Publications
Protect, Befriend, Respect: Nova Scotia’s Mental Health Movement, 1908-2008 by Judith Fingard & John Rutherford
Mothers of the Municipality: Women, Work, and Social Policy in Post-1945 Halifax edited by Judith Fingard & Janet Guildford
The Dark Side Life in Victorian Halifax by Judith Fingard
Jack in Port: Sailortowns of Eastern Canada by Judith Fingard
The Anglican Design in Loyalist Nova Scotia, 1783-1816 by Judith Fingard
Detailed Publications List
Books
- 2008. (with John Rutherford) Protect, Befriend, Respect: Nova Scotia’s Mental Health Movement, 1908-2008, Halifax & Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 157pp
- 2005. (with Janet Guildford) Mothers of the Municipality: Women, Work, and Social Policy in Post-1945 Halifax, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 318pp.
- 1989. The Dark Side Life in Victorian Halifax, