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Hillary MacKinlay is an MA candidate at Dalhousie University and currently holds a Killam Scholarship. Her research interests include the Atlantic world and early modern England. Hillary is originally from Truro, Nova Scotia.

Katherine is a Master’s student in history at Dalhousie University. Her MA thesis will examine representations of prostitution in the popular press of late-Victorian London. Katherine’s work on the Charitable Irish Society was produced as a contribution to the Holy Cross Historical Trust project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, which examines the social mobility of Irish immigrants in Halifax during the nineteenth century.

Meghan Olivia Carter, MA Candidate, Political Science, Dalhousie University

I am from Amherst, Nova Scotia. I attended Mount Allison University were I earned my Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Science. I am currently completing my Master of Arts in Political Science at Dalhousie University.

Brian Tennyson is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the University of London. He taught at Cape Breton University for 38 years and has continued to teach in its distance education since his retirement in 2003. He was also the founding director of the university’s Centre for International Studies, which promoted internationalization, developed exchange programs, initiated CBU’s internarnational recruitment program and sponsored academic lectures, publications and a development education program in high schools throughout Cape Breton. He has published fourteen books on aspects of the history of Canadian foreign policy, Cape Breton history, and Canada’s involvement in the First World War. His latest book, entitled “Canada’s Great War: How Canada Helped Save the British Empire and Became a North American Nation,” was published by Rowman and Littlefield in December.

Preface Acadian Cemeteries in Nova Scotia: Places of Change Sally Ross The Reverend James MacGregor, Highland Shepherd Alan Wilson The Loyalist Plantation: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Informing Early African-Nova Scotian Settlement Katie Cottreau-Robins Arctic Moment: The Nova Scotian Institute of Sciences’s Halifax  – Hudson Bay Axis During the 1880s Suzanne Zeller The Halifax Explosion and the Spread of Rumour through Print Media, 1817 to the Present Gayle Graham and Bertrum H. MacDonald Policy regarding Genealogical Articles Terrence Punch Johannes Christopher Westhin/Whiston of Landshut, Bavaria and Halifax, Nova Scotia Norris Margeson Whiston Book Reviews  

Deborah Trask spent 30 years on the curatorial staff of the Nova Scotia Museum.  On her retirement, the Board of Governors appointed her ‘Curator Emeritus’.  Deborah is a member of the Board of Directors of the Old Burying Ground Foundation in Halifax and a member [since 1976] of the international Association for Gravestone Studies, based in New England.  She has written and lectured extensively on gravestones in Nova Scotia.  Currently she has a small museum consulting business and she continues to provide cemetery preservation advice to community groups across the province.  In 2012 Deborah was appointed to the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on Heritage Properties.

Kirrily Freeman is an Associate Professor of History at Saint Mary’s University. She teaches courses on twentieth century Europe, the two World Wars, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust, with a focus on society and culture. Her first book, Bronzes to Bullets: Vichy and the Destruction of French Public Statuar (2009), tells the story of French monuments that were melted down for munitions during the Second World War. Her interest in the cultural history of the Second World War has led to projects on art destruction and restitution, including Silence and Memory, an exhibition curated at the Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery.

Ross Langley is a graduate of Port Hawkesbury and New Glasgow elementary and high schools, receiving a BA at Mount Allison and a Medical Degree at Dalhousie University. Following post-graduate and fellowship training in internal medicine and research in St. John’s, Halifax, Toronto, Melbourne Australia and Rochester New York he joined the full time faculty of medicine at Dalhousie University as Markle Scholar in Academic Medicine in 1963. His interests have been in internal medicine, medical education, medical ethics, and blood diseases and his publications have been in those areas. An interest in medical history led to a joint work with Dr. Heather MacDougall in 2009, called a primer on the history of professional codes of ethic by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and published online on their site. His work on Chester B. Stewart, the medical dean 1954-1971 who led the transformation and created a new foundation for Dalhousie Medical School in the 1960s, was presented to the RNSHS in 2010. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Dalhousie University.

Dr. Frederick Young is Professor Emeritus of History at Saint Mary’s University, where he taught for more than four decades. He taught continental European history with a specialty in German history of the late 19th and early 20th century, particularly German economic development and the concomitant German emigration to South America.  Dr. Young frequently taught a seminar on the Era of Napoleon, and as a result he became interested recently in the contemporaneous War of 1812 here in North America, which led to his book published by the Penobscot Bay Press in Stonington, Maine.

Terry Murphy is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and History at Saint Mary’s University. A specialist in the religious history of Canada, he is the co-author/co-editor of three books in this field: Religion and Identity: the Experience of Irish and Scottish Catholics in Atlantic Canada (Jesperson Press, 1987), Creed and Culture: the place of English-speaking Catholics in Canadian Society, 1750-1930, (McGill-Queen’s University Press,1993) and A Concise History of Christianity in Canada (Oxford University Press, 1996). In addition to these books, he has contributed a number of articles to Canadian and international academic journals and reference works. He is past editor and a long-time editorial board member of the Canadian Catholic Historical Society’s journal, Historical Studies. He is currently a collaborator on  a SSHRC partnership project to study the Irish population of Halifax in the nineteenth century. His contribution to the project will focus on the transformation of the religious life of Roman Catholics in the middle decades of the nineteenth century.