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Peter L. Twohig and Sasha Mullally

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Peter L. Twohig and Sasha Mullally

Slavery in New France: Resistance and Enslavement of Southern Labrador Inuit

Greg Mitchell and Amanda Crompton
This article presents a new history of Indigenous slavery in New France by tracing the experiences of enslaved Labrador Inuit and by examining Inuit resistance in response to European aggression. In addition to known literature, there are archival sources, baptismal records, and hospital records that allow further understanding of Inuit captivity. This study examines oft-wary economic encounters between Inuit and European traders, resulting conflicts, and treaty making with colonial officials. Examining enslaved Labrador Inuit experiences during the 18th century demonstrates Labrador’s ties with the French Atlantic slave trade and confronts the silencing of Inuit captivity in historical narratives, providing Inuit ancestors with a voice in these events.

Poverty Capitals, the Media, and the Agricultural and Rural Development Agency’s Machinery of Government in Northeastern New Brunswick and Eastern Ontario During the 1960s

David Tough
The establishment of the Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (ARDA) by the Diefenbaker government in 1961, and its enlistment in the Pearson government’s “war on poverty” in 1965, focused political attention on places that had been excluded from postwar Canada’s modernity and affluence. This article examines print media’s construction of Brantville, New Brunswick and Keelerville, Ontario as poverty capitals during the 1960s. It argues that while there were general characteristics of reporting on poverty capitals, there were also pronounced regional contrasts. Brantville’s poverty was represented as confirming existing assumptions about where affluence and modernity were lacking, while Keelerville’s poverty, so close to the centre of political power and postwar affluence, was much more of a challenge to represent.

A “Swelling Visual Arts Landscape of Eastern Canada”: Recent Studies into Post-War Atlantic Canadian Art History

Andrew Nurse

Billy Johnson. Publishing Place: Transatlantic Modernity and Periodical Culture on Canada’s East Coast. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025

Greg Marquis

Tony Colaiacovo. Black History of Nova Scotia. Halifax: Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute, 2024

Titilola Aiyegbusi

Michelle Landry, Dominique Pépin-Filion et Julien Massicotte (dir.). L’état de l’Acadie : un grand tour d’horizon de l’Acadie contemporaine. Montréal, Del Busso, 2021

Caroline-Isabelle Caron

Hilary Doda. Fashioning Acadians: Clothing in the Atlantic World, 1650-1750. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023

Laura Oland