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Irish Catholic Halifax


Professor
B.A. (Simon Fraser) 
M.A. (York, UK), M.A. (McMaster)
Ph.D. (Guelph)

michael.vance@smu.ca

Dr Vance has taught at Saint Mary's since 1990. With an undergraduate and Master of Arts background in History and Archaeology, Dr Vance's doctoral research specialized in Migration History. His current research focuses on Scottish migration patterns to Canada, Australia and South Africa in the 19th century. Dr Vance helped develop the Graduate Program in History and also teaches for the Irish Studies program at Saint Mary's.

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Selected Publications

Books

Imperial Immigrants: Scottish Settlers in the Upper Ottawa Valley, 1815-1840 (, 2012). Additional Documents

William Wye Smith: Recollections of a Nineteenth Century Scottish Canadian (Toronto: , 2008), edited and abridged with Dr. Scott McLean. [more]

Myth, Migration and the Making of Memory: Scotia and Nova Scotia c.1600 - 1990 (Halifax, , 1999), a multi-author collection of essays on transatlantic history edited with Marjory Harper, University of Aberdeen. Journal Special Issues  

• Co-edited with Mark G. McGowan, Irish Catholic Halifax from the Napoleonic Wars to the Great War, CCHA Historical Studies 81, Occassional Paper (2015)   - a collection of papers representing research undertaken through the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant 鈥淚rish-Catholic Discourse and  Social Mobility in Nineteenth Century Halifax.鈥� 
  
  
• Co-edited with S. Karly Kehoe, 鈥淚reland and Empire,鈥� Britain and the World, VI, II (September 2013) - a collection of papers drawn from the conference "Ireland and Empire: Seafaring, Slavery and Salvation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World" (held June 7-9, 2012 at Saint Mary鈥檚 University)

Articles and Book Chapters

鈥淪cots in early twentieth-century British Columbia: Class, Race and Gender鈥� in Scotland, Empire and Decolonisation in the Twentieth Century, edited by Bryan Glass and  John M. MacKenzie, [Studies in Imperialism Series] ()

"Burns in the Park: A Tale of Three Monuments" in Robert Burns in Transatlantic Context, Leith Davis, et. al., eds., (Farnham, England: , 2012): 209-232.

鈥淔rom Cape Breton to Vancouver Island: Studying the Scots in Canada,鈥�Immigrants & Minorities, vol. 29, no.2 (July 2011), pp.175-194.

鈥溾�楳on he鈥檚 a Gran Fish鈥�: Scots in BC鈥檚 Inter-War Fishing Industry,鈥� in , No. 158, Summer 2008, pp. 33-61.

鈥淎 Brief History of Organized Scottishness in Canada鈥� in C. Ray, ed. Transatlantic Scots, pp.96-119.

鈥淧owerful Pathos: The Triumph of Scottishness in Nova Scotia,鈥� in C. Ray, ed. Transatlantic Scots, pp.156-179 (Tuscaloosa: , 2005).

"Grits, Rebels and Radicals: Anti-Privilege Politics and the Pre-History of 1849 in Canada West," with Mark D. Stephen [Saint Mary's M.A.] in Derek Pollard and Ged Martin, eds., Canada 1849 (University of Edinburgh, Centre for Canadian Studies, 2001).

"Advancement, moral worth and freedom: the meaning of Independence for early nineteeth-century lowland emigrants to Upper Canada", in Ned Landsman, ed., Nation and Province in the First British Empire (Lewisburg, , 2001).

"Scottish chartism in Canada West?: an examination of the 'Clear Grit' Reformers" Scottish Tradition 22 (1997), pp. 56-102. 

"British Columbia's twentieth-century Crofter emigration schemes: A note on new sources" Scottish Tradition 18 (1993), pp.1-27. 

"The politics of emigration: Scotland and assisted emigration, 1815 -1826", in T.M. Devine, ed., Scottish Emigration and Scottish Society:Proceedings of the University of Strathclyde Scottish Historical Studies Seminar 1990-91 (Edinburgh, John Donald, 1992), pp. 37-60.

"'Breaking the power of a metaphor' - towards a social interpretation of Emigration History", in C. Kerrigan, ed., The Immigrant Experience: Proceedings of a Conference held at the University of Guelph, June 1989 (University of Guelph, 1992) pp.57-74.