W. Stewart MacNutt Memorial Lectures

The W. Stewart MacNutt Memorial Lectures honour the late historian, professor, and humanitarian for his work at UNB and his efforts to develop the history of the Atlantic Provinces as a field of study.

Year	Name of Lecturer	Title of Lecture
16 October 1980	Presented by Stuart Pierson; written by David Alexander	"Literacy and Economic Development in Nineteenth Century Newfoundland"
15 October 1981	John M. Bumsted	"The Household of Edward Jarvis: Victorian Family Life in the Maritime Provinces, 1830-1860"
9 February 1983	Alex Colville	"An Artist in the Maritimes"
1 February 1984	Judith Fingard	"Beyond the Halifax Barracks: The Social Context of Late Victorian Army Life"
13 November 1984	Naomi Griffiths	"Acadian Perceptions: Perceptions of Acadians"
7 November 1985	George Story	"A Tune Beyond Us As We Are: Reflections on Newfoundland Song and Ballad"
4 November 1986	George A. Rawlyk	"Fundamentalism, Modernism and the Maritime Baptists in the 1920s and 1930s"
20 October 1988	Robert H. Babcock	"The Saint John Longshoremen, 1880-1922"
16 November 1989	Margaret Conrad	"Atlantic Regional Protest in Caricature: The Political Cartoons of Donald McRitchie and Robert Chambers"
30 October 1990	Peter B. Waite	"Out of Albert County: R. B. Bennett Revisited"
5 November 1991	Peter Neary	"Yanks: How They Influenced the Course of Newfoundland History, 1940-1949"
23 November 1992	Gwendolyn Davies	"The World is Hers: Maritime New Women and the Literature of Social Change before World War I"
26 October 1993	Rosemary Ommer	"100 Years of Fishery Crisis in Newfoundland"
7 November 1994	Eric W. Sager	"Wooden Ships and Iron Men: The Golden Age of Sail Revisited"
22 November 1995	James A. Tuck	"A Glimpse at the Colony of Avalon: Lord Baltimore's First New World Plantation"
10 October 1996	Ian McKay	"Of Karl Marx and the Bluenose: In Search of Maritime Socialism"
12 November 1997	William Acheson	"Gentlemen, Farmers and Reformers: The Modernization of Agriculture in 19th Century New Brunswick"
27 October 1998	Colin D. Howell	"Two Outs: Writing about Sport and Maritime History"
19 October 1999	Peter Sinclair	"Household Labour is Doing Gender: The Sexual Division of Labour on the Bonavista Peninsula, Nfld."
8 November 2000	Priscilla Renouf	"Ancient Culture, Bountiful Seas: Five Thousand Years of Human Settlement on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland"
14 November 2001	Ian Stewart	"New Brunswick and the Elusive Canadian Identity"
16 October 2002	John G. Reid	"Viola Barnes (1885-1979): The Gender of History and the North Atlantic Mind"
8 October 2003	James W. St. G. Walker	"The Rights Revolution: Lessons from the Maritimes"
17 November 2004	George Elliott Clarke	"A. B. Walker and Anna Minerva Henderson: the Forebears of African-New Brunswick Literature"
23 November 2005	Anthony T. Charles	"Challenge and Change in the Atlantic Coastlines: Communities, Fisheries, and Managing Together"
3 October 2006	James K. Hiller	"Robert Bond and the Pink, White, and Green Flag: Some Reflections of Newfoundland as a Colony, Dominion, and Province"
29 October 2007	Robert Young	"Writing - and Not Writing - New Brunswick History"
17 November 2008	Suzanne Morton	"How Atlantic Canada Invented the Welfare State: Jane B. Wisdom, 1884-1974"
2 December 2009	Herménégilde Chaisson	"Eclectic Atlantic"
23 November 2010	Sylvia Hamilton	"When and Where I Enter: History, Film and Memory"
26 October 2011	Herb Wyile	"No Left-Turn at Tim Horton's: Atlantic Canada and Atlantic-Canadian Literature in the Neoliberal Era"
28 November 2012	Linda McQuaig	"The Trouble with Billionaires: How Extreme Inequality Thwarts the Common Good’
16 October 2013	Sean Cadigan	"Boom, Bust and Bluster: The Oil Daze of Newfoundland and Labrador, Atlantic Canada’s 'Have' Province"

Source(s):

UA Case 212.

W. Stewart MacNutt Memorial Lectures

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