JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC REGION AUTUMN 2005

ACADIENSIS

REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE LA RÉGION ATLANTIQUE AUTOMNE 2005

Editor/Directeur

BILL PARENTEAU

Secretary/Secrétaire

BECKEY DANIEL

Assistant Editor

STEPHEN DUTCHER

French Language Editor

NICOLE LANG

Editorial Board/Comité de rédaction

T.W. ACHESON

LINDA KEALEY

SHEILA ANDREW

NICOLE LANG

PATRICIA BELIER

PETER C. KENT

MARION BEYEA

ELIZABETH McGAHAN

JOSETTE BRUN

LIANNE McTAVISH

GAIL CAMPBELL

GREG MARQUIS

MARGARET CONRAD

MARC MILNER

JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER

STEPHEN PATTERSON

E.R. FORBES

SCOTT SEE

DAVID FRANK

WILLIAM SPRAY

BURTON GLENDENNING

D.M. YOUNG

GREGORY KEALEY

Editorial Advisory Board/Comité consultatif

P.A. BUCKNER

JAMES HILLER

J. MURRAY BECK

COLIN D. HOWELL

FRANCIS W.P. BOLGER

GEORGE MacBEATH

SEAN CADIGAN

IAN McKAY

J.M.S. CARELESS

D.A. MUISE

THOMAS J. CONDON

ROSEMARY OMMER

JEAN DAIGLE

JOHN G. REID

GWENDOLYN DAVIES

ERIC SAGER

JUDITH FINGARD

PETER B. WAITE

NAOMI GRIFFITHS

GRAEME WYNN

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ACADIENSIS

VOL. XXXV, NO. 1 AUTUMN/AUTOMNE 2005

CHRISTIAN BLAIS

Pérégrinations et conquête du sol (1755-1836) : l’implantation acadienne sur la rive nord de la Baie-des-Chaleurs 3

JUDITH FINGARD and JOHN RUTHERFORD The Politics of Mental Health Care in Nova Scotia: The Case of the Halifax County Hospital, 1940-1976 24

TIMOTHY D. LEWIS

Defeating the Farmers’ Efforts to Help Themselves: The Role of the State in the Collapse of the United Farmers Co-operative Company of New Brunswick, 1918-1922 50

JEFF A. WEBB

Who speaks for the public?: The Debate over Government or Private Broadcasting in Newfoundland, 1939-1949 74

HEIDI MacDONALD

PEI Women Attending University Off and On the Island to 1943 94

BRIAN PAYNE

Fishing the North Atlantic Border Seas: American Capital in a New Environment, 1818-1854 113

FORUM: THE QUEST OF THE FOLK

DAVID CREELMAN – Saying What You Mean: Form and Rhetoric in Ian McKay’s The Quest of the Folk .................................................... 132

STEPHEN DUTCHER – Reflections on Modernity and Antimodernism in Ian McKay’s The Quest of the Folk ........................................ 138

GREG MARQUIS – Commentary: The Quest of the Folk .................................. 144

MIRIAM WRIGHT – Images of the Fisher Folk in Newfoundland, 1900-1930s .. 148

IAN McKAY – The Quest @ 2006 ...................................................................... 152

RESEARCH NOTES/NOTES DE RECHERCHE

MONICA MacDONALD – Railway Tourism in the “Land of Evangeline”, 1882-1946 ..................................................................... 158

REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUES

W.G. GODFREY – The “trickle is worth noting”: Common Law and Consumerism in Early Newfoundland History ........................................................ 181

SHEILA ANDREW – Exploring the Acadian Identity: a Review of Naomi Griffiths’ From Migrant to Acadian ............................................................ 186