WOMEN'S STUDIES IN FOCUS
The Work of Margaret Conrad
Suzanne Morton, Gwendolyn Davies, Gail Campbell, Bonnie Huskins, Alvin Finkel and Lyle Dick

Introduction
SUZANNE MORTON is Associate Dean (Academic Administration &amp; Oversight) for the Faculty of Arts at McGill University. She is currently completing her study of Canadian social work pioneer Jane Wisdom.
Historians are aware that our observations are always partial and incomplete. Only part of the story is ever told; elements are always left out and complexities flattened out. The following five papers were originally prepared for a plenary organized by Atlantis editor Linda Kealey at the 2009 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference held in Charlottetown to mark Margaret Conrad's "official retirement" from the University of New Brunswick and to pay tribute to her productive and expansive career. Focusing on her contributions to Planter Studies, political history, wom en's history, textbook writing, and public history, these papers testify to an im aginative, productive, and wide-ranging career which challenges any attempt at sim ple categorization. Additional papers could be easily im agined, such as ones exploring and celebrating Marg's contribution as a teacher and mentor, public intellectual, cookbook writer, editor, or Atlantic Canadianist.
Born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Margaret Conrad is a graduate of Acadia University and the University of Toronto. She taught in the history departm ent at Acadia before moving to the University of New Brunswick to take up the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Atlantic Canada Studies. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Officer of the Order of Canada, Margaret Conrad has served as President of the Canadian Historical Association and on scores of federal boards. A founding editor of Atlantis, she has made important scholarly

contributions through her own research, her ability to synthesize grand narratives in national and regional history, and her generous talents in creating and fostering intellectual comm unities. It is fitting that Atlantis hosts this collection in light of the key contribution she has made to fem inist scholarship and to the lives of women within the academy.
At the conference, while wonderful im ages of Marg's life lit up the screen, a packed audience listened to colleagues, coauthors and friends speak on her impact as a political historian, a fem inist scholar, a pioneer in creating modern Planter Studies, a textbook author and as a public historian and citizen. Her ethical comm itm ent to social justice, fem inism , and diversity and prom otion of Atlantic Canada are themes that unite the following papers and connect Marg's scholarship, commitment to the democratization of history through the dissemination of archival material through electronic texts, service to public boards and actions as a public intellectual. W hether through her biography of Annapolis Valley politician George Nowlan, her landm ark articles such as "'Sundays Always Make Me Think of Home': Time and Place in Canadian W omen's History," or her advocacy and skilled use of diaries, Gwendolyn Davies describes Margaret Conrad's scholarship as located at the "intersection of research and originality." Her outstanding organizational talents have helped create not only the Centre for Planter Studies at Acadia University and the Electronic Text Centre (ETC) at the University of New Brunswick but also this very Journal and helped lay the foundation for W om en's Studies in the Atlantic Region. Noting Marg's interest in politics, but never as a traditional political historian, Gail Campbell also em phasizes her innovation and rejection

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of conventions. Bonnie Huskins, in her contribution to this group of essays, explores not only Marg's fem inist scholarship but also her insistence in bringing her feminist practice to teaching and service both with the university and wider comm unity. As a longtim e collaborator with Margaret Conrad, Alvin Finkel explores how her ideas have shaped the way Canadian history is taught through the popular textbook The History of the Canadian Peoples. In the final essay, Lyle Dick addresses the im portance Marg has placed on reaching the public and championing public history through her public service such as the Historic Sites and Monuments Board and her involvement in the Canadians and Their Past Project.
At the end of this well-attended session where original versions of these papers were read, Margaret Conrad said that she did not recognize herself in what had been said. W e hope that the readers of Atlantis will recognize Marg Conrad in these papers, at the sam e tim e realizing that the portrait is still incom plete and partial. W e learn little of Margaret Conrad as a dedicated and generous teacher, mentor or colleague. In her career Marg has never isolated nor com partmentalized what matters to her. Rather, she has worked to integrate her various identities and passions into a coherent whole with the objective of creating an inform ed and often hopeful basis from which to act in the present.

