RONALD ROMPKEY is University Research Professor in the Department of English at Memorial University, where his interests include biography and autobiography, travel literature and cultural identity. From 1995 to 2001, he was director of the J.R. Smallwood Foundation for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies. As a result of his attention to life in northern Newfoundland and Labrador, he has published a biography of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, Grenfell of Labrador (1991) and edited three travel narratives associated with the North : Labrador Odyssey (1996), Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission (2001), and The Labrador Memoir of Dr. Harry Paddon (2003). He is currently editing an anthology of French writing on Newfoundland from the nineteenth century.

OLAF JANZEN (PhD, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada) is Professor of History at the Sir Wilfred Grenfell College campus, Corner Brook of Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research interests include the trade, society and defence of eighteenth-century Newfoundland. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, edits Northern Seas, the yearbook of the Association for the History of the Northern Seas, and is Reviews Editor of the International Journal of Maritime History. He is the author of "Newfoundland and the International Fishery," chapter 7 (pp. 280-324) of Canadian History: A Reader's Guide. Vol. I: Beginnings to Confederation (University of Toronto Press, 1994), edited by M. Brook Taylor.

JAMES HILLER (PhD - Cambridge) 1971; head of History MUN 1982 - 88, author of The Newfoundland Railway 1881-1949(1981), editor of Newfoundland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1980) with Peter F. Neary. Hiller joined the history department at MUN in the 1960's. He has written widely on the history of Newfoundland and Labrador and has served in an executive capacity on several academic and historical organizations, including the Newfoundland Historical Society, the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Association of University Teachers. With Michael F. Harrington, Hiller has edited for publication the debates of the National Convention.