Contributors

Raymond B. Blake is professor and head of the Department of History at the University of Regina. He has published widely on Canadian history. His most recent publications include Lions or Jellyfish: A History of Newfoundland-Ottawa Relations and Celebrating Canada: Holidays, National Days and the Crafting of Identities, co-edited with Matthew Hayday.

Phillip Buckner is a professor emeritus at the University of New Brunswick where he taught for thirty-one years. He was founding editor of Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region, the founder of Acadiensis Press, and author/editor of a number of books and articles on the history of Atlantic Canada. A past President of the Canadian Historical Association, he also created and edited the series of CHA booklets on Canada’s ethnic groups. Since moving to England in 1999, he has served as a visiting professor at several research institutes and has edited/written a number of books and articles on Canada’s place within the British World.

Colin M. Coates teaches Canadian Studies and History at Glendon College, York University. A specialist in the history of French Canada, the history of utopias in Canada, and environmental history, he is currently working on a project on colonial statecraft under the French régime. He has edited or co-edited two collections in environmental history with the University of Calgary Press. He has also published The Metamorphoses of Landscape and Community in Early Quebec (McGill-Queen’s University Press) and with Cecilia Morgan, Heroines and History: Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord (University of Toronto Press).

Ken S. Coates is Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan. He holds a PhD in Canadian history from the University of British Columbia, where he studied Native-newcomer relations in the Yukon. He has taught at universities across Canada, including Brandon University, University of Victoria, University of Northern British Columbia, University of New Brunswick (Saint John), University of Saskatchewan, and University of Waterloo. Ken has written extensively on Northern and Canadian history and Indigenous affairs. His books include Best Left as Indians: Indian-White Relations in the Yukon, A Global History of Indigenous Peoples and, with Bill Morrison, such works as Land of the Midnight Sun: A History of the Yukon, The Alaska Highway in World War II, The Sinking of the Princess Sophia, among others. He is currently working on a study of the continental significance of the Klondike Gold Rush.

Barry Ferguson is Professor of History and the Duff Roblin Professor of Manitoba Government at the University of Manitoba. He has written on Canadian political ideas, contemporary Canadian society, and Prairie and Manitoba politics. His books include Remaking Liberalism: the Intellectual Legacy of Adam Shortt, O.D. Skelton, W.A. Mackintosh, and W.C. Clark (1993), Recent Social Trends in Canada (2006), Multicultural Variations (2013), and also Manitoba’s Premiers of the 19th and 20th Centuries (2010) co-edited with Robert Wardhaugh.

Maxime Gohier is a professor of history at the Université du Québec à Rimouski. A specialist of Aboriginal history during French and British rule, his research deals with the political history of Indigenous communities and their dealings with the state. His main interest is in Aboriginal political discourse as observed through diplomatic rituals and petitioning. He is equally interested in the toponomy of Indigenous places and the place occupied by Aboriginals in the Saint-Lawrence Valley during the seigneurial period. He is the author of Onontio le médiateur : la gestion des conflits amérindiens en Nouvelle-France (1603–1717).

Daniel Heidt, PhD, is the Project Manager for The Confederation Debates and the Manager of Research and Administration at The Centre on Foreign Policy and Federalism. The author of several academic articles, his doctoral research focused on Ontario federalism to 1896. He also has a strong interest in Arctic history, and has partnered with P. Whitney Lackenbauer to co-edit Two Years Below the Horn: Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty and The Advisory Committee on Northern Development: Context and Meeting Minutes, 1948–66.

P. Whitney Lackenbauer is a Professor in the Department of History at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of 1st Canadian Ranger Patrol Group based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. He is also a Fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute; the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary History; the Arctic Institute of North America; and the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies. His recent books include China’s Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada (co-authored, 2017), Blockades or Breakthroughs? Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State (co-edited 2014), A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North, 1870–1942 (edited 2014), The Canadian Rangers: A Living History, 1942–2012 (2013, shortlisted for the Dafoe prize), and Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North (co-authored 2008, winner of the 2009 Donner Prize). He is also co-editor of the Documents on Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security (DCASS) series and has contributed four volumes to it.

André Légaré holds a PhD from the Department of Geography at the University of Saskatchewan. He also holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Geography as well as a Master’s degree in Political Science from Laval University. For the past twenty-five years, he has written extensively on Indigenous self-government and on political development in the Canadian North. His research interests focus on Indigenous identity and on governance in Nunavut and in the Northwest Territories. André Légaré lives in Yellowknife, where he works as a chief negotiator on Indigenous land claims and self-government. He is also a research associate at the International Centre for Northern Governance and Development at the University of Saskatchewan.

Marcel Martel is professor and holder of the Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian History at York University in Toronto. He has published on public policy, language rights, and moral regulation. His most recent publications include Le Canada français et la Confédération. Fondements et bilan critique (with Jean-François Caron, Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2016), Canada the Good? A Short History of Vice Since 1500 (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014), Langue et politique au Canada et au Québec: Une synthèse historique with Martin Pâquet, Boréal, 2010), translated by Patricia Dumas: Speaking Up. A History of Language and Politics in Canada and Quebec (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2012). He has also published two collections of essays on Confederation: Globalizing Confederation: Canada and the World in 1867 (with Jacqueline D. Krikorian and Adrian Shubert, University of Toronto Press, 2017) and Roads to Confederation: The Making of Canada, 1867 (with Jacqueline D. Krikorian), and Vers la Confédération: La construction du Canada, 1867 (Jacqueline D. Krikorian, ed., Presses de l’Université Laval, 2017).

Martin Pâquet is a professor of history at Laval University and director of the Chaire pour le développement de la recherche sur la culture d’expression française en Amérique du Nord. A specialist in the history of political culture, migration, and cultures of North American Francophones, he has authored numerous works including Tracer les marges de la Cité. Étranger, immigrant et État au Québec (1626–1981) (Montreal, Boréal, 2010) as well as Langue et politique au Canada et au Québec: Une synthèse historique (with Marcel Martel, Montreal, Boréal, 2010).

J.R. Miller, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and professor emeritus at the University of Saskatchewan, has been studying the relationships between Aboriginal Peoples and non-Aboriginal “Newcomers” who have migrated to Canada over the last four centuries. He has written or co-authored nine books including Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada (1989), Shingwauk’s Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools (1996) as well as Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada (2009). Recently named an Officer of the Order of Canada, his engaged scholarship has been influential both inside and outside the university, deeply shaping Canadians’ understanding of issues such as treaty rights and residential schools, and encouraging Canadians—both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal—to rethink our history together and to envision our future together.

Patricia E. Roy is professor emerita of history at the University of Victoria. Her major work has been on the response of British Columbians and other Canadians to immigration from China and Japan. Her most recent book is Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia (2012).

Bill Waiser is an author and historian at the University of Saskatchewan who specializes in western Canadian history. He has published over a dozen books—many of them recognized by various awards. His most recent book, A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905, won the 2016 Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. Bill is a frequent public speaker and contributor to radio, television, and print media. He has also served on a number of national, provincial, and local boards. Bill has been awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, named a distinguished university professor, and granted a D.Litt.

Robert Wardhaugh is Professor of History at the University of Western Ontario. He has worked on national and Prairie politics and society in the twentieth century as well as contributed general studies on Canadian history. His books include Mackenzie King and the Prairie West (2000) and Behind the Scenes: The Life of William Clifford Clark (2010). He is the co-editor of Manitoba’s Premiers of the 19th and 20th Centuries (2010) as well as co-author of the two-volume survey of Canadian history, Origins and Destinies (2016).