Contents

pp v-vi

Notes on the Contributors

pp vii-viii

Map of the Caribbean

pp ix-ix

Map of the USA

pp x-x

Map of Atlantic Canada

pp xi-xii

INTRODUCTION

pp 1-2

1 - Colonial Legacies

pp 3-10

2 - British Colonisation in an Atlantic Canadian Context

pp 11-22

Part One - Dispossession and Settlement

pp 23-24

3 - Barren Icy Rocks or a Nursery of Seamen? Debating Nova Scotia and Ideologies of Empire in the Era of the American Revolution

pp 25-40

4 - Leaving Nova Scotia: Sierra Leone and the Free Black People, 1792–1800

pp 41-58

5 - New World, Old Problems? Aristocratic Influences on Colonial Governance and Land in Nineteenth-century Atlantic Canada

pp 59-74

Part Two - Religion and Identity

pp 75-76

6 - Catholic Highland Scots and the Colonisation of Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Island, 1772–1830

pp 77-92

7 - The Church of England, Print Networks and the Book of Common Prayer in the North-Eastern Atlantic Colonies, c.1750–c.1830

pp 93-112

8 - ‘For Christ and Covenant’: Scottish Presbyterian Dissent and Early Political Reform in Nova Scotia, 1803–1832

pp 113-130

Part Three - Reappraising Memory

pp 131-132

9 - Fenian Ghosts: The Spectre of Irish Republicanism in Ethnic Relations in Newfoundland

pp 133-153

10 - Cosmopolitan Engagements: Class, Place and Diplomacy in the Gulf of St Lawrence Fisheries, 1815–1854

pp 154-170

11 - The Mi’kmaq, the Pattersons and Remembering the Scottish Colonisation of Nova Scotia

pp 171-189

Index

pp 190-194