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SPEAR  Studies in the Political Economy of the Atlantic Region

The Institute, in conjunction with Acadiensis Press, published this book series.

Contested Countryside:

Rural Workers and Modern Society in Atlantic Canada, 1800-1950

Published for the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies by Acadiensis Press, Fredericton, 1994
Edited by Daniel Samson

Atlantic Canada looks different from the countryside. Farming is only part of the story, for rural people have also worked in the woods, on the fishing boats and in the coal mines, and they have always occupied a vivid place in the cultural imagination of the region. Even as railways and cities and industries changed the social landscape of the region, the forces of capitalism and modernization also crated new challenges for the people who lived in the countryside. In six carefully research chapters, this book examines the social and economic history of the people who, until the middle of the 20 th century, made up the rural majority of the population.

Contents

• Introduction: Situating the Rural in Atlantic Canada
• Farm Households and Wage Labour in the Northeastern Maritimes in the Early 19 th Century by Rusty Bittermann
• Between Farm and Factory: The Productive Household and the Capitalist Transformation of the Maritime Countryside, Hopewell, Nova Scotia, 1869-1890 by Steven Maynard
• Dependency and Rural Industry: Inverness, Nova Scotia, 1899-1910 by Sean Cadigan
• Settlement and the Forest Frontier Revisited: Class Politics and the Administration of the New Brunswick Labor Act, 19199-1929 by Bill Parenteau
• Time, Memory and Rural Transformation: Rereading History in the Fiction of Charles Bruce and Ernest Buckler by Erik Kristiansen
• Afterword: Capitalism and Modernization in the Atlantic Canada Countryside

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Trouble in the Woods:

Forest Policy and Social Conflict in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick

Published for the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies by Acadiensis Press, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Edited by L. Anders Sandberg

This is the history behind today's headlines about confrontations between governments, companies, woodlot owners, workers, and conservationists in the forest industry - a penetrating look at the exploitation and management of Maritime forest resources over the last century. Individual case studies examine the legacy of sawmill operations on the Acadian Peninsula and in Albert County, the origins of the pulp and paper industry in Bathurst, New Brunswick and on Cape Breton Island, the continuing struggles of pulpwood producers and recent efforts to reform the management of the woods. This is the third volume in the Gorsebrook Studies in the Political Economy of the Atlantic Region and and is edited by geographer L. Anders Sandberg of York University.

Contents

• L. Anders Sandberg , Introduction: Dependent Development and Client States: Forest Policy and Social Conflict in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
• Raymond Léger , L'impact de l'industrie du bois sur le territoire et la main-d'oeuvre de la Péninsule acadienne, Nouveau-Brunswick, 1875-1900.
• Serge Côté , Naissance de l'industrie papetière et mainmise sur la forêt: Le cas de Bathurst.
• L. Anders Sandberg , Forest Policy in Nova Scotia: The Big Lease, Cape Breton Island, 1899-1960.
• Nancy Colpitts , Sawmills to National Park: Alma, New Brunswick, 1921-1947.
• Bill Parenteau , "In Good Faith": The Development of Pulpwood Marketing for Independent Producers in New Brunswick, 1960-1975.
• Peter Clancy , The Politics of Pulpwood Marketing in Nova Scotia, 1960-1985.
• Blyn Bissix and L. Anders Sandberg , The Political Economy of Nova Scoitia's Forest Improvement Act, 1962-1986.
• Kell Antoft , Symptom or Solution? The Nova Scotia Land Holdings Disclosure Act of 1969
• Peter Clancy and L. Anders Sandberg , Conclusion: Maritime Forest Sector Development: A Question of Hard Choices.

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Workers and the State in Twentieth Century Nova Scotia

Published for the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies by Acadiensis Press, Fredericton, 1989).
Edited by Michael Earle with an afterword by Craig Heron

In the creation of the modern system of industrial relations in Canada, some of the key workers' struggles and compromises with the power of employers and the state took place in Nova Scotia. In some periods of its history Nova Scotia had, concentrated in a few industries, the most militant labour movement in the country, which consequently for a brief time forced the Nova Scotia government to pass the most advanced labour laws in Canada. In other periods, and for other workers, Nova Scotia has had labour laws that were among the most backward in the nation.

The articles in this book deal with Cape Breton coal miners, inshore and offshore fishermen, Halifax construction workers in the year of the Explosion, shipyard workers during the Second World War, gypsum workers in Windsor, and provincial government employees. All these episodes in the history of labour in Nova Scotia, whether occurring fifteen or fifty years ago, contribute to an understanding of the present day labour movement and the historic role of the state in labour affairs.

Contents

• Introduction: Industrial Legality in Nova Scotia by Michael Earl and Ian McKay
• The Coal Miners and the Law in Nova Scotia: From the 1864 Combination of Workmen Act to the 1947 Trade Union Act by Kirby Abbott
• The Halifax Relief Commission and Labour Relations during the reconstruction of Halifax, 1917-1919 by Suzanne Morton
• “Solving a Problem”: Privatizing Worker's Compensation for Nova Scotia's Offshore Fishermen, 1926-1928 by Fred Winsor
• The United Mine Workers and the Coming of the CCF to Cape Breton by Michael Earle and Herbert Gamberg
• “Down with Hitler and Silby Barrett”: The Cape Breton Miners' Slowdown Strike of 1941 by Michael Earle
• Pulling Teeth: Striking for the Check-off in the Halifax Shipyards, 1944 by Jay White
• “Free Enterprise at Its Best”: The State, National Sea, and the Defeat of the Nova Scotia Fishermen, 1946-1947 by E. Jean Nisbet
• The Windsor Gypsum Strike and the Formation of the Joint Labour/Management Study Committee: Conflict and Accommodation in the Nova Scotia Labour Movement, 1957-1979 by C.J.H. Gilson and A.M. Wadden
• From Civil Servants to Government Employees: The Nova Scotia Government Employees Association, 1967-1973 by Anthony Thomson
• Afterword: Male Wage-Earners and the State in Canada by Craig Heron.

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People, Resources, and Power:

Critical Perspectives on Underdevelopment and Primary Industries in the Atlantic Region

Published for the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies by Acadiensis Press, Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Edited by Gary Burrill and Ian McKay with an afterword by Rick Williams

A New Brunswick farmer surveys his ravaged land and wonders why he can no longer make a living from growing potatoes. A family in Nova Scotia scans the skies for an airplane spraying chemicals on the forest. In Newfoundland, a community debates the reopening of mines notorious for inflicting death and disease. In Prince Edward Island, women demand a better price from distant multinationals for their Irish moss.

This book is about these very different people and the common peoblem of underdevelopment they face. It is about resources and the reasons why the working people of Canada's Atlantic region have derived so little benefit from the natural wealth which surrounds them. Based mainly on articles in New Maritimes , an independent regional monthly,this book is an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the problems experienced by primary producers in an underdeveloped region. It is both a disturbing exploration of the exploitation of resources and people and a call for a more generous and humane future.

"This book comes out of a growing tradition of radical political economy in Atlantic Canada, best represented in the pages of New Maritimes . The wounded resource base of the region reveals the failure of business and government, and the tragedy of modern development policy. These are thoughtful, compassionate reports, with a cautious message of hope for the struggle against underdevlopment." --David Frank, Department of History, University of New Brunswick.

Contents

• Dependency and Resources in the Atlantic Region: An Introduction
• Further Reading: Dependency and Resources

• Introduction: The New Corporate Clearances
• Potato Capitalism: McCain and Industrial Farming in New Brunswick, Tom Murphy
• From Self-Reliance to Dependence to Struggle: Agribusiness and the Politics of Potates in New Brunswick, Darrell McLaughlin
• The Political Education fo Bud the Spud: Producers and Plebiscites on Prince Edward Island, Marie Burge
• Leading the Way: An Unauthorized Guide to the Sobeys Empire, Eleanor O'Donnell
• Further Readings: Agriculture

• Introduction: "The Tragedy of the Commons" or the Common Tragedies of Capital?
• The Poor Man's Machiavelli: Michael Kirby and the Atlantic Fisheries, Rick Williams
• The Restructuring That Wasn't: The Scandal at National Sea, Rick Williams
• Underdeveloping the P.E.I. Fishery, Bernie Conway
• Of Price and Prices: Miminegash, Moss, and the Multinationals, Mary Boyd
• Further Reading: Fishing

