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KENNETH DONOVAN is an historian at the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada. Acadiensis has published his work on slavery in Ile Royale and he has an article on the Irish experience in Cape Breton in the Fall 1999 issue of The Nashwaak Review and another work on slavery forthcoming in Robert DuPlessis, ed., French Colonial History (Michigan State University Press). HARVEY AMANI WHITFIELD came to Canada from the United States to study at Dalhousie University. He is completing a doctoral dissertation with the History Department there and hopes to remain in Canada to pursue his research interests. DANIEL C. GOODWIN completed his doctoral dissertation at Queen’s University and teaches history at Atlantic Baptist University in Moncton. CAMERON PULSIFER received his doctorate from Queen’s University and is an historian with the Canadian War Museum. JERRY BANNISTER is at Memorial University on a post-doctoral fellowship from the Institute for Social and Economic Research. His study, The Custom of the Country: Law and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832, will be published by the University of Toronto Press in 2003. PHILLIP A. BUCKNER, now professor emeritus at the University of New Brunswick, was the founding editor of Acadiensis. He is currently a visiting professor at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London. RUSSELL JOHNSTON is the author of Selling Themselves: The Emergence of Canadian Advertising (University of Toronto Press, 2001). He is a member of the Department of Communications, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University. PETER L. TWOHIG is researching public health in the Maritimes and developing a comparative history of five groups of health care workers. He is a member of the Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University.