Margaret Conrad, Selected Bibliography

Atlantic Canada Virtual Archives:

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Edward W inslow Letters, 1783-1785

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McQueen Fam ily Letters, 1866-1930

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Loyalist W om en in New Brunswick,

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Black Loyalists in New Brunswick,

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MacDonald Fam ily Letters, 1779-

1801 (2009)

_____. "W hen It W as Apple Blossom Time in the Annapolis Valley," Acadiensis 9.2 (Spring 1980): 14-39.

_____. Recording Angels: The Private Chronicles of W omen from the Maritime Provinces of Canada, 1750-1850. Ottawa: CRIAW , 1982.
_____."The Re-Birth of Canada's Past: A Decade of W om en's History," Acadiensis 12.2 (Spring 1983): 141-62.
_____. "'Sundays Always Make Me Think of Hom e': Tim e and Place in Canadian W omen's History," Not Just Pin Money: Selected Essays on the History of Women's W ork in British Columbia, B. K. Latham and R. J. Pazdro, eds. Victoria: Camosun College, 1984, pp. 1-16.
_____. George Nowlan: Maritime Conservative in National Politics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986.
_____. "Out of the Kitchen and Into the Curriculum: W omen's Studies in Maritime Canada," Teaching Maritime Studies, P. Buckner, ed. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1986, pp. 108-18.
_____, ed. They Planted Well: New England Planters in Maritime Canada. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1988.
_____, T. Laidlaw and D. Sm yth, eds. No Place Like Home: The Diaries and Letters of Nova Scotia W omen, 1771-1938. Halifax: Formac, 1988.
_____. "The Atlantic Revolution of the 1950s," Beyond Anger and Longing: Community and Development in Atlantic Canada, B. Fleming, ed. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1988, pp. 55-96.
_____. "The Canadian Encyclopedia of Lim itless Identities," Acadiensis 19.1 (Autum n 1989): 204-08.
_____, ed. Making Adjustments: Change and Continuity in Planter Nova Scotia: 1759-1800. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1991.
_____. "The Art of Regional Protest: The Political Cartoons of Donald McRitchie, 1904-

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1937," Acadiensis 21.1 (Autumn 1991): 5-21.
_____. "The Politics of Place: Regionalism and Com m unity in Atlantic Canada," The Constitutional Future of the Prairie and Atlantic Regions of Canada, J. McCrorie and M. MacDonald, eds. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina 1992, pp. 18-36.
_____. “Recording Angels: The Private Chronicles of W omen from the Maritime Provinces of Canada, 1750-1950," The CRIAW Reader: Papers on Literary Productions by Canadian W omen, D. Relke, ed. Ottawa: CRIAW /ICREF, 1992.
_____, A. Finkel and C. Jaenen. History of the Canadian Peoples: Beginnings to 1867. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1993.
A. Finkel, M. Conrad, with V. Strong-Boag. History of the Canadian Peoples: 1867 to the Present. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1993.
_____. "The Battle of the Cartoonists: The Cartoon Art of Donald McRitchie and Robert Chambers in Halifax Newspapers, 19331937," Myth and Milieu: Atlantic Literature and Culture, 1918-1939, G. Davies, ed. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1993, pp. 1736.
______, ed. Intimate Relations: Family and Community in Planter Nova Scotia: 17591800. Fredericton, NB: Acadiensis Press, 1995.
______, ed. Ellen Fairclough, Saturday's Child: The Memoirs of Ellen Louks Fairclough, Canada's First Female Federal Cabinet Minister. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.
______. "Keep It Complex: Feminist Pedagogies in a Post-Modernist, PostStructuralist, Post-Colonialist, Post-Fem inist W orld," Teaching W omen's History: Challenges and Solutions, B. Bradbury, F. Iacovetta and J. Sangster, eds. Athabasca: Athabasca University, 1995, pp. 115-27.

