WOMEN'S STUDIES IN FOCUS The Work of Margaret Conrad Suzanne Morton, Gwendolyn Davies, Gail Campbell, Bonnie Huskins, Alvin Finkel and Lyle Dick Introduction contributions through her own research, her SUZANNE MORTON is Associate Dean (Academic ability to synthesize grand narratives in Administration & Oversight) for the Faculty of Arts national and regional history, and her at McGill University. She is currently completing generous talents in creating and fostering her study of Canadian social work pioneer Jane intellectual communities. It is fitting that Wisdom. Atlantis hosts this collection in light of the key contribution she has made to feminist Historians are aware that our scholarship and to the lives of women within observations are always partial and the academy. incomplete. Only part of the story is ever told; At the conference, while wonderful elements are always left out and complexities images of Marg's life lit up the screen, a flattened out. The following five papers were packed audience listened to colleagues, co- originally prepared for a plenary organized by authors and friends speak on her impact as a Atlantis editor Linda Kealey at the 2009 political historian, a feminist scholar, a pioneer Atlantic Canada Studies Conference held in in creating modern Planter Studies, a Charlottetown to mark Margaret Conrad's textbook author and as a public historian and "official retirement" from the University of New citizen. Her ethical commitment to social Brunswick and to pay tribute to her productive justice, feminism, and diversity and promotion and expansive career. Focusing on her of Atlantic Canada are themes that unite the contributions to Planter Studies, political following papers and connect Marg's history, women's history, textbook writing, and scholarship, commitment to the public history, these papers testify to an democratization of history through the imaginative, productive, and wide-ranging dissemination of archival material through career which challenges any attempt at electronic texts, service to public boards and simple categorization. Additional papers could actions as a public intellectual. Whether be easily imagined, such as ones exploring through her biography of Annapolis Valley and celebrating Marg's contribution as a politician George Nowlan, her landmark teacher and mentor, public intellectual, articles such as "'Sundays Always Make Me cookbook writer, editor, or Atlantic Think of Home': Time and Place in Canadian Canadianist. Women's History," or her advocacy and Born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, skilled use of diaries, Gwendolyn Davies Margaret Conrad is a graduate of Acadia describes Margaret Conrad's scholarship as University and the University of Toronto. She located at the "intersection of research and taught in the history department at Acadia originality." Her outstanding organizational before moving to the University of New talents have helped create not only the Centre Brunswick to take up the Canada Research for Planter Studies at Acadia University and Chair (CRC) in Atlantic Canada Studies. A the Electronic Text Centre (ETC) at the Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an University of New Brunswick but also this very Officer of the Order of Canada, Margaret Journal and helped lay the foundation for Conrad has served as President of the Women's Studies in the Atlantic Region. Canadian Historical Association and on Noting Marg's interest in politics, but never as scores of federal boards. A founding editor of a traditional political historian, Gail Campbell Atlantis, she has made important scholarly also emphasizes her innovation and rejection 4 Atlantis 34.2, 2010 PR www.msvu.ca/atlantis of conventions. Bonnie Huskins, in her _____. Recording Angels: The Private contribution to this group of essays, explores Chronicles of Women from the Maritime not only Marg's feminist scholarship but also Provinces of Canada, 1750-1850. Ottawa: her insistence in bringing her feminist practice CRIAW, 1982. to teaching and service both with the university and wider community. As a _____."The Re-Birth of Canada's Past: A longtime collaborator with Margaret Conrad, Decade of W omen's History," Acadiensis 12.2 Alvin Finkel explores how her ideas have (Spring 1983): 141-62. shaped the way Canadian history is taught through the popular textbook The History of _____. "'Sundays Always Make Me Think of the Canadian Peoples. In the final essay, Lyle Home': Time and Place in Canadian Dick addresses the importance Marg has Women's History," Not Just Pin Money: placed on reaching the public and Selected Essays on the History of Women's championing public history through her public Work in British Columbia, B. K. Latham and service such as the Historic Sites and R. J. Pazdro, eds. Victoria: Camosun College, Monuments Board and her involvement in the 1984, pp. 1-16. Canadians and Their Past Project. At the end of this well-attended _____. George Nowlan: Maritime session where original versions of these Conservative in National Politics. Toronto: papers were read, Margaret Conrad said that University of Toronto Press, 1986. she did not recognize herself in what had been said. We hope that the readers of _____. "Out of the Kitchen and Into the Atlantis will recognize Marg Conrad in these Curriculum: W omen's Studies in Maritime papers, at the same time realizing that the Canada," Teaching Maritime Studies, P. portrait is still incomplete and partial. We Buckner, ed. