The Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies has invited Dr. Gregory M.W. Kennedy to deliver his presentation, Lost in the Crowd: Acadian Soldiers of Canada’s First World War, on Thursday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m. Atlantic time.
This will be a free hybrid presentation. Those interested may watch online by clicking on the Zoom link in the program description or attend in person in Atrium 101 in the Stephanie MacDonald Lecture Theatre at St. Mary’s University in Halifax.
The presentation will focus on Dr. Kennedy’s new award-winning book about Acadian participation in the First World War, Lost in the Crowd: Acadian Soldiers of Canada’s First World War.
Dr. Kennedy is Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Brandon University. A historian of early Canada and particularly of New France and the French Atlantic World, he has published two monographs and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. His first book, Something of a Peasant Paradise? Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604-1755 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014), was awarded the Canadian Historical Association’s Clio prize for the best scholarly book on Atlantic Canadian history and is also available in French with Septentrion (2021).
His second book, Lost in the Crowd: Acadian Soldiers of Canada’s First World War (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024), was recently named winner of the New Brunswick Scholarly Book Award by the Journal of New Brunswick Studies/Revue d’études sur le Nouveau-Brunswick.
