This thesis reviews the development and use of watermills from antiquity to the present, including the economic, environmental and social significance of milling during this time. More specifically, it explores the rise and fall of water-powered technology on two small islands with quite different w...

Rev. of A Happy Holiday: English-Canadians and Transatlantic Tourism, 1870-1930 by Cecilia Morgan

Its pastoral landscape has long permeated Prince Edward Island’ s tourist appeal and shaped its cultural identity. Nineteenth-century tourist promotion extolled the health benefits of sea breezes for travellers fleeing the summer swelter of urban America but, by the interwar period, tourism litera...

MacDonald examines how severe storms are remembered in regional oral traditions. He compares two 19th-century storms on Prince Edward Island, and explores why one is more vivid in cultural memory than the other.

Rev. of Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island: Imperial Dreams and the Defence of Property by Rusty Bittermann and Margaret McCallum

Rev. of Sir Andrew Macphail: The Life and Legacy of a Canadian Man of Letters by Ian Ross Robertson

In the winter of 1866 Prince Edward Island was swept by rumours of an attack by the Fenian Brotherhood, Irish American rebels intent on using an invasion of British North America to loosen Britain's hold on Ireland. Unlike other parts of British North America, the handling of the Fenian Scare o...

Rev. of Pulling Strings: Policy Insights for Prince Edward Island from other Sub-National Island Jurisdictions by Godfrey Baldacchino and Kathleen Stuart

The examination of a letter written by first Roman Catholic bishop of Prince Edward Island, the Scottish Highlander Angus Bernard MacEachern, written in 1832 to a former parishoner Angus Walker in which the bishop engages in clever code switching from English to Scottish Gaelic and back in order...

Rev. of The Paradise Island story, by Paul Albury. Second edition, revised by Anne and Jim Lawlor

Rev. of Connections: Newfoundland's Pre-Confederation Links with Canada and the World, by Malcolm MacLeod