web list of pubs and exhibits

BOOKS
2013
Ni'n na L'nu: The Mi'kmaq of Prince Edward Island.
Charlottetown: Acorn Press. Co-written with Jesse Francis.
2013
Louisbourg: Past, Present, Future: Halifax: Nimbus Publishing.
2012
Thomas, A Secret Life. Sydney: Cape Breton University Press.
2011
1758 : La finale. Promesses, Splendeur et Désolation dans la dernière décennie de Louisbourg. Québec :
Presses de l’Université Laval.
2007
Endgame 1758. The Promise, The Glory and The Despair of Louisbourg’s Final Decade
Lincoln, Nebraska and Sydney, NS: University of Nebraska Press and Cape Breton Univeristy Press.
2004
Storied Shores: St. Peter’s, Isle Madame and Chapel Island in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Sydney:
University College of Cape Breton Press.
2004
Grand-Pré, Heart of Acadie. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing. Co-authored with W. P. Kerr.
Grand-Pré, Coeur de l’Acadie. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2004. traduit par Sylvain Filion.
2004
Louisbourg, An 18th-Century Town. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing.
Co- authored with Kenneth Donovan, B.A. Balcom and Alex storm. Originally published in 1991.
2001
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Control & Order: The Evolution of French Colonial Louisbourg, 1713-1758.
East Lansing: Michigan State
University Press.
1997
Louisbourg: The Phoenix Fortress. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing.
Photographs by Chris Reardon. Originally
published in 1990.
Louisbourg, Reflets d’une époque. Traduit par Robert Pichette. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing,.
1996
Life and Religion at Louisbourg, 1713-1758. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press. [Previously
published in 1984 as Religion in Life at Louisbourg, 1713-1758.
1995
Tracks Across the Landscape: A Commemorative History of the S&L Railway
Sydney: UCCB Press. Co-Authored with Brian Campbell.
1988
La religion dans la vie à Louisbourg (1713-1758). Ottawa: Environnement Canada,.
1986
From the Hearth: Recipes from the World of 18th-Century Louisbourg.
Sydney: University College of Cape Breton Press. Co-authored with Hope Dunton.
1983
The Summer of 1744, A Portrait of Life in 18th-Century Louisbourg.
Ottawa: Parks Canada.
L'Été de 1744: La vie quotidienne à Louisbourg au XVIIIe siècle. Ottawa: Parcs Canada.
1981
Defending Halifax: Ordnance, 1825-1906. Ottawa: Parks Canada.
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La défense de Halifax: artillerie, 1825-1906. Ottawa: Parcs Canada.
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Interpretive Writing (Camus Productions)
Black Loyalist Heritage Centre, Birchtown, Nova Scotia, concept development, 2011-2012.
Colchester Historeum, Truro, Nova Scotia, concept development, 2012.
Black Cultural Centre, Dartmouth, NS, Concept and Installation, 2011.
N’in Na L’nu: The Mi'kmaq of PEI – Travelling exhibit, from Concept Development to Fabrication,
2011-2013.
Yarmouth and Acadian Shores – exhibits installed at Le Musée des Acadiens, Le Village Historique
acadien, Cape Forchu, Yarmouth County Museum and the Église sainte-Anne Church, 2010.
History Articles
"Les Mi'kmaqs," dans Annick Notter, ed., Les fils de l'oiseau-tonnerre, Les Indiens de
l'est. La Rochelle: Musée du Nouveau Monde, 2013, pp. 36-42.
"The Overlooked Importance of the Turning Points before Quebec, 1759," The Nashwaak
Review, Vol. 27/28, No. 1, (Summer / Fall, 2012), pp. 298-306.
"Thinking Green (and not) in Eighteenth-Century Louisbourg," The Nashwaak Review,
Vol. 27/28, No. 1, (Summer / Fall, 2012), pp. 316-322.
"Land & Sea & Louisbourg: 5000 Years and Counting", The Nashwaak Review, Vol.
26/27, No. 1, (Summer / Fall, 2011), pp. 209-245.
"Foreword," pp. iii-v, in W.P. Kerr, History Etched in Stone, Gravestone Art and the
Annapolis Graveyard at Annapolis Royal. Kingston, Ontario: Canadian Defence
Academy Press, 2011.
“La Déportation acadienne dans un contexte comparatif : une introduction”, traduit par
Robert Pichette, Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, Vol. 40, No. 1 (2009),
pp.4-27.
“A ‘Canadian Atlantic’, Yes and No”, International Journal of Maritime History, Vol.
21, No. 1 (June 2009), pp. 9-11.
“Marked by the State: Canada’s Commemoration of Aboriginal History, 1867-2004”
Nashwaak Review, (Spring/Summer 2009), pp. 507-526.
“Défricheurs d'eau: An Introduction to Acadian Land Reclamation in a Comparative
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Context,” Material Culture Review, No. 66 (Fall 2007), pp. 34-43.
