Margaret Conrad is Professor Emerita at the University of New Brunswick. A member of Acadia University's history department from 1969 to 2002, she held Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University from 1996 to 1998 and the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies at the University of New Brunswick from 2002 to 2009. She has published widely in the fields of Atlantic Canadian History, Women's Studies, and Humanities Computing. Her recent publications include A Concise History of Canada (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and, with James K. Hiller, Atlantic Canada: A History (Oxford University Press, 2015). She is a co-author of Canadians and Their Pasts (University of Toronto Press, 2013), which explores how Canadians engage the past in their everyday lives, drawing on interviews with more than 3400 Canadians, and is coauthor with Heather MacDonald of a cookbook, The Joy of Ginger, 2nd ed. (Nimbus, 2013). A founding member of Acadia University's Planter Studies Centre, Professor Conrad has edited four books on the New England Planters, eighteenth-century settlers in Nova Scotia. She was a founding member of the editorial board of Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal and served as its co-editor from 1977 to 1985. She also co-edited the Canadian Historical Review from 1997 to 2000 and was president of the Canadian Historical Association from 2005 to 2007. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1995 and appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2004.
Alvin Finkel is Professor Emeritus at Athabasca University in Alberta. He has published extensively on the history of labour, social policy, left-wing politics, and western Canada. His books include Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Working People in Alberta: A History (AU Press, 2012), Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History (Laurier, 2006), Our Lives: Canada After 1945 (Lorimer, 1997, 2012), The Chamberlain—Hitler Collusion (with Clement Leibovitz, Lorimer, 1997), The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta (University of Toronto Press, 1989), and Business and Social Reform in the Thirties (Lorimer, 1979). He is co-editor of The West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region (Athabasca University Press, 2010). He was editor of Prairie Forum from 1984 to 1993 and book review editor for Labour/Le Travail from 2000 to 2011, and he has served on the editorial boards of other scholarly publications and presses, including serving as the founding chair of the editorial committee for Athabasca University Press from 2006 to 2013. He was president of the Canadian Association of Learned Journals (1994—95), was president of the Canadian Committee on Labour History (2008—14), and has been president of the Alberta Labour History Institute since 2016.
Donald Fyson is full professor at the Département des sciences historiques of Université Laval in Quebec City. He is a specialist in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth century Quebec history, with a focus on social, socio legal, socio-political, and urban history. He is particularly interested in the relationship between state, law, and society, especially as seen through the criminal and civil justice system, the police, and local administration. His publications include Magistrates, Police, and People: Everyday Criminal Justice in Quebec and Lower Canada, 1764—1837 (University of Toronto Press, 2006), also published in French (Hurtubise, 2010); From Iron Bars to Bookshelves: A History of the Morrin Centre (with Louisa Blair and Patrick Donovan, Baraka Books, 2016), also published in French (Septentrion, 2016); Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume XI: Quebec and the Canadas (ed., with Blaine Baker, Osgoode Society/University of Toronto Press, 2013); and La gouvernance montréalaise: de la ville-frontière à la métropole (ed., with Léon Robichaud and Harold Bérubé, Multimondes, 2014). His current research projects include capital punishment and imprisonment in Quebec 1760—1960; families and the law in Quebec, 1840—1920; penal justice in Quebec City, 1760—1965; interpersonal violence in Quebec, 1760—1960; and the legal and social effects of the British Conquest of Quebec. He is also interested in digital history, the popularization of history, and the effects of access and privacy legislation on historical research. He is a member of the Centre interuniversitaire d'études québécoises (www.cieq.ca), which he co-directed from 2008 to 2013; a member of the Centre d'histoire des régulations sociales (www.chrs.uqam.ca); a member of the executive and Honorary Librarian of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec (www.morrin.org); and a member of the editorial board of Social Science History.
