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The Atlantic Canada Studies Centre at the University of New Brunswick is located in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Situated on the traditional lands of the Wolastoqiyik, the people of the beautiful and bountiful river (Wolostoq/St. John River). The UNB ACSC respectfully acknowledges the unsurrendered and unceded traditional lands of the Wolastoqiyik, which the University of New Brunswick occupies. Wabanaki Peoples (Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Abenaki First Nations) have lived in the Atlantic region for over 10,000 years. Beginning in 1725, Wabanaki peoples entered into a series of Peace and Friendship Treaties with the British Crown that outlined the peaceful co-existence of European and Indigenous Peoples. These treaties did not deal with the transfer of any land, but instead spoke to the sharing of resources between nations, acknowledging the sovereign right of Wabanaki societies to hunt, fish, self-government and economic development.

We encourage visitors to use the resources we provide to better understand the unique relationship that the peoples who have occupied this region have had with the natural landscape. Projects such as the British North America Legislative Data Base present researches with the opportunity to key-word search legislation produced by the settler assemblies of New Brunswick, Nova Society, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and Upper and Lower Canada.