The Gorsebrook Research Institute (GRI) for Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary’s University (SMU) is the regional hub for research and collaborative scholarship on Atlantic Canada. Our Atlantic Canada recognizes First Nation communities and their land sovereignty, the ethnic and cultural diversity of those who were settled as part of forced immigration and colonization, and those who are here by their own choice and agency. The GRI’s mandate is to provide an interdisciplinary research environment that facilitates exchanges and partnerships among researchers at SMU and affiliates from many different fields who can come together to improve understandings of Atlantic Canada. It does so by providing research funding for faculty members of or affiliated with SMU and for community-based projects.