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JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC REGION AUTUMN 1997
A C A D I E N S I S
REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE LA RÉGION ATLANTIQUE AUTOMNE 1997
Editor/Directeur
GAIL CAMPBELL
Secretary/Secrétaire
BECKEY DANIEL
French Language Editor
JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER
Editorial Board/Comité de rédaction
T.W. ACHESON
MARGARET McCALLUM
PAT BELIER
ELIZABETH McGAHAN
D.G. BELL
STEPHEN PATTERSON
MARION BEYEA
WILLIAM SPRAY
RUSTY BITTERMANN
G.F.G. STANLEY
GREGG FINLEY
ERIC. L. SWANICK
E.R. FORBES
D.G. THOMPSON
DAVID FRANK
PETER TONER
BURTON GLENDENNING
D.M. YOUNG
Advisory Board/Comité consultatif J. MURRAY BECK
GEORGE MACBEATH
FRANCIS W.P. BOLGER
COLIN B. MACKAY
J.M.S. CARELESS
R.A. MACLEAN
THOMAS J. CONDON
D.A. MUISE
MARGARET CONRAD
JOHN G. REID
JEAN DAIGLE
ERIC SAGER
GWENDOLYN DAVIES
ALICE R. STEWART
JUDITH FINGARD
PETER B. WAITE
JAMES HILLER
GRAEME WYNN
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ACADIENSIS
VOL. XXVII, No. 1 AUTUMN/AUTOMNE 1997
T.W. ACHESON New Boston to New Brunswick: Anonymous Loyalists in New Hampshire 3
W.G. GODFREY “Into the hands of the Ladies”: The Birth of the Moncton Hospital 27
JOSETTE BRUN Les femmes d’affaires en Nouvelle-France au 18e siècle : le cas de l’Île Royale 44
CHESLEY W. SANGER and ANTHONY B. DICKINSON The Construction and Display of the First Full-Scale Model of a Blue Whale:
The Newfoundland Connection 67
T. STEPHEN HENDERSON Angus L. Macdonald and the
Conscription Crisis of 1944 85
DOCUMENT
MIKA ROINILA A Finnish Runaway Sailor In New Brunswick: The Experiences Of George (Yrjö) Laakso ........................................................... 105
REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUES
MATTHEW G. HATVANY Tenant, Landlord and Historian: A Thematic Review of the “Polarization” Process in the Writing of 19th-century Prince Edward Island History ........................................................... 109
JANET GUILDFORD and MICHAEL EARLE On Choosing a Textbook: Recent Canadian History Surveys and Readers ..................................................... 133