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THE SPRING 2023 ISSUE IS THE FIRST FULLY DIGITAL EDITION OF ACADIENSIS. We face a changing world when it comes to publishing and moving towards more accessible, digital, and open access formats. From a political perspective, the goal of Acadiensis has always been to publish the finest scholarship on the Atlantic region, while making space for new analytical paths. For more than 50 years, Acadiensis has continued to reach new audiences.We open this issue with a research article that examines Acadian histories of enslaving people of African descent. Colby Gaudet examines two prominent Acadian community leaders alongside well-known Loyalist enslavers in the early 18th century, offering an important perspective into
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/683/image/coversmallCo-editors’ Note2023-09-22text/htmlen-USCo-editors’ Note2023-09-222023TWOProject MUSE®127262024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-22Slavery and Black Labour in a St. Mary’s Bay Acadian Family, 1786–1840
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/907881
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ON 17 JUNE 1806 THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST Jean-Mandé Sigogne, “Missionary of the French Acadians in the township of Clare, County of Annapolis,” was summoned to the home of the ailing magistrate Amable Doucet. Sigogne then recorded the last will and testament of this esteemed Acadian elder. “[T]rusting in the Suffrages and prayers of the Holy Catholick and Apostolical Church,” Amable first pledged his soul to Christ his redeemer. He then requested that the dower rights of his wife, Marie, be fulfilled and his debts paid. In the will’s third article Amable bequeathed to “Said Mary [sic] my wife all my movable property and Jerome the Negro Slave.” The details of inheritance for Amable’s only surviving son and his
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/683/image/coversmallSlavery and Black Labour in a St. Mary’s Bay Acadian Family, 1786–18402023-09-22text/htmlen-USSlavery and Black Labour in a St. Mary’s Bay Acadian Family, 1786–18402023-09-222023TWOProject MUSE®1194892024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-22“Located on Land in Nova Scotia”: British Soldier Settlement after the Napoleonic Wars
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/907882
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IN THE SUMMER OF 1834, AN INDIGNANT “SOLDIER TURNED SETTLER” wrote to the Times of Halifax to dispute the editor’s claim that, given their “previous habits,” disbanded soldiers were “unfit for the prosecution of Agriculture.” Fourteen years earlier, the anonymous veteran of the Napoleonic Wars had been “located on land” in the Wellington military settlement near the Halifax end of a proposed road that was to stretch diagonally across the interior of the colony in order to provide a land route to Annapolis Royal (see Map 1). While admitting that the settlement had indeed “failed in a great degree,” the author laid the blame on the inaction of the colonial government. The settlers had been “located in the wilderness
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/683/image/coversmall“Located on Land in Nova Scotia”: British Soldier Settlement after the Napoleonic Wars2023-09-22text/htmlen-US“Located on Land in Nova Scotia”: British Soldier Settlement after the Napoleonic Wars2023-09-222023TWOProject MUSE®1344812024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-22“I am the first of my kind to see it”: Observation and Authorship in Mina Hubbard’s Performance as Labrador Explorer, 1905–1908
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/907883
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UNTIL WELL INTO THE 20TH CENTURY, those who lived outside of northern North America engaged with the region primarily as an imagined space.1 While developments in technologies of communication and transportation converged in the 1930s and 1940s to bring the North into more sustained contact with the rest of the continent, very few North Americans had access to direct, first-hand experience with northern peoples and environments.2 American polar explorer Robert Peary therefore captured most Canadians’ and Americans’ views of the North as fundamentally detached from their realm of experience when he described the northern explorer as a modern-day “Herakles,” bridging the geographical and imaginative gaps between
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/683/image/coversmall“I am the first of my kind to see it”: Observation and Authorship in Mina Hubbard’s Performance as Labrador Explorer, 1905–19082023-09-22text/htmlen-US“I am the first of my kind to see it”: Observation and Authorship in Mina Hubbard’s Performance as Labrador Explorer, 1905–19082023-09-222023TWOProject MUSE®1347352024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-22After the Escuminac Disaster: Poverty and Paternalism in Miramichi Bay, New Brunswick
