James D. Cameron, Chair                    

Department of History

St. Francis Xavier University

 

Hi and welcome. See below for current and brief biographical
information.

 

 

 

Appointment:

Associate Professor
Department of History
St. Francis Xavier University

Courses 2010-2011

 

HIST 204: Western Canada: British Columbia (1^st term—3 credits)

HIST 215: Canada: Post-Confederation (2^nd term—3 credits)

HIST 297: Canadian Business and Financial History from 1885 (2^nd term—3 credits)

 

To Contact:

 

Phone: 902-867-3921

Email:   jdcamero@stfx.ca

Campus mail:  Box 81

Office:  Nicholson Hall 510 (5^th floor)

Education:

BA 1981 (Philosophy) University of  Prince Edward Island
B.Ed. 1981  University of Prince Edward Island
MA (Theology)  1985  Acadia University
PHD (History)  1990 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

Research Interests:

·      Canadian Ethnic/Immigration History

·      Canadian Higher Education

·        Canadian Business Enterprise and Society

Current Projects:

·         The history of illegal entry on Canada’s Pacific Coast

·         Post-WW II Illegal Entry Amnesties

Publications:

a) Books:

• "And Martha Served": A History of the Sisters of St. Martha, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Halifax: Nimbus, 2000. 368 pp.

• For the People:  A History of St Francis Xavier University.  Montreal and Kingston:  McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. 551 pp.

b)      Articles--refereed:

 

·        "International Student Integration into the Canadian University: A Post-World War Two Historical Case Study.” History of Intellectual Culture 6/1 (2006): 1-18.         

 

·        "Canada's Struggle with Illegal Entry on its West Coast: The Case of Fred Yoshy and Japanese Migrants Before World War II." BC Studies 146 (Summer 2005): 37-62.

 

·        "The University Contribution to Canadian Multiculturalism: A Case Study of St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada." Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 8 (2005): 116-128.

 

·        "Student Life Transformed: A Post-World War Two Institutional Case Study of St. Francis Xavier University." Canadian Journal of Higher Education XXXIII/1 (2003): 1-24.

 

·        "Ethnicizing Atlantic Canadian Universities: The Regional Impact of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Program, 1973-1997." Canadian Ethnic Studies 34/2 (2002): 1-24.

 

·        "Canada: A Nation of Immigrants." Annual of the University of Oradea XI (2001): 354-364.

 

·        "From Intimacy to Detachment: The History of Relations Between St. Francis Xavier University and the Diocese of Antigonish to 1970." Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 4 (2001): 70-83.

 

·        "Prince Edward Island Methodist Prelude to Church Union, 1925," in The Contribution of Methodism to Atlantic Canada. Eds. Charles H.H. Scobie and John Webster Grant. Kingston and Montreal:  McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992.

 

·        "The Garden Distressed:  Church Union and Dissent on Prince Edward Island, 1925" Acadiensis XXI, 2 (Spring 1992), pp. 108-131.

 

·        "The Garden Distressed:  Church Union and Dissent on Prince Edward Island," The Island Magazine 30 (Fall/Winter 1991) and 31 (Spring/Summer 1992).

 

·        "'Erasing forever the brand of social inferiority':  Saint Francis Xavier University and the Highland Catholics of Eastern Nova Scotia." Canadian Catholic Historical Association, Historical Studies (1992): 49-64.

c)      Articles--popular:

"Establishing the Foundation: Priests and Sisters in St.F.X.'s Past." In Alumni News:  St. Francis Xavier University (Special 150^th Anniversary Edition 2003): 4-7.

"Celtic Studies in the History of St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia." Celtic Heritage, (April/May 1996):  20-1 and 42.

"Church and University:  An Enduring Partnership," Alumni News:  St. Francis Xavier University (Winter 1995):  11-12.

"St.F.X.'s Kennedy Connection," The Xaverian 8 February 1995, 6.

"Impact of World War Two Veterans on Life at St.F.X." Alumni News:  St. Francis Xavier University (Fall 1995): 8-12.

"An American Imprint on St.F.X.," Alumni News:  St. Francis Xavier University (Winter/spring 1994): 13-14.

"December 3--A Day For Saintly Reflections," Xaverian Weekly, 1 December 1993.

"The Shock of Apostasy:  St.F.X. and its First Rector." Alumni News:  St. Francis Xavier University (Fall 1992):   3-7.

Last updated: July 7, 2010

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