______. "'Not a Fem inist But...': The Political Career of Ellen Louks Fairclough, Canada's First Female Federal Cabinet Minister," Journal of Canadian Studies 31.2 (Sum m er 1996): 5-28.
______. "W hy I Am (Som etim es) A Separatist: A View from the Margin," Can Canada Survive? Under W hat Terms and Conditions? Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 1996 - Sixth Series, Vol. VII, D. Hayne, ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997, pp. 91-102.
______, A. Finkel with C. Jaenen. History of the Canadian Peoples: Beginnings to 1867. 2nd ed. Don Mills: Addison-W esley Longm an, 1998.
A. Finkel and M. Conrad. History of the Canadian Peoples: 1867 to the Present. 2nd ed. Don Mills: Addison-W esley Longm an, 1998.
_____. "'But Such is Life': Growing Up in Nova Scotia in the Interwar Years," Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 2 (1999): 1-26.
______ and J. Hiller. Atlantic Canada: A Region in the Making. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2001.
_____ and B. Moody, eds. Planter Links: Community and Culture in Colonial Nova Scotia. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 2001.
_____. "Mistaken Identities? Newfoundland and Labrador in the Atlantic Region," Newfoundland Studies 18.2 (Fall 2002): 15974.
_____ with J. Cleveland. "'But Such is Life in a Large City': Mary Dulhanty's Mount Saint Vincent Diary, 1926-27," The Small Details of Life: Twenty Diaries by W omen in Canada, 1830-1996, K. Carter, ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
_____ and A. Finkel. History of the Canadian Peoples: Beginnings to 1867. 3rd ed. Toronto: Pearson Longman, 2002.

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_____ and A. Finkel. History of the Canadian Peoples: 1867 to the Present, 3rd ed. Toronto: Pearson Longman, 2002.
_____ and A. Finkel. Canada: A National History. Toronto: Pearson Longman, 2003.
_____ and A. Finkel. "Textbook W ars: Canadian Style," Canadian Issues (October 2003): 12-15.
_____. "W hat's Governance Got to Do W ith It? Two Investigations into the State of Atlantic Canada," Acadiensis 33.1 (Autumn 2003): 8796.
_____. "Addressing the Dem ocratic Deficit: W omen and Political Culture in Atlantic Canada," Atlantis: A W omen's Studies Journal 27.2 (2003): 82-89.
_____ and A. Finkel, eds. Nation and Society: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History. Toronto: Pearson Longman, 2004.
_____ and J. Hiller. Atlantic Canada: a Concise History. Don Mills, Ont: Oxford University Press, 2006.
_____. "Regionalism in a Flat W orld," Acadiensis 35.2 (Spring 2006): 138-43.
_____ and A. Finkel. History of the Canadian Peoples: Beginnings to 1867. 4th ed. Toronto: Pearson Longman, 2006.
_____ and A. Finkel. History of the Canadian Peoples: 1867 to the Present. 4th ed. Toronto: Pearson Longman, 2006.
_____ and A. Finkel. Canada: A National History. 2nd ed. Toronto: Pearson Longman, 2007.
_____. "2007 Presidential Address of the CHA: Public History and Its Discontents," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 18.1 (2007): 2-36.
_____. "History Does Matter: The Future of the Past in Atlantic Canada," Literary Review of Canada (October 2008): 3-5.

_____ and A. Finkel, eds. Foundations: Readings in Pre-Confederation Canadian History. 2nd ed. Toronto: Pearson Education Canada, 2008.
_____ and A. Finkel, eds. Nation and Society: Readings in Post-Confederation History. 2nd ed. Toronto: Pearson Education Canada, 2008.
_____, J. Letourneau and D. Northrup, "Canadians and Their Pasts: An Exploration in Historical Consciousness," The Public Historian 31.1 (February 2009): 15-34.
_____ and A. Finkel. History of the Canadian Peoples: Beginnings to 1867. 5th ed. Toronto: Pearson Education Canada, 2009.
_____ and A. Finkel. History of the Canadian Peoples: 1867 to the Present. 5th ed. Toronto: Pearson Education Canada, 2009.
_____"Remem bering Firsts: Female Politicians in the Atlantic Provinces in the Twentieth Century," Making Up the State: W omen in 20th Century Atlantic Canada, J. Guildford and S. Morton, eds. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, forthcoming.