• Introduction: From Towering Pines to the Multinationals' Pulpstand
• The New Forest in Nova Scotia, Julia McMahon
• A Reader's Guide to the Spray, Christopher Majka
• The Political Economy of Pesticide and Herbicide Testing in New Brunswick, Bruce Livesey
• Underdeveloping Nova Scotia's Forests, and the Role of Corporate Counter-Intellegence, Aaron Schneider
• Further Reading: Forestry

• Introduction: The Hidden Injuries of Dependence
• The Political Economy of Illusion: The Strange Case of Nova Scotia's Vanishing Offshore, Brian O'Neill
• The Sinking of the Ocean Ranger, 1982: The Politics fo a Resource Tragedy, Brian O'Neill
• Springhill 1958, Ian McKay
• Old Wounds: Reopening the MInes of St.Lawrence, Alan Story
• Further Reading: Mining and Energy

• Is There Life after Underdevelopment? An Afterword, Rick Williams

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Other Independant Publications

Myth, Migration and the Making of Memory:

Scotia and Nova Scotia c.1700-1990

Published for the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies by Fernwood Publishing and John Donald Publishers Limited 1999.
Edited by Marjory Harper and Michael E. Vance

The essays in this volume, which are drawn from a wide range of disciplines, challenge us to consider critically the commonly held assumption that Nova Scotia is essentially Scottish in character. They do so by exploring the origin of the mythic understanding of the link between Scotland and Nova Scotia, by expanding the examination of Scottish influences from the customary focus on Highland migrants to also include mercantile, philanthropic and professional transatlantic connections, and by studying how the memory of the links between the sending and receiving societies has been maintained in the oral and literary traditions. Rather than denying the legitimacy of popular perceptions, this collection points to the varied and complex transatlantic relationship that has existed between Scotland and Nova Scotia and provides the foundation for a broader, more sophisticated, approach to this rich subject.

Contents

• Myth, Migration and the Making of Memory: An Introduction - Marjory Harper and Michael E. Vance

• The Myth of Scotch Canada - Edward J. Cowan
• Surveying the Remains of a Highland Myth: Investigations at the Birthplace of Flora MacDonald, Airigh-mhuilinn, South Uist - James Symonds
• Scottishness and Britishness in Canada, 1790-1914 - J. M. Bumsted

• Leaving the Highlands: Colonial Destinations in Canada and Australia - Eric Richards
• Historical Archaeology and Migration: Barra Blackhouse Abandonment and Mid-nineteenth Century Migration to Nova Scotia - Keith Branigan
• A Highland Regiment in Halifax: the 78 th Highland Regiment of Foot and the Scottish National/Cultural Factor in Nova Scotia's Capital, 1869-71- Cameron Pulsifer
• “Advent'rous Merchants and Atlantic Waves”: A Preliminary Study of the Scottish Contribution to Book Availability in Halifax, 1752-1810 - Fiona A. Black
• Mediating a Scottish Enlightenment Ideal: The Presbyterian Dissenter Attack on Slavery in Late Eighteenth-Century Nova Scotia - Barry Cahill
• Scottish Influences in Nineteenth-century Nova Scotia Medicine: A Study of Professional, Class and Ethnic identify - Colin D. Howell
• Victorian Philanthropy and Child Rescue: The Career of Emma Stirling in Scotland and Nova Scotia, 1860-95 - Philip Girard
• Notes from Eastern Canada: Scottish Immigration to the Maritime Provinces in the 1920s - Marjory Harper

• On Remembering the Forgetting: Highland Memories within the Maritime Diaspora - Rusty Bitterman
• “Lochaber no more”: A Critical Examination of Highland Emigration Mythology - Michael Kennedy
• Above and Below Ground: Metaphors of Identify in Fictional Texts from Scotia and Nova Scotia - Uwe Zagratski

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In Armageddon's Shadow:

The Civil War and Canada's Maritime Provinces

Published for the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies, Halifax by McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 1998
Greg Marquis

The United States had important ties with Canada's Maritime Provinces that were profoundly shaken by the American Civil War. Drawing extensively on newspaper reports, personal papers, and local histories, Greg Marquis captures the drama of the times, effectively putting the reader into the thick of the actions and into the minds of the individuals involved. In Armageddon's Shadow highlights Maritime support for the beleaguered Confederacy and the grave implications this had on race relations in Canada. He details the involvement of Maritimers in running blockades, and recounts the experiences of some of the thousands of men from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island who served in America's bloodiest conflict.

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New Faces of the Fur Trade:

Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995

Published by the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies with Michigan State University, 1995
Edited by Jo-Anne Fiske, Susan Sleeper-Smith, and William Wicken

New Faces of the Fur Trade is a collection of fifteen essays selected from the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1995. These articles question the traditional focus of tur trade literature and suggest that there are richer, more diverse narratives to be constructed and new ways to look at the fur trade. Many focus on subjects and themes that either have been formerly overlooked or have been introduced and then neglected. Fur trade studies have been criticized for remaining outside the current mainstream of historiography, in particular for paying scant attention to the rich insights to be found in approachees adopted from the fields of social and gender history. This volume redresses some of those omissions.

Jo-Anne Fiske is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia.

Susan Sleeper Smith is Assistant Professor of History at Michigan State University.

William Wicken is Assistant Professor of History at York University in Toronto.

Contents

• Hard Times and Everything Like That: Carrier Women's Tales of Life on the Trapline, Jo-Anne Friske and Coroline Mufford
• Festivities, Fortitude, and Fraternalism: Fur Trade Masculinity and the Beaver Club, 1785-1827, Carolyn Podruchny
• Furs and Female Kin Networks: The World of Marie Madeleine Réaume L'archevêque Chevalier, Susan Sleeper-Smith

• Symbolic and Material Exchange in Intercultural Diplomacy: The French and the Haudenosaunee in the Early Eighteent Century, Peter Cook
• Fur Trade History, Native History, Public History: Communication and Miscommunication, Laura Peers
• Witemen Servants of Greed: Foreigners, Indians, and Canada's Northwest Game Act of 1917, Bruce Alden Cox

• After the Buffalo: The Reformation fo the Turtle Mountain Métis Community, 1879-1905, Gerhard J. Ens
• Ojibwa Leadership during the Fur Trade Era at Sault Ste. Marie, Janet E. Chute

• Balancing the Books: Trader Profits in the British Lake Superior Fur Trade, Bruce M. White
• The Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Indian Trade in Southeastern North America, Gregory A. Waselkov
• Public versus Private Ownership: Saskatchewan Fur Trapping and Trading Legislation in the 1940s, Ann Harper Fender

• Ambition versus Loyalty: Miles Macdonell and the Decline of te North West Company, Heather Devine
• The "Dried Spider" and the Gadfly: The James Keith-John Clarke Confrontation ast Mingan, 1831-32, H. Lloyd Keith
• The Search for Silver: Johan Beetz and the Birth fo the Fox-Breeding Industry, Gwyneth Hoyle
• Halifax as a Cradle of the Post-Conquest Fur Trade in Canada, Harry W. Duckworth

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Ground Zero:

A Reassessment of the 1917 Explosion in Halifax Harbour

Co-published by Nimbus Publishing Ltd. and Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary's University, 1994.
Co-edited by Alan Ruffman and Colin D.Howell

SORRY, OUT OF PRINT

The 1917 explosion in Halifax Harbour stands as Canada's greatest tragedy in terms of loss of live and destruction. In this exhaustive work, the horrific explosion that devastated the twin cities of Halifax and Dartmouth is examined from many important aspects and points of view, both those not previously explored in other writings and those which have. They include the historical contest, the scientific significance, disaster research, medical responses, relief efforts regeneration and rebuilding, placing blame, and the victims themselves. This book is compiled from papers presented at the 1992 symposium on the 1917 explosion, sponsored by the Gorsebrook Research in Halifax.

Contents

• Halifax Harbour, December 6, 1917: Setting the Scene by David Sutherland
• The Explosion Mortuary Artefacts: A Look at the Victims by Janet Kitz
• The Dartmouth Side of the Explosion by Joan M. Paysant
• Turtle Grove: Dartmouth's Lost Mi'kmaq Community by Jennifer Burke
• The Place of the Explosion in the History of Disaster Research: The Work of Samuel H. Prince by Russell R. Dynes and E.L. Quarantelli
• More Source than Influence: Johnstone's Contribution to Prince's Dissertation by Joseph Scanlon and Gillian Osborne
• Archibald MacMechan and the Writing of “The Halifax Disaster” by Henry Roper

• Through the Eyes of Annie Leake Tuttle: The Old ladies' Home and the 1917 Explosion by Marilyn F”rdig Whiteley
• A Semiotic Blast by Donna E. Smyth
• The Halifax Harbour Explosion: Fact, Fiction, and Focal Point by Judith Dudar
• Creating Fiction Out of Fact by Robert MacNeil
• Post Cards of the 1917 Explosion by Bernard G. Kline
• “The Explosion”: A Play by Jennette White

• Private Wealth and Public Health: Rockefeller Philanthropy and the Massachusetts-Halifax Relief Committee/Health Commission by William J. Buxton
• “Never Handmaidens”: The Victorian Order of Nurses and the Massachusetts-Halifax Health Commission by Suzanne Morton
• Searching the Wreckage for Signs of Region: Newfoundland and the Halifax harbour Explosion by Malcolm MacLeod
• After the Storm: The Church and Synagogue Response by Allen B. Robertson
• Medical Aspects of the Disaster: The Missing report of Dr. David Fraser Harris by T.J. Murray
• Medical Memories of the 1917 Explosion by Neena Abraham

• Exploding Myths: The Halifax Harbour Explosion in Historical Context by jay White
• Explosions, Bombs, and Bumps: Scientific Aspects of the Explosion by David Simpson and Alan Ruffman
• Realities, Myths, and Misconceptions of the Explosion by Alan Ruffman and David Simpson
• The Tsunami from the Explosion in Halifax Harbour by Alan Ruffman, David A. Greenberg, and Tad S. Murty
• Seabed Impacts of the Explosion of the Mont Blanc by Gordon B.J. Fader

• Another Calamity: The Litigation by Donald Kerr
• A Look Back at the Collision of the Imo and the Mont Blanc with Seventy-Five Years of Hindsight by Robert C.P. Power

• The Hydrostone Phoenix: Garden City Planning and the Reconstruction of Halifax, 1917-21 by Ernest Clarke
• Halifax, Nova Scotia: A Study of the Effects of Disaster on urban Morphology by Janice H. Miller
• A Vision of Regeneration: Reconstruction after the Halifax Harbour Explosion, 1917-21

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This volume contains a summary of the proceedings of The First Interdisciplinary Conference on Natural Resource Modelling and Analysis held at Saint Mary's University and the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Halifax, Canada. It attracted 150 resource modellers and analysis from Asia, Europe, and across North America, drawn from resource management agencies, government research laboratories, universities and industry.

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The editors of these proceedings first came together on the request of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, to serve as an organizing committee for a conference aimed at exploring economic alternatives in Atlantic Canada. The goal was to focus on "Third Sector" alternatives - community economic development, co-operatives, and other participatory means - contrasting with the failures of private enterprise and government efforts. The conference was held at Saint Mary's University, October 2-4, 1986, and was co-sponsered by the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies. The meeting brought together over seventy-five participants from across Atlantic Canada, and benefitted from contributions by a variety of practitioners and academics, as well as union and government representatives. We thank all participants for making the conference a valuable one. It is a sad but true fact of life that the problems faced by Atlantic Canada have continued to grow in the time since the conference, but the economic policy directions described herein remain as valid now as then.

Contents

• A Discussion Paper
• Conferenc Agenda
• Welcome and Opening Remarks
• The Crisis in the Regional Economy
• Third Sector Development: Prespectives on the Crisis
• Government's Role
• Alternative Strategies: Problems and Potential in Selected Cases
• International Community Development Experience
• Strategies and Policies: Analysis of Issues
• Reflections on the Conference

Appendices

1. Presentation to the Conference on Economic Democracy in Atlantic Canada - Alma Brooks
2. Comments on "Economic Democracy in Atlantic Canada" and the Third Sector Alternative - Roger Carter
3. Economic Crisis in Atlantic Canada and the Third SEctor Alternative: Insights from the Fishing Industry in Newfoundland - Barbara Neis
4. Conference Evaluation
5. List of Conferrence Participants

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