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/907884
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IN JUNE 1969, BEFORE A CROWD NUMBERING 2,000 (in a town of fewer than 300 residents) and with dignitaries–both secular and religious–on hand to mark the occasion, a monument was inaugurated on the wharf at Escuminac, along Miramichi Bay in northeastern New Brunswick. Designed by the Acadian sculptor Claude Roussel, the Fishermen’s Memorial features three large figures of fishers dressed to go out to sea, holding their drift-nets.1 They Fishermen’s Memorial, Escuminac, NB–Sculpture by Claude Roussel.Source: Fonds Claude-Roussel, 245-169-0006, Centre d’études acadiennes Anselme-Chiasson, l’Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB.Miramichi Bay, New Brunswick.Source: Map by Sepideh Shahamati.represented the 35 men who died
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/683/image/coversmallAfter the Escuminac Disaster: Poverty and Paternalism in Miramichi Bay, New Brunswick2023-09-22text/htmlen-USAfter the Escuminac Disaster: Poverty and Paternalism in Miramichi Bay, New Brunswick2023-09-222023TWOProject MUSE®1113032024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-22“Our Story is Your Story”: Examining Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Black Commemorations with a Nova Scotian Focus
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INVITING VISITORS TO LEARN ABOUT BLACK HISTORY, public historian Cynthia Dorrington stated “Our story is your story and we would very much love you to come down and hear some of the untold stories.”1 Dorrington, the former manager of the Black Loyalist Museum on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, noted that the museum received increased interest in 2020 in the wake of Black Lives Matter initiatives throughout Canada and the United States. Darrington urged interested members of the public to engage with the untold stories of the Black Loyalists and the African diaspora, with the museum bringing them to life through the perspectives of their descendants. Elsewhere on the South Shore, the Fisheries Museum of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/683/image/coversmall“Our Story is Your Story”: Examining Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Black Commemorations with a Nova Scotian Focus2023-09-22text/htmlen-US“Our Story is Your Story”: Examining Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Black Commemorations with a Nova Scotian Focus2023-09-222023TWOProject MUSE®903112024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-22When the Personal is Historical
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/907886
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WHETHER CORRESPONDENCE, LIFE WRITINGS, or other personal records, first-person sources have long been a staple for scholars from biographers to historians of cultural production and social practices in particular places. The two books reviewed here–Ruth Compton Brouwer’s All Things in Common: A Canadian Family and Its Island Utopia and Michael Boudreau and Bonnie Huskins’s Just the Usual Work: The Social Worlds of Ida Martin, Working-Class Diarist1–share a number of common themes with key works in Atlantic Canadian history that primarily use private records. But these two books are distinctive in that they focus on a family during more than one generation and, in Brouwer’s case, during more than one century.2Many
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/683/image/coversmallWhen the Personal is Historical2023-09-22text/htmlen-USWhen the Personal is Historical2023-09-222023TWOProject MUSE®749722024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-22The Great Unravelling: New Histories of Deindustrialization
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DEINDUSTRIALIZATION IS A PROCESS, NOT AN EVENT. Historians have long understood this, although the field of deindustrialization studies is itself of more recent vintage.1 The socio-economic and political implications of colliery closures, the shutting of steelworks, and the loss of cod and lobster fisheries, papermills, and other large-scale primary industries has served as a catalyst for community activism and scholarly activity in Atlantic Canada, as elsewhere, for half a century. Writing in Acadiensis in 2000, as part of the famous debate on region and regionalism, Colin Howell recalled that one of the founding aspirations of the Acadiensis Generation was to make Canadians outside of Atlantic Canada “aware of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/683/image/coversmallThe Great Unravelling: New Histories of Deindustrialization2023-09-22text/htmlen-USThe Great Unravelling: New Histories of Deindustrialization2023-09-222023TWOProject MUSE®642462024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-09-22