John Reid

John Reid is a member of the History department at Saint Mary’s University. His research has focused on early modern northeastern North America and the history of higher education. Reid’s most recent books include The ‘Conquest’ of Acadia, 1710: Imperial, Colonial, and Aboriginal Constructions (with five coauthors, 2004), 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 two historical novels for teenage readers and a short history of Nova Scotia.