy Balcom, Independent Scholar

Treason or Not: Irish Participation on Louisbourg Privateers, 1744

Ken Donovan, Independent Scholar

“From a Bad Jew: You Get a Worse Christian”: Jews in 18th

-Century

Louisbourg

Marcia Ostashewski, Cape Breton University

Complicating Images of Nova Scotia: East and Central European Communities

and Cultures of Cape Breton

Chair: John Reid, Saint Mary’s University

3:00-3:15 BREAK

Session 10: 3:15-4:45 (Saturday)

Panel 10.27 Capturing the Gritty Side of Life BMH 103

Peter Thompson, Carleton University

From Cape Breton to West Virginia: Examining Regional Identity in

“Cottonland” and “Oxyana”

Tom Halford, Memorial University

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A Re-Examination of Surveillance and the Writer as an Ethical Observer in

Michael Winter’s This All Happened: What Actually Happened?

Dawne Clarke, St. Thomas University

Is Resistance Futile?: Lila Young, Margaret MacNeil and Michel Foucault

Chair: Michael Boudreau, St. Thomas University

Panel 10.28 Praying and Playing: Women Shaping Atlantic Canadian Culture

BMH 102

Heidi MacDonald, University of Lethbridge

Rapture and Fracture: Mount Saint Vincent Motherhouse (Halifax) Mirrors the

turbulent 1950s to 1970s

Elizabeth McGahan, University of New Brunswick, Saint John

‘All Things Pass But Love Remains’: The Closing Decades of a Religious

Community

David G. Bell, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

The Music Teacher as Entrepreneur: Another View of Minnie Bell Adney

Chair: Scott See, University of Maine, Orono

Panel 10.29 Manifesting Authority in the British Empire BMH 202

Gary Campbell, Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society, UNBF

Rebellion can be Suppressed: The American Revolution in Western Nova Scotia

William R. Miles, Memorial University

Royal Navy Captains and Northeastern North America, 1660-1739: the Littoral

View

Gary Hughes, New Brunswick Museum

Hands Across the Water: the Odell and Hunter Families in the Second British

Empire, 1803-1842

Chair: Liam Riordan, University of Maine, Orono