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 The Lives of Dalhousie, volume 2: The Old College Transformed, 1925-1980

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

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

Rev. of Memories of the old home place: Prince Edward Island, by F.W.P. Bolger, Wayne Barrett and Anne MacKay

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...