Contributors
- Contributors
C. Lesley Biggs teaches in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research interests include studies of the body, the history of midwifery in Canada, and alternative healers, particularly chiropractors. STELLA STEPHANSON, along with her husband, Eric Stephanson (now deceased), has had a longstanding interest in the history of Icelanders and other settler communities in Saskatchewan. With her husband, Mrs Stephanson is a co-founder of the Vatnabyggd Icelandic Club of Saskatchewan. She is the mother of five children and six grandchildren.
Marie-Aimée Cliche est chargée de cours et chercheure associée au Département d'histoire de l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Grâce à une subvention du Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines du Canada, elle effectue des recherches sur « l'histoire du filicide au Québec, 1850-1970 ». Elle a écrit un livre intitulé Maltraiter ou punir? La violence envers les enfants dans les familles québécoises, 1850-1969, à paraître aux Éditions Boréal, de Montréal.
Benjamin Isitt is completing his PhD in Canadian history at the University of New Brunswick. Under the supervision of Dr Gregory S. Kealey, Isitt is specializing in the political history of the Canadian working class, with specific attention to the labour movement in British Columbia and social-democratic politics. Isitt has conducted extensive research on domestic unrest during the First World War and on Canada's military intervention in Siberia. His doctoral dissertation examines the transition from an 'old left' to a 'new left' in British Columbia in the decades following the Second World War, in relation to changes in the economic structure of the province. A recipient of the Canada Graduate Scholarship, awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC), Isitt resides in Victoria.
Carmela Patrias teaches in the Department of History at Brock University. Her publications include Patriots and Proletarians: Politicizing Hungarian Immigrants in Interwar Canada, and Discounted Labour: Women Workers in Canada, 1870-1939, co-authored with Ruth Frager. [End Page 380]
