Acadiensis

Acadiensis The essential source for reading and research on the region, Acadiensis is one of Canada's leading scholarly journals.

Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region / R***e d’histoire de la région atlantique http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Acadiensis/ Follow us on Twitter! Acadiensis Press publishes books on the history and culture of Atlantic Canada. "a host of valuable articles on the Atlantic area . . . a veritable renaissance in Maritime regional history"
— J.M.S. Careless, University of Toronto

"some

of the finest articles being written today in Canadian history"
— D.A. Muise, A Reader's Guide to Canadian History

Issue 54, 2 of the journal has been launched. For more details, click here:
06/04/2026

Issue 54, 2 of the journal has been launched. For more details, click here:

We are pleased to announce the release of Acadiensis, Vol. 54, No. 2! In this issue Greg Mitchell and Amanda Crompton probe fragmentary archival sources to bring to the surface stories of Labrador …

Our newest digital venture has now gone live, just in time for day 1 of the Atlantic Canada Studies Conference. Please ...
06/03/2026

Our newest digital venture has now gone live, just in time for day 1 of the Atlantic Canada Studies Conference. Please check out episode one of the Acadiensis Podcast, featuring Mt. A.'s Andrew Nurse.

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Acadiensis looks forward to seeing you at the CHA 2026 book expo at McDougall Hall! We hope you’ll come by for a visit.
06/01/2026

Acadiensis looks forward to seeing you at the CHA 2026 book expo at McDougall Hall! We hope you’ll come by for a visit.

05/25/2026

A special of the Journal of New Brunswick Studies/R***e d'etudes sur le Nouveau Brunswick has been published. For more info:

Blogging the history of Atlantic Canada

The CFP for the David Alexander Prize for Best Undergraduate Essay on the History of Atlantic Canada has been issued. Fo...
05/12/2026

The CFP for the David Alexander Prize for Best Undergraduate Essay on the History of Atlantic Canada has been issued. For more information, visit the blog:

The David Alexander Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on the history of Atlantic Canada written in a course by an undergraduate student in any university. Dr. Alexander (1939-1980) was o…

On the blog ... Andrew Nurse reviews the All in a Woman’s Day’s Work exhibition at Boultenhouse Heritage Centre in Sackv...
04/16/2026

On the blog ... Andrew Nurse reviews the All in a Woman’s Day’s Work exhibition at Boultenhouse Heritage Centre in Sackville, New Brunswick:

Andrew Nurse All in a Woman’s Day’s Work is a new exhibition launched by the Boultenhouse Heritage Centre in Sackville, New Brunswick. It is not a female supplement to Makers and Sellers, another n…

On the blog ... Joshua MacFadyen, Abigail Fenton, and Fabian Wegner's "Motor Lodges, Mourners, and Upward Mobility: An I...
04/07/2026

On the blog ... Joshua MacFadyen, Abigail Fenton, and Fabian Wegner's "Motor Lodges, Mourners, and Upward Mobility: An Introduction to the Paul Sharpe Aerial Photograph Collection, 1947-1952" provides an intro to the Paul Sharpe aerial photo collection:

Joshua MacFadyen, Abigail Fenton, and Fabian Wegner Introduction The UPEI lab for Geospatial Research in Atlantic Canadian History (the GeoREACH Lab) recently added a new layer of aerial photograph…

On the blog, Danny Samson looks at the Nova Scotia Government's decision to close the Sutherland Steam Museum:
03/31/2026

On the blog, Danny Samson looks at the Nova Scotia Government's decision to close the Sutherland Steam Museum:

By Danny Samson One of my favourite novels is Iain Banks’s 1994 cyber-punk classic Feersum Endjinn. Set in a fully-wired future, it tells of a world where the real and the virtual are indistinguish…

On the blog, Jay Lalonde, Tegan Rowlings, and Zachary A. Tingley cast a critical eye on the Nova Scotia Government's dec...
03/24/2026

On the blog, Jay Lalonde, Tegan Rowlings, and Zachary A. Tingley cast a critical eye on the Nova Scotia Government's decision to cut funding to the history and heritage industries:

By Jay Lalonde, Tegan Rowlings, and Zachary A. Tingley “Museums play a key role in preserving and sharing our heritage. To protect that work for future generations, we’re taking steps to modernize …

On the blog ... Another open letter about NS's cuts to its museum program, this one by John Reid (Prof. Emeritus SMU) an...
03/03/2026

On the blog ... Another open letter about NS's cuts to its museum program, this one by John Reid (Prof. Emeritus SMU) and M. Brook Taylor (Prof. Emeritus MSVU):

Minister David RitceyDepartment of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage1741 Brunswick St., 3rd FloorHalifax, NS B3J 2R5Email: [email protected] Premier Tim HoustonOffice of the Prem…

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