ACADIENSIS

Edward MacDonald. The Geography of Home: Poems for a Lost Time. Charlottetown: Island Studies Press, 2025.

2026-08-31

David Creelman

Front Matter

2026-08-31

Revisiting the American Revolution in 2026: Loyalist History from Community, Indigenous, and Atlantic Perspectives

2026-08-31

Bonnie Huskins

The 250 th anniversary of the American Revolution is being celebrated by the federal government in 2026. This anniversary has generated the publication of a number of related monographs. The books reviewed here complicate the mainstream Patriot-centred narrative of the revolution by focusing on the Loyalists and loyalism, as well as the impact of the northern colonies (in what would become Canada) and Indigenous homelands on the formation of the United States. Jones, Lennox, Grant and Minty encourage us to complicate the histories of the revolution by considering such units of analysis as comparative communities; individual actors ensconced in various contexts of the revolution; and broader frameworks such as the British Atlantic World, the Loyal Atlantic, and the Enlightenment Atlantic

Time, Ties, and Tidelands: Acadian Marsh Relations on Île Saint-Jean

2026-08-31

M. Hatvany, D. Cayer

The centrality of marshlands to Acadia’s development is well known. Less familiar is how regional marsh relations were typified by two practices that differed between core and periphery. The earliest, the extensive practices of salt marsh pasturing and haying, required little time or community structure. Marsh reclamation, undertaken in pursuit of intensive agricultural practices, followed but was dependent upon sufficient developmental time and community cooperation. The portrayal of these relations as a linear evolution climaxing in reclamation masks the spatiotemporal reasons why extensive exploitation persisted on the periphery, where settlement was recent and communities were still coalescing. This insight clarifies Acadian marsh relations on Île Saint-Jean, where extensive practices dominated during the 18th century.

Joshua MacFadyen. Time Flies: A History of Prince Edward Island from the Air. Charlottetown: Island Studies Press, 2023.

2026-08-31

Sasha Mullally

The Historical Roots of the Crisis in Medicare in Atlantic Canada

2026-08-31

Gregory Marchildon

The crisis in access to Medicare services in Atlantic Canada has long historical roots. There were clear advantages to the four provinces in the original shared-cost regime developed in the 1950s and 1960s. However, the establishment of a block transfer regime in the late 1970s and subsequent changes have disadvantaged these provinces. Efforts to better manage health spending through regional health authorities, since merged into more centralized health authorities, have not ameliorated the situation, and some policy options, including a major reform of the Canada Health Transfer, are proposed to address this crisis.

Peter Clancy and Mario Levesque. Environmental Governance in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2025.

2026-08-31

Zachary A. Tingley

Alan MacEachern. Becoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024.

2026-08-31

Charles Ferris

L’effet du grand feu de Campbellton sur les activités locales du gouvernement du Canada

2026-08-31

Gaétan Migneault

On 11 July 1910, the town of Campbellton was destroyed by fire. Only a few buildings were spared. The Government of Canada was actively involved in activities there, mainly related to port and navigation operations, postal services, and customs, as well as the Intercolonial Railway. This article examines and seeks to assess the losses sustained by the Canadian government during this disaster. It is estimated that approximately 7.75% of the total losses were incurred by the Government of Canada.

A Note from the Co-Editors

2026-08-31

Peter L. Twohig, Sasha Mullally

Note de la direction

2026-08-31

Peter L. Twohig, Sasha Mullally

Deux Acadiens chez les Rouges : les voyages des pères Maurice LeBlanc et Léger Comeau dans le monde communiste

2026-08-31

Michael Poplyansky

En se basant sur les impressions de voyage des pères Maurice LeBlanc et Léger Comeau, rédigées entre 1971 et 1986, cette note de recherche explore leurs perceptions de l’URSS, de l’Europe de l’Est et de la Chine communiste. L’objectif principal est de déterminer dans quelle mesure leur identification à l’Acadie influe sur leur regard porté sur le monde communiste. Or, malgré leur engagement envers la cause acadienne, leurs observations auraient pu, pour la plupart, être formulées par des voyageurs issus de n’importe quel pays occidental. Cette recherche illustre donc les limites d’une « perspective acadienne » dans l’interprétation des réalités internationales. Si cette grille de lecture peut éclairer certains contextes, elle se révèle beaucoup moins pertinente dans d’autres.

A Note from the Co-Editors

2025-10-01

Sasha Mullally, Peter L. Twohig

La pêche basque dans le golfe du Saint-Laurent : une analyse de contenu des actes notariés de Jacques Cousseau, notaire à La Rochelle, 1602-1653

2025-10-01

Bernard Allaire, Nicolas Landry, Brad Loewen

This paper draws its data from the notarial records of Jacques Cousseau who was active in La Rochelle from 1602 to 1653 and whose records are preserved in the Archives départementales de la Charente-Maritime, also in La Rochelle. An initial overview showed the exceptional value of these records for understanding the specific place of the Basques within French fishing and trading in North America. Of the 17th-century La Rochelle notaries, Cousseau had the most extensive Basque clientele. His records fill 21 registers and 11 bundles, covering about half a century of Rochelais maritime activity. In going through these records, we identified and photographed 814 acts that shed light on the transatlantic fisheries. The Jacques Cousseau collection is exceptionally rich and its consultation is fundamental for understanding the Basque fisheries around the Gulf of St. Lawrence and on the Atlantic coasts of Newfoundland and Acadia.