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

Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region is published twice a year, in the autumn and in the spring, by the Department of History of the University of New Brunswick. The Editorial Board welcomes the submission of manuscripts, in either English or French. All correspondence should be sent to: Acadiensis Campus House University of New Brunswick Fredericton, N.B.

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Articles in Acadiensis are indexed in/Les articles sont répertoirés dans: Canadian Periodical Index, America: History of Life, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature), International Current Awareness Services, Canadian Magazine Index and available on-line in the Canadian Business and Current Affairs Database.

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