“History and Historic Sites: Reflections on the Disconnect,” Nashwaak Review, Vol.
18/19, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2007), 268-277.
“The Acadian Deportation in a Comparative Context: An Introduction,” Journal of the
Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. 10 (2007), pp. 114-131.
“Missions to the Mi’kmaq: Malagawatch and Chapel Island in the 18th Century,” Journal
of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. 9 (2006), pp. 115-140. Co-written with
B. A. (Sandy) Balcom.
“In the Name of the King: The Monarchical Atmosphere of French Colonial Louisbourg,
1713-1758”, in Colin Coates, ed., Majesty in Canada, Essays on the Role of Royalty.
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2006.
“French Attitudes Toward the Acadians, ca. 1680-1756,” in Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, ed.,
Du Grand Dérangement à la Déportation, nouvelles perspectives historiques Moncton :
Chaire d’études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 2005, pp. 131-166.
Articles on “Evangeline”, “Louisbourg”, and “Nova Scotia” in Bill Marshall, ed., France
and The Americas: Culture, History, Politics. Oxford & Santa Barbara: ABC–Clio, 2005)
“Fortress, Seaport, Community: Three Faces of 18th-Century Louisbourg,” Le Journal
(Center for French Colonial Studies in the Midwest of the U.S., 2005). Reprint of an
article originally published in the Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society,
Vol. 7 (2004).
“La séduction de l'archétype face au défi de l'histoire de l'Acadie” (traduit par Robert
Pichette), Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, Vol. 36, no. 1 (mars 2005), PP.
12-46. (Reprint in French of article, “The Call of the Archetype…”, that appeared in
Vol. 5 of French Colonial History.)
“Courts, Crimes, Criminals, Victims and Punishments: Louisbourg, 1713-1758,” Cahiers
Aixois d’Histoire des droits de l’Outre-Mer Français, No. 2 (Aix-en-Provence: Presses
universitaires d’Aix-Marseille, 2004).
“Fortress, Seaport, Community: Three Faces of 18th-Century Louisbourg,” Journal of the
Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. 7 (2004).
“Imagining Paradise: The Visual Depiction of Pre-Deportation Acadia, 1850-2000,”
Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 38, No. 2 (May 2004).
“The Call of the Archetype and the Challenge of Acadian History,” French Colonial
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History, Vol. 5, (2004), pp. 63-92.
“Is There Room for Religion at Secular Sites? The Case Study of the Fortress of
Louisbourg,” ALHFAM, Proceedings of 2002 Conference and Annual Meeting, Vol.
XXV (2003).
“Borderland Worries: Loyalty Oaths in Acadie / Nova Scotia, 1654-1755,” French
Colonial History, Vol. 4 (2003).
“Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban: Reflections on his Fame, his Fortifications, and his
Influence in New France,”French Colonial History, Vol. 3 (2002).
“D’autres serments de loyauté en Acadie,” Les cahiers de la Société historique
acadienne, Vol. 33, no. 3 (septembre 2002).
“Alcohol Consumption at Louisbourg (and the vain attempts to control it)”
French Colonial History, Vol. 2 (2002).
“To Mark and To Celebrate: Commemoration Efforts at Eighteenth-Century
Louisbourg,” French Colonial History, Vol. 1 (2002).
“Chapel Island / Potlotek / Ile de la Sainte-Famille (Cape Breton Island),” Agenda Paper
for the HSMBC, Spring 2002. Co-authored with B. A. Balcom.
“Un regard neuf sur les Acadiens de l’Île Royale,” Les cahiers de la Société historique
acadienne, Vol. 32, no. 3 (septembre 2001).
“Mathieu Da Costa along the Coasts of Nova Scotia? Some Possibilities,” Journal of the
Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. 4, 2001.
“Past/Present/Future: Marking Louisbourg,” Material History Review (No. 50, Fall
1999).
“Toward a New Past: Interpretation of Native History within Parks Canada,”
CRM, Vol. 17, No. 9 (1994); National Parks Service publication (Washington, D. C.)
“From port de pêche to ville fortifiée: The Evolution of Urban Louisbourg, 1713-1758,”
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society,
Chicago, May 1991, ed. by Patricia Galloway. Lanham: University Press of America,
1993. Reprinted in Krause, Eric, Carol Corbin and William O'Shea, eds., Aspects of
Louisbourg: Essays on the History of an Eighteenth-Century French Community in North
America. Sydney: UCCB Press, 1995.
“Louisbourg: Canada's Phoenix Fortress,” FORTRESS, The Castles and Fortifications
Quarterly, No. 13 (May 1992).
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“The People of Eighteenth-Century Louisbourg,” Nova Scotia Historical Review. Vol.
11, No. 2 (December 1991). Reprinted in Krause et al, Aspects of Louisbourg.
“The Early Days of the Lobster Fishery in Atlantic Canada,” Material History Review
No. 33 (Spring, 1991).
“Desertion, treason and the concept of loyalty on the Frontier of New France,”
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Societ,
Martinique and Guadeloupe, May 1989, ed. by Patricia Galloway and Philip P. Boucher.
Lanham: University Press of America, 1992).
“Nativism in Nova Scotia: Anti-Irish Ideology in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century British
Colony,” in Thomas P. Power, ed., The Irish in Atlantic Canada, 1780-1900. Fredericton:
New Ireland Press, 1991.
“Into the Great War: Katharine McLennan Goes Overseas, 1915-1919,” in Kenneth
Donovan, ed., The Island: New Perspectives on Cape Breton's History, 1713-1975.
Fredericton and Sydney: Acadiensis and UCCB Press, 1990.
“The Men of the Garrison: Soldiers and their Punishment at Louisbourg, 1751-53,” Nova
Scotia Historical Review. Vol. 10, No. 2 (1990).
“The Fishermen of Eighteenth-Century Cape Breton: Numbers and Origins,”
Nova Scotia Historical Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 (1989). Reprinted in Krause et al, Aspects
of Louisbourg.
“Avant les Loyalistes - les Acadiens dans la région de Sydney, 1749-1754,” Les cahiers
de la société historique acadienne, Vol. 19, no. 3 (juillet-septembre, 1988).
“History Painting: The Creation of Interpretive Tableaux,” Material History Bulletin,
No. 27 (Spring, 1988).
"A Vanished Era: The Petersfield Estate of J.S. McLennan, 1900-42," in Kenneth
Donovan, ed., Cape Breton at 200: Essays in Honour of the Island's Bicentennial, 1785 1985. Sydney: UCCB Press, 1985.
“Popery and Progress: Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia,”
Dalhousie Review, Vol. 64, No.1 (Spring 1984).
“Education and Female Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Louisbourg: The Work of the
Soeurs de la Congrégation de Notre-Dame,” in J.D. Wilson, ed., An Imperfect Past:
Education and Society in Canadian History. Vancouver: U.B.C. Curriculum Centre,
1984.
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“Deux Récollets de l'Ile Royale,” Chroniques et Documents, Vol.37, No.1 (janvier 1984).
"Commemorating Louisbourg, c.1767," Acadiensis Vol. XII, No. 2 (Spring 1984).
Reprinted in Krause et al, Aspects of Louisbourg.
“Preserving History: The Commemoration of 18th-Century Louisbourg, 1895-1940,”
Acadiensis, Vol. XII, No. 2 (Spring 1983). Reprinted in Krause et al, Aspects of
Louisbourg.
“The Frères de la Charité and the Louisbourg Hôpital du Roi,”" Study Sessions of the
Canadian Catholic Historical Association, No.48 (1981).
“Formal Education at Colonial Louisbourg,” Research Bulletin No. 136. Ottawa: Parks
Canada, 1979.
"Zacharie Caradec", "Athanase Guégot", "Boniface Vimeux" - Biographies of two
Récollets de Bretagne and one Frère de la Charité de l’Ordre de Saint-Jean-de-Dieu, done
for the Dictionary of Canadian Biography (for the future re-edition of Vol. III)
Review of John Grenier, The Far Reaches of Empire, War in Nova Scotia, 1710-1760, in
the New England Quarterly (2008).
Review of Chris M. Hand, The Siege of Fort Beauséjour, 1755 and Roger Sarty and
Doug Knight, Saint John Fortifications, 1630-1956, in the Journal of Military History
(2005).
Review of Christopher Moore, Louisbourg Portraits in the Canadian Historical Review
(March 1983).
"D-Day at Louisbourg,” The Beaver, (June / July 2008).
Review in The Beaver of Charlotte Gray, Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and
Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell (October/November 2006)
“Seaside Potager. The Kitchen Gardens of 18th-Century Louisbourg,”
Gardening Life. Canada’s Magazine for the Gardener (Fall/Winter 1997)
“Cape Breton,” Canadian House and Home (April 1992)
“Before the Loyalists: Acadians in the Sydney Area, 1749-1754,” Cape Breton's
Magazine (No. 48, June 1988)
“Sydney Looks to its Past,” Atlantic Advocate (May 1987)
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“Discovery,” Legion (June 1986)
“Lady Artists of Cape Breton: L.B.McLennan and Hetty Kimber,”
Canadian Collector (March/April 1986)
“Canada's First Lighthouse,” Atlantic Advocate (February 1986)
“Louisbourg: The Twists of Time,” The Beaver (Summer 1985)
“He Brings Our Past to Life,” Reader's Digest (Sept. 1984)
“Lewis Parker: Painting Canada's Past,” The Beaver (Winter 1983)
“239 Years Later, Was He Guilty?” Atlantic Advocate (August 1983)
“Petersfield: Storied Past to be Preserved in New Park,” Atlantic Advocate (March, 1983)
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