John G. Reid is a member of the Department of History at Saint Mary’s University, and Senior Research Fellow of the Gorsebrook Research Institute. He holds degrees from Oxford University, Memorial University, and the University of New Brunswick. His teaching focuses on North American history during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the history of Atlantic Canada. He has also lectured internationally, and in 2008 held the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Visiting Lectureship in India. Reid’s research areas include early modern northeastern North America and the history of higher education, and his most recent scholarly books are The ‘Conquest’ of Acadia, 1710: Imperial, Colonial, and Aboriginal Constructions (with five co-authors, 2004), New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons (co-edited with Stephen J. Hornsby, 2005), Viola Florence Barnes, 1885-1979: A Historian’s Biography (2005), and Essays on Northeastern North America, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2008). He has also published journal articles in these areas, two historical novels for teenage readers, and a history of Nova Scotia written for a general audience. Reid has served on the Council of the Canadian Historical Association and on the editorial boards of a number of scholarly journals including Canadian Historical Review, and he is currently co-editor of Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region. In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 2009 he received the Clio Prize of the Canadian Historical Association. His current research focuses on Native-Imperial relations in eastern British North America during the Loyalist era.