Shaping an Agenda for Atlantic Canada

Edited by Donald Savoie, Adje van de Sande

Atlantic Canada stands at a crossroads. Slow population growth, political marginalization, an aging population and fiscal stress are among the most urgent issues. Faced with this reality, Atlantic Canadians must find a new way forward. Shaping an Agenda for Atlantic Canada offers the perspectives of authors from a variety of disciplines reflecting on historical and contemporary themes relevant to the future. The goal is not to offer glib diagnoses or instant solutions but rather to identify considerations that would enable Atlantic Canadians to shape an agenda. Re-examining key elements of the past is an essential starting point. Equally important is a contemporary analysis of the nature of those challenges. Through these complementary approaches, this book seeks to assist Atlantic Canadians in designing a road map leading into the future.

Contents

• Introduction (John G. Reid & Donald J. Savoie)
• Settler Imperialism and the Dispossession of the Maliseet, 1758–1765 (Andrea Bear Nicholas)
• Atlantic Realities, Acadian Identities, Arcadian Dreams (Maurice Basque)
• Halifax, Hiroshima and the Romance of Disaster (George Elliott Clarke)
• The Presence of the Past: Memory and Politics in Atlantic Canada since 2000 (Jerry Bannister & Roger Marsters)
• Fail Again, Fail Better: Atlantic Canadians and Their Pasts (Margaret Conrad with David Northrup)
• Environmental Change and Legacy in Atlantic Canada (Bil Freedman)
• The New Federalism and Atlantic Canada (James Bickerton)
• Atlantic Canada: Myth or Reality? (Wade Locke)
• Continuity and Change in Immigration Policy: Canada, Atlantic Canada and the Future of Citizenship (Alexandra Dobrowolsky & Evangelia Tastsoglou)
• Cultural Corridors and Innovation: Opportunities for Atlantic Canada (Wayne A. Hunt)
• Reflections on Rural Development: An Atlantic Canada Perspective (Donald J. Savoie)

About the Authors

Donald J. Savoie is Canada Research Chair and a professor of public administration at the University of Moncton.

Adje van de Sande is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work at Carleton University.  His research interests and publications are in the areas of social work research, child and youth poverty andaboriginal child welfare. He is a Past President of the Canadian Association for Social Work Education and currently chairs the Educational Policy Committee of CASWE.