Project MUSE®: Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region / Revue d’histoire de la region atlantique - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region / Revue d’histoire de la region atlantique.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 45, (2016) through current issueLatest Articles: Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region / Revue d’histoire de la region atlantiqueTWOProject MUSE®Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region / Revue d’histoire de la region atlantique1712-74320044-5851Latest articles in Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region / Revue d’histoire de la region atlantique. Feed provided by Project MUSE®A Note from the Co-Editors, and: Note de la direction
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971066
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THIS ISSUE OF ACADIENSIS MARKS ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT transition for the journal. Dr. Sasha Mullally rejoined the editorial team as co-editor in June 2025, having previously served in this role from 2012 to 2017. The entire editorial team is grateful that she will bring both her scholarly expertise and her keen leadership abilities to the journal. Indeed, these have already been on full display.Throughout its history, Acadiensis has had an expansive understanding of the Atlantic region, one that has included other geographic areas and conceptual approaches. The lead essay by Bernard Allaire, Nicolas Landry, and Brad Loewen is firmly in this tradition. This essay uses records of notary Jacques Cousseau from the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/683/image/coversmallA Note from the Co-Editors, and: Note de la direction2025-10-08text/htmlen-USA Note from the Co-Editors, and: Note de la direction2025-10-082025TWOProject MUSE®103732026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-08La pêche basque dans le golfe du Saint-Laurent : Une analyse de contenu des actes notariés de Jacques Cousseau, notaire à La Rochelle, 1602–1653
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971067
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Si la pêche à la morue semble un sujet bien connu des spécialistes, il manque toujours d'études approfondies de thèmes autres que le poisson et la vie à bord des navires. Peu d'études abordent en détail les armements, la logistique matérielle et humaine, les aspects socioéconomiques ou encore les flux financiers de ces campagnes de pêche. Ce sont ces aspects que nous aborderons dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle pour le port de La Rochelle, déjà un carrefour d'échanges européens et mondiaux depuis la fin du Moyen Âge. La présence de communautés nationales voire étrangères dans le port rochelais donne un cachet particulier à son commerce, où la morue occupait une place importante. C'est de cette dimension, et
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/683/image/coversmallLa pêche basque dans le golfe du Saint-Laurent : Une analyse de contenu des actes notariés de Jacques Cousseau, notaire à La Rochelle, 1602–16532025-10-08text/htmlen-USLa pêche basque dans le golfe du Saint-Laurent : Une analyse de contenu des actes notariés de Jacques Cousseau, notaire à La Rochelle, 1602–16532025-10-082025TWOProject MUSE®1049312026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-08Anticosti: Tourism, Industry, and Nature Construction on a Nordic, Peripheral Island
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971068
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Quebec's Anticosti Island is the largest and least-populated landmass within the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Figure 1). Despite a strategic location along the border with Quebec and Atlantic Canada, the island is little known within the region. With its 2023 selection as a World Heritage site for the "exceptional universal value" of its nature and culture, the necessity of integrating Anticosti into the larger regional literature is manifest.1 This was the objective as far back as 1979
Figure 1
Anticosti, a nordic, peripheral island on the borders of Quebec and Atlantic Canada.
Source: Map diagram drawn by the authors.
