Our Featured Themes

29 March 2024  
 

Contested Territory: Transformation of the Woods

New Brunswickers have regularly responded to significant economic and technological change in the resource industries that have long formed the backbone of the New Brunswick economy. A major case study will focus on the working experience in the forest industries over the course of the 20th century.

Our features on this theme include the following:

  • Women's Work in the New Brunswick Lumber Camps: Women have always worked, and when thinking about the history of work in the New Brunswick woods, it is important to remember that women also played a part in the history of work in these operations. [ more ]
  • Life and Work in Stanley Parish at the time of the Great War: This feature takes us into the world of rural work, as seen in the diaries of a York County farmer and labourer in the 1910s and 1920s, a time of major changes in the New Brunswick countryside. Bill Parenteau and Stephen Dutcher have published a new book, War on the Home Front: The Farm Diaries of Daniel MacMillan, 1914-1927 (Goose Lane Editions, 2006), and our site features a short introduction as well as excerpts and illustrations from the book. [ more ]