As part of a growing scholarly conversation on the Atlantic Region, its peoples, and how history can inform our contemporary social, political, and cultural sensibilities, the Atlantic Canada Studies Centre at the University of New Brunswick has dedicated this website to demonstrate the utility of digital scholarship in opening new and meaningful dialogue. This site provides links to wonderful new projects underway by members of our research community. Our goal is the provide accessibility, so that their research and work receives the attention that it deserves.
Our Goal
- This platform promotes the use use of legislation that has be digitally archived, transcribed, and made key-word searchable by the ‘British North America Legislative Database‘ to investigate historical (and by extension, contemporary) problems we did not know needed to be researched.
- This is part of a specific project that demonstrates how the legislative record can be used, while opening broader questions of regional, national, and international significance. In particular, the regulation of the commons in comparative perspectives.
- We support the application of digital technology for the enhancement of scholarship on the Atlantic Region. Atlanticdigitalscholarship.ca was designed to be both a teaching and research tool. By centralizing and making accessible various archives, libraries, online databases, and digital projects, we wish to provide a platform and bridge to some of the excellent work being done in Atlantic Canadian Studies.