[AI Generated Alt Text] Map of eastern Canada and Gulf of St. Lawrence showing Gaspé region with
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/683/image/coversmallAnticosti: Tourism, Industry, and Nature Construction on a Nordic, Peripheral Island2025-10-08text/htmlen-USAnticosti: Tourism, Industry, and Nature Construction on a Nordic, Peripheral Island2025-10-082025TWOProject MUSE®2250132026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-08The Irving Whale and Environmental Governance in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971069
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THE IRVING BUSINESS EMPIRE, WHICH BESTRIDES Maritime Canada, was central to one of the most severe pollution incidents in the history of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In this event, Irving was joined by the Government of Canada that struggled politically for more than a quarter century with the aftermath of the incident. The Irving corporate conglomerate is a formidable presence and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, fringed by five provinces, is a challenging site for federal state activity. In addition, the shape of Gulf governance evolved markedly during the quarter century spanning this case.2 The result makes the Irving Whale affair a fascinating window into the formative phase of Gulf environmental politics.When the fuel
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/683/image/coversmallThe Irving Whale and Environmental Governance in the Gulf of St. Lawrence2025-10-08text/htmlen-USThe Irving Whale and Environmental Governance in the Gulf of St. Lawrence2025-10-082025TWOProject MUSE®1432952026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-08Modernizing Maritimes Motorsport: Creating Atlantic Motorsport Park, 1959–1979
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971070
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FOR ATLANTIC REGION SPORTS CAR ENTHUSIASTS, 1974 was a banner year.1 In June the New Brunswick-built Bricklin SV-1 "safety" sports car was launched in New York.2 And on the first weekend in August, Atlantic Motorsport Park (AMP), the only purpose-built road racing circuit in Atlantic Canada, opened near Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia.3 The two launches could not have been more dissimilar. The Bricklin's launch, held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan, was awash in "showbiz glitz" and accompanied by flattering pre-production reviews that touted the promise of this unique and striking car.4 In stark contrast, while some 15,000 fans attended the first race at AMP – a record turnout for the sport in the region – it was
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/683/image/coversmallModernizing Maritimes Motorsport: Creating Atlantic Motorsport Park, 1959–19792025-10-08text/htmlen-USModernizing Maritimes Motorsport: Creating Atlantic Motorsport Park, 1959–19792025-10-082025TWOProject MUSE®1109642026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-08The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680–1790 by Thomas Peace (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971071
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THOMAS PEACE'S THE SLOW RUSH OF COLONIZATION explores the experiences of Indigenous and European peoples during a complicated era of conflict and alliance throughout the Maritime Peninsula: a region bordered by the St. Lawrence River to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, all interconnected by waterways. The author considers an era of profound change that saw the Maritime Peninsula gradually shift from a space "primarily defined by peoples who had lived in a relationship with it since time immemorial to a space where European form, politics, boundaries, and institutions were increasingly influential" (29). This gradual process of colonization – the "slow rush" of the book's
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/683/image/coversmallThe Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680–1790 by Thomas Peace (review)2025-10-08text/htmlen-USThe Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680–1790 by Thomas Peace (review)2025-10-082025TWOProject MUSE®279012026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-08Lost in the Crowd: Acadian Soldiers of Canada's First World War by Gregory M.W. Kennedy (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971072
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DISONS-LE D'EMBLÉE, LA LECTURE DE L'ÉTUDE Lost in the Crowd de l'historien Gregory M.W. Kennedy suscite un grand intérêt pour quiconque s'intéresse à l'histoire de la participation du Canada à la Première Guerre mondiale, et plus particulièrement aux minorités francophones canadiennes qui durent lutter sans relâche pour accroître la visibilité de leur engagement dans l'effort de guerre qui œuvrèrent pour donner une visibilité à leur engagement. Pour qui s'intéresse à cette question, la lecture de cette étude fait nécessairement écho, de prime abord, aux difficultés et tensions qu'éprouvaient les Canadiens français du Québec. Si ces derniers bénéficient d'une meilleure visibilité au sein de l'historiographie
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/683/image/coversmallLost in the Crowd: Acadian Soldiers of Canada's First World War by Gregory M.W. Kennedy (review)2025-10-08text/htmlen-USLost in the Crowd: Acadian Soldiers of Canada's First World War by Gregory M.W. Kennedy (review)2025-10-082025TWOProject MUSE®67462026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-08A Desperate Asylum: Crisis in a Canadian Psychiatric Hospital During Wartime by Anne Marie Creamer (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971073
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ANNE MARIE CREAMER'S A Desperate Asylum: Crisis in a Canadian Psychiatric Hospital During Wartime provides rare insight into institutionalized care on the home front during World War II. Anne Marie Creamer, Ph.D., is a nurse practitioner with the Horizon Health Network in Saint John, New Brunswick. Creamer introduces the Provincial Hospital in Fairville, the only psychiatric institution in New Brunswick at the time, and compiles records from the Royal Commission that was launched in 1945 by the provincial government to investigate allegations of "deplorable conditions and incidences of cruelty" toward patients (ix). The Commission produced a wealth of documents that provide "an extraordinarily detailed description
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/683/image/coversmallA Desperate Asylum: Crisis in a Canadian Psychiatric Hospital During Wartime by Anne Marie Creamer (review)2025-10-08text/htmlen-USA Desperate Asylum: Crisis in a Canadian Psychiatric Hospital During Wartime by Anne Marie Creamer (review)2025-10-082025TWOProject MUSE®98552026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-08