Contributors
- Contributors
Pierre Anctil a occupé à partir de 1993 divers postes dans la fonction publique québécoise, dont au ministère des Relations avec les citoyens et de l’Immigration. Depuis juillet 2004 il est directeur de l’Institut d’études canadiennes à l’Université d’Ottawa. Il est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur la communauté juive Montréalaise, dont Le rendezvous manqué, les Juifs de Montréal face au Québec de l’entre-deux-guerres (1988) et Tur Malka, flâneries sur les cimes de l’histoire juive montréalaise (1997), ainsi que de plusieurs traductions du yiddish au français d’œuvres écrites à Montréal, dont Le Montréal juif d’autrefois (1997) et Le Montréal juif entre les deux guerres (2002), rédigés par Israël Medresh. Il a aussi signé un ouvrage sur le boulevard Saint Laurent intitulé : Saint-Laurent, la Main de Montréal (2002). Il s’intéresse présentement aux Mémoires d’un des fondateurs du réseau d’écoles yiddish de Montréal, Hershl Novak.
Pierre Anctil has held several administrative positions in the Québec government in recent years (1993–2004) and is currently the director of the Institute of Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa since July 2004. He has written several books on the Montreal Jewish community, including Le rendezvous manqué, les Juifs de Montréal face au Québec de l’entre-deux-guerres (1988), Tur malka, flâneries sur les cimes de l’histoire juive montréalaise (1997), and Saint-Laurent, Montreal’s Main (2002). The author has also translated in French the memoirs of Yiddish Canadian writers Israël Medresh, Simon Belkin, Hirsch Wolofsky and Sholem Shtern (1997–2006) and the poetry of Jacob-Isaac Segal (1992). He is currently working on the memoirs of Hershl Novak, one of the founders of Montreal’s Yiddish schools.
Ian Angus is currently Professor of Humanities at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of A Border Within and various other work on Canadian thought. See www.ianangus.ca .
Adam Crerar is a member of the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Neil S. Forkey is the author of Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier: Environment, Society, and Culture in the Trent Valley (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2003). He is a member of the Canadian Studies Program at St. Lawrence University.
Catherine Gidney is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo. She is the author of A Long Eclipse: The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University, 1920–1970 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004). [End Page 221]
Ailsa Henderson is an assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is the author of a manuscript on political culture in Nunavut, to be published by UBC Press.
J.I. Little is a member of the Simon Fraser University History Department. His most research publications examine the nature of colonial identity in nineteenth-century British North America.
Kurt Korneski is a postdoctoral fellow at Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Institute of Social and Economic Research. He is currently working on a comparison of colonial nationalism in Newfoundland and Canada in the late nineteenth century.
Jerald Paquette is associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario. His areas of research interests include education policy, educational finance and economics of education, and minority education policy, particularly Aboriginal-education policy. In addition to a long history of involvement with First Nations education, Dr. Paquette is one of the few non-Aboriginal educators in Canada to speak a First Nations language fluently. [End Page 222]