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, learn little of Margaret Conrad as a dedicated 1986, pp. 108-18. and generous teacher, mentor or colleague. In her career Marg has never isolated nor _____, ed. They Planted Well: New England compartmentalized what matters to her. Planters in Maritime Canada. Fredericton: Rather, she has worked to integrate her Acadiensis Press, 1988. various identities and passions into a coherent whole with the objective of creating _____, T. Laidlaw and D. Smyth, eds. No an informed and often hopeful basis from Place Like Home: The Diaries and Letters of which to act in the present. Nova Scotia Women, 1771-1938. Halifax: Formac, 1988. Margaret Conrad, Selected Bibliography Atlantic Canada Virtual Archives: _____. "The Atlantic Revolution of the 1950s," http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/acva/en Beyond Anger and Longing: Community and < Edward Winslow Letters, 1783-1785 Development in Atlantic Canada, B. Fleming, (2005) ed. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1988, pp. < McQueen Family Letters, 1866-1930 55-96. (2005) < Loyalist Women in New Brunswick, _____. "The Canadian Encyclopedia of 1783-1827 (2008) Limitless Identities," Acadiensis 19.1 (Autumn < Black Loyalists in New Brunswick, 1989): 204-08. 1783-1854 (2008) < MacDonald Family Letters, 1779- _____, ed. Making Adjustments: Change and 1801 (2009) Continuity in Planter Nova Scotia: 1759-1800. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1991. _____. "W hen It W as Apple Blossom Time in the Annapolis Valley," Acadiensis 9.2 (Spring _____. "The Art of Regional Protest: The 1980): 14-39. Political Cartoons of Donald McRitchie, 1904- www.msvu.ca/atlantis PR Atlantis 34.2, 2010 5 1937," Acadiensis 21.1 (Autumn 1991): 5-21. ______. "'Not a Feminist But...': The Political Career of Ellen Louks Fairclough, Canada's _____. "The Politics of Place: Regionalism First Female Federal Cabinet Minister," and Community in Atlantic Canada," The Journal of Canadian Studies 31.2 (Summer Constitutional Future of the Prairie and 1996): 5-28. Atlantic Regions of Canada, J. McCrorie and M. MacDonald, eds. Regina: Canadian Plains ______. "Why I Am (Sometimes) A Research Center, University of Regina 1992, Separatist: A View from the Margin," Can pp. 18-36. Canada Survive? Under What Terms and Conditions? Transactions of the Royal Society _____. “Recording Angels: The Private of Canada 1996 - Sixth Series, Vol. VII, D. Chronicles of W omen from the Maritime Hayne, ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Provinces of Canada, 1750-1950," The Press, 1997, pp. 91-102. CRIAW Reader: Papers on Literary Productions by Canadian Women, D. Relke, ______, A. Finkel with C. Jaenen. History of ed. Ottawa: CRIAW/ICREF, 1992. the Canadian Peoples: Beginnings to 1867. 2nd ed. Don Mills: Addison-Wesley Longman, _____, A. Finkel and C. Jaenen. History of 1998. the Canadian Peoples: Beginnings to 1867. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1993. A. Finkel and M. Conrad. History of the Canadian Peoples: 1867 to the Present. 2nd A. Finkel, M. Conrad, with V. Strong-Boag. ed. Don Mills: Addison-Wesley Longman, History of the Canadian Peoples: 1867 to the 1998. Present. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1993. _____. "'But Such is Life': Growing Up in _____. "The Battle of the Cartoonists: The Nova Scotia in the Interwar Years," Journal of Cartoon Art of Donald McRitchie and Robert the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 2 Chambers in Halifax Newspapers, 1933- (1999): 1-26. 1937," Myth and Milieu: Atlantic Literature and Culture, 1918-1939, G. Davies, ed. ______ and J. Hiller. Atlantic Canada: A Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1993, pp. 17- Region in the Making. Toronto: Oxford 36. University Press, 2001. ______, ed. Intimate Relations: Family and _____ and B. Moody, eds. Planter Links: Community in Planter Nova Scotia: 1759- Community and Culture in Colonial Nova 1800. Fredericton, NB: Acadiensis Press, Scotia. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 2001. 1995. _____. "Mistaken Identities? Newfoundland ______, ed. Ellen Fairclough, Saturday's and Labrador in the Atlantic Region," Child: The Memoirs of Ellen Louks Fairclough, Newfoundland Studies 18.2 (Fall 2002): 159- Canada's First Female Federal Cabinet 74. Minister. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. _____ with J. Cleveland. "'But Such is Life in a Large City': Mary Dulhanty's Mount Saint ______. "Keep It Complex: Feminist Vincent Diary, 1926-27," The Small Details of Pedagogies in a Post-Modernist, Post- Life: Twenty Diaries by Women in Canada, Structuralist, Post-Colonialist, Post-Feminist 1830-1996, K. Carter, ed. Toronto: University World," Teaching Women's History: of Toronto Press, 2002. Challenges and Solutions, B. Bradbury, F. Iacovetta and J. Sangster, eds. Athabasca: _____ and A.