John g reid biography

John Reid Profile

Professor Emeritus
B.A. (Oxford), MA (Memorial), Ph.D. (U.N.B.)
john.reid@smu.ca

Phone: 902-420-5760
Gorsebrook Research Institute
5960 Inglis Street, Room 210,

John G. Reid holds degrees from Oxford University (BA), Memorial University (MA), and the University of New Brunswick (PhD). He has been a member of the History department at Saint Mary's University since 1985, and has held the rank of Professor since 1989. He is also a former Coordinator of Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary’s, and is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Gorsebrook Research Institute. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, elected in 2004. Reid’s principal teaching and research interests include the history of early modern northeastern North America (focusing especially on imperial-Indigenous relations), the history of Atlantic Canada, the history of higher education, and the history of sport. He has published books and articles in these areas, as well

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Books by John G. Reid

The Atlantic Region to Confederation: A History
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4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions

The New England Knight: Sir William Phips, 1651 - 1695
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions

Britain's Oceanic Empire: Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, c.1550–1850
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions

New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions

Six Crucial Decades: Times of Change in the History of the Maritimes
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3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1987

Revisiting 1759: The Conquest of Canada in Historical Perspective
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions

Acadia, Maine, and New Scotland: Marginal Colonies in the Seventeenth Cent

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John G. Reid

Canadian historian

John G. Reid is a Canadian historian. The principal focus of his work is on the history of early modern northeastern North amerika (focusing especially on imperial-aboriginal issues in Acadia/Nova Scotia and nordlig New England), the history of Atlantic Canada, and the history of higher education. According to historian Geoffrey Plank, "No active historian studying the 17th and 18th century Maritime region has produced a richer or more varied body of scholarship than John G. Reid."^[1] He was also an expert witness in a number of court cases, including the Mi’kmaw and Wulstukwiuk treaty rights case R. v. Donald Marshall Junior (See R v. Simon).

Career

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John Reid was born in Scotland and grew up in the north of England. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1976 at the University of New Brunswick and began to teach at Saint Mary's University in 1985, becoming a full professor in 1989. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, elect