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Toronto: W omen and Political Culture in Atlantic Pearson Education Canada, 2009. Canada," Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal 27.2 (2003): 82-89. _____ and A. Finkel. History of the Canadian Peoples: 1867 to the Present. 5th ed. Toronto: _____ and A. Finkel, eds. Nation and Society: Pearson Education Canada, 2009. Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History. Toronto: Pearson Longman, 2004. _____"Remembering Firsts: Female Politicians in the Atlantic Provinces in the _____ and J. Hiller. Atlantic Canada: a Twentieth Century," Making Up the State: Concise History. Don Mills, Ont: Oxford Women in 20th Century Atlantic Canada, J. University Press, 2006. Guildford and S. Morton, eds. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, forthcoming. _____. "Regionalism in a Flat World," __________ Acadiensis 35.2 (Spring 2006): 138-43. Margaret Conrad: Planter and _____ and A. Finkel. History of the Canadian Peoples: Beginnings to 1867. 4th ed. Toronto: Loyalist Contributions Pearson Longman, 2006. GWENDOLYN DAVIES, FRSC, is Professor and Dean Emerita in English and the School of Graduate Studies, University of New Brunswick. Having _____ and A. Finkel. History of the Canadian spent the 2008-09 academic year as Visiting th Peoples: 1867 to the Present. 4 ed. Toronto: Fellow in Book History at Massey College, Pearson Longman, 2006. University of Toronto, and Academic Visitor, St. Hilda's College, Oxford University, she is currently _____ and A. Finkel. Canada: A National working on books on Loyalist women and Loyalist History. 2nd ed. Toronto: Pearson Longman, printers. 2007. Abstract _____. "2007 Presidential Address of the This paper examines Margaret Conrad's CHA: Public History and Its Discontents," central contributions to the fields of Planter Journal of the Canadian Historical Association and Loyalist Studies, underlining her 18.1 (2007): 2-36. combination of originality in research and commitment to making this history accessible _____. "History Does Matter: The Future of to the general public. the Past in Atlantic Canada," Literary Review of Canada (October 2008): 3-5. www.msvu.ca/atlantis PR Atlantis 34.2, 2010 7 Résumé ice cream and ginger Christmas cakes are Cet article étudie les contributions centrales uniquely regional. de Margaret Conrad dans le domaine des Finally, as I read the side notes to the études Planteurs et des études Loyalistes, Glenaladale Christmas Cake recipe, I am soulignant sa combinaison d'originalité dans drawn to the verb "invent" in the margin. What la recherche et son engagement à rendre cake baker dare "invent"? Yet Margaret, just cette histoire accessible au grand public. as she does with her students, just as she does with her own research, pushes against conformity to get an interesting result. Who Whether imaginatively resurrecting else would say: "Forget raisins in your traditional recipes (The Joy of Ginger), editing Christmas cake. Try blueberries." Maritime women's diaries, stimulating In the long run, what we have in research into the 1760 Planter Maritime Margaret's Glenaladale Christmas cake migration (They Planted Well), or leading recipe is the intersection of research and virtual archives projects (Loyalist Women in originality - a combination that she has New Brunswick; Black Loyalists), Margaret brought to every endeavour that she has Conrad has made enduring contributions to undertaken, whether creating a cookbook, Planter and Loyalist scholarship. helping to set up a Centre for Planter Studies In her co-authored cookbook, The at Acadia University, or working with the Joy of Ginger, Margaret Conrad includes a Electronic Text Centre (ETC) at the University recipe for Glenaladale Christmas Cake, a of New Brunswick (UNB) to resuscitate the dark fruitcake rich with inventiveness. As a marginalized lives of Loyalist women and recipe, it bears many of the characteristics Black Loyalists. I have been privileged to that have been hallmarks of Margaret's career know Margaret in all these roles - to have as an historian. It is, she informs us in the been living in Wolfville when she and Heather liner notes, a tried and true recipe originally MacDonald were testing recipes for their obtained from a cook at Macdonald College in cookbook at special Friday night dinners; to Montreal, for many years the seat of have moved to Acadia from Mount Allison in household science training in Canada. In 1988 just as the Planter Studies Centre, with other words, the recipe for this cake, typical of Barry Moody and Margaret at its core, Margaret's approach to any subject, is planned conferences, published proceedings, founded on research. It is also, she adds, a and stimulated public outreach; and, in the recipe inherited from her grandmother, Laura past eight years, to have been part of the Slauenwhite, of Lunenburg County. The University of New Brunswick's infrastructure recipe is, then, an enduring manifestation of when Margaret joined the faculty as a Tier 1 women's work, of women's stories, of Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Atlantic women's legacies handed down from one Canada Studies. As at Acadia, she has been generation to the next. Like the diaries that a catalyst at UNB in stimulating projects and have formed such a strong core of Margaret's research, this time in Loyalist Studies. And, in academic writing, this cookbook and its the process, she has successfully applied for recipes have resonance as part of a pattern of national research funds that have generated cultural continuity. a series of exciting projects, including a But this cake, unlike most Christmas re-assessment of the importance of the cakes, contains ginger - indeed, a cup of it - Edward Winslow letters, an eighteenth to an ingredient elemental in the infrastructure of nineteenth-century collection, valued at a nineteenth-century Maritime trade and million dollars, that had been languishing in domestic use. Like molasses, ginger was a Archives and Special Collections until staple in the region, a spice brought from Margaret reminded people of their liveliness exotic climes in exchange for dried cod, and and importance. it is typical of the understanding of cultural In terms of the continuity of period patterns that Margaret brings to her analysis and subject matter, there seems to be an of Maritime history that she knows that ginger almost seamless line between what Margaret 8 Atlantis 34.2, 2010 PR www.msvu.ca/atlantis helped to achieve in the creation of Planter organization represent Margaret's excellent Studies at Acadia and what she has editing skills. It may not be well known that, stimulated in Loyalist Studies at UNB. In an early in her career, she was an editor for unexpected way, the late historian, Esther Clarke Irwin, and, ever since, she has brought Clark Wright, is a common thread between to her own writing, and to her editing of these two parts of Margaret's influence and collections such as those in the Planter career. Born in Fredericton, the daughter of a series, a level of acumen, meticulous former Lieutenant Governor of New research, and clarity of expression that are Brunswick - a PhD graduate of Radcliffe at highly professional. They Planted Well: New Harvard, known for landmark books such as England Planters In Maritime Canada reflects Planters and Pioneers (1978) and the Margaret's sure editorial hand in all of these Loyalists of New Brunswick (1955) - Esther categories, and, in an insightful introduction, Clark Wright lived within walking distance of puts to rest the term "pre-Loyalist" for the the Beveridge Arts Centre at Acadia (indeed, Planters forever. The final words of the book the Acadia Archives is named in her memory). -"Hang on to your spelling!" - are those of It was at her house, over tea sometime in the Esther Clark Wright to the assembled 1970s, recalls Barry Moody (for many years conference after being made the first Planter Chair of the History Department at Acadia), Scholar in the Planter Studies Centre. that he, Margaret, and Dr. Wright spoke with Whether we can honour that charge in the enthusiasm about the scholarly work waiting age of Google remains to be seen. to be done on the approximately 8000 There are many highlights that Planters who had immigrated to Nova Scotia emerge from the successive Planter between 1759 and 1774. It was there, he Conferences and from the proceedings: feels, with the support of former President Making Adjustments: Change and Continuity Watson Kirkconnell, that the idea for a Planter in Planter Nova Scotia: 1759-1800 (1991) and Studies Committee (established in the History Intimate Relations: Family and Community in Department in 1983) and, more importantly, a Planter Nova Scotia: 1759-1800 (1995), both Planter Studies Centre, was conceived. edited by Margaret (she has also, more Today, the Centre has been operating as a recently, co-edited a fourth volume with Barry stimulus for Planter research for more than Moody). In her introductions to the various twenty years, but, "without Margaret," noted volumes, she not only reminds us of the new Barry Moody in a telephone conversation on research emerging in the papers of the 29 April 2009, "Planter Studies would not collections but also the exciting artistic and have happened.