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Title

Shaping an agenda for Atlantic Canada / edited by John G. Reid, Donald J. Savoie.

Publication

Halifax : Fernwood Pub., c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Reid, John G. (John Graham), 1948-
• Reid, John G., 1948-
• Savoie, Donald J.
• Savoie, Donald J., 1947-

Description

xvii, 362 p. : ill, maps, charts; 23 cm.

Summary

"Atlantic Canada stands at a crossroads. Slow population growth, political marginalization, an aging population and fiscal stress are among the most urgent issues. Faced with this reality, Atlantic Canadians must find a new way forward. Shaping an Agenda for Atlantic Canada offers the perspectives of authors from a variety of disciplines reflecting on historical and contemporary themes relevant to the future. The goal is not to offer glib diagnoses or instant solutions but rather to identify considerations that would enable Atlantic Canadians to shape an agenda. Re-examining key elements of the past is an essential starting point. Equally important is a contemporary analysis of the nature of those challenges. Through these complementary approaches, this book seeks to assist Atlantic Canadians in designing a road map leading into the future."--Page 4 of cover.

Subject

• Atlantic Provinces > History
• Atlantic Provinces

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: Shaping and Agenda / John G. Reid and Donald J. Savoie -- Introduction: Formuler un programme / John G. Reid et Donald J. Savoie -- Settler Imperialism and the Dispossession of the Maliseet, 1758-1765 / Andrea Bear Nicolas -- Response-Historical Analysis and Indigenous Dispossession / John G. Reid -- Atlantic Realities, Acadian Identities, Acadian Dreams / Maurice Basque -- Response-Et in Arcadia Ego / John Edwards -- Halifax, Hiroshima, and the Romance of Disaster / George Elliot Clarke -- Response-The Romance of Disaster/The Disaster of Romance: Historical Fiction and the Future of Atlantic Canada / Herb Wyile -- The Presence of the Past: Memory and Politics in Atlantic Canada since 2000 / Jerry Bannister and Roger Marsters -- Response-How Present the Past? Tourism, Commemoration, and Memory / Nicole Neatby -- Fail Again, Fail Better: Atlantic Canadians and their Pasts / Margaret Conrad and David Northrup --^
• Response-Usable Pasts, Useful Historians / Edward MacDonald -- Environmental Changes and Legacy in Atlantic Canada / Bill Freedman -- Response-Whither Daewoo? Environmental Changes in Atlantic Canada / Claire Campbell -- The New Federation and Atlantic Canada / James Bickerton -- Response-'Open Federalism' and the Provinces / Jennifer Smith -- Atlantic Canada: Myth or Reality? / Wade Locke -- Response-Region and Atlantic Canada / Ian Stewart -- Continuity and Change in Immigration Policy: Canada, Atlantic Canada and the Future of Citizenship / Alexandra Dobrowolsky and Evangelia Tastsoglou -- Response-Demographic Challenges for Atlantic Canada's Provinces: An Urban-Rural Analysis / Pierre-Marcel Desjardins -- Culture Corridors and Innovation: Opportunities for Atlantic Canada / Wayne Hunt -- Response-The Needs of Culture Producers / Sylvia D. Hamilton -- Reflections on Rural Development: An Atlantic Canada Perspective / Donald J. Savoie --^
• Response-Moving Beyond the Urban/Rural Divide in New Brunswick and Atlantic Canada / Tony Tremblay -- Conclusion / John G. Reid and Donald J. Savoie -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781552664490 (pbk.)
• 155266449X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011505482

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library