JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC REGION SPRING 2004

A C A D I E N S I S

REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE LA RÉGION ATLANTIQUE PRINTEMPS 2004

Editor/Directeur

BILL PARENTEAU

Secretary/Secrétaire

BECKEY DANIEL

A>ssistant Editor

French Language Editor

STEPHEN DUTCHER

JOSETTE BRUN

Editorial Board/Comité de rédaction

T.W. ACHESON

LINDA KEALEY

SHEILA ANDREW

PETER C. KENT

PATRICIA BELIER

ELIZABETH McGAHAN

MARION BEYEA

LIANNE McTAVISH

GAIL CAMPBELL

GREG MARQUIS

MARGARET CONRAD

MARC MILNER

JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER

STEPHEN PATTERSON

E.R. FORBES

SCOTT SEE

DAVID FRANK

WILLIAM SPRAY

BURTON GLENDENNING

D.M. YOUNG

GREGORY KEALEY

Editorial Advisory Board/Comité consultatif

P.A. BUCKNER

JAMES HILLER

J. MURRAY BECK

COLIN D. HOWELL

FRANCIS W.P. BOLGER

GEORGE MacBEATH

SEAN CADIGAN

IAN McKAY

J.M.S. CARELESS

D.A. MUISE

THOMAS J. CONDON

ROSEMARY OMMER

JEAN DAIGLE

JOHN G. REID

GWENDOLYN DAVIES

ERIC SAGER

JUDITH FINGARD

PETER B. WAITE

NAOMI GRIFFITHS

GRAEME WYNN

Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region is published twice a year, in the autumn and in the spring, by the Department of History of the University of New Brunswick. The Editorial Board welcomes the submission of manuscripts, in either English or French. All correspondence should be sent to: Acadiensis Campus House University of New Brunswick Fredericton, N.B.

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We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada, through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP), toward our mailing costs. Articles in Acadiensis are indexed in/Les articles sont répertoirés dans: Canadian Periodical Index, America: History and Life, Historical Abstracts, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature), ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center), International Current Awareness Services, Canadian Index and Canadian Business and Current Affairs.

ACADIENSIS

VOL. XXXIII, NO. 2 SPRING/PRINTEMPS 2004

RONALD RUDIN

The Champlain-De Monts Tercentenary: Voices from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine, June 1904 3

GREG MARQUIS

Celebrating Champlain in the Loyalist City: Saint John, 1904-10

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STEVEN TURNER and HEATHER MOLYNEAUX Agricultural Science, Potato Breeding and the Fredericton Experimental Station, 1912-66

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FORUM

Celebrating the Origins and Teaching of Women’s History at Atlantic Provinces Universities: A Symposium 68

RESEARCH NOTE/NOTE DE RECHERCHE

ANDRÉ VERMEIRRE

La présence des belges dans les charbonnages des Provinces Maritimes au début du 20e siècle ........................................................................... 105

REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUES

ANDREW NURSE

History, Law and the Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada ............................................... 126

W.G. GODFREY

A Fortified Town and a World War Profitably Re-examined ............................... 134

LEE WINDSOR

Updating the Official Gospel: Canadian Military History’s Third Wave ............. 144

BIBLIOGRAPHY/BIBLIOGRAPHIE

PATRICIA L. BELIER, Ann Gorman Condon, 1936-2001: A Bibliography ...... 158

Recent Publications Relating to the History of the Atlantic Region ..................... 164