Willis D. Hamilton

Professor Emeritus Willis D. Hamilton was one of the founders and the first director of UNB’s Mi’kmaq-Maliseet Institute (1981-1992). He is the author of Indian Lands in New Brunswick: The Case of the Little South West Reserve (Acadiensis, Spring 1984) and many other articles and books, including The Julian Tribe, Old North Esk on the Miramichi, The Dictionary of Miramichi Biography, and a number of sketches of aboriginal and non-aboriginal figures in The Dictionary of Canadian Biography. In 2008, he established the annual Miramichi Historians’ Prize in the UNB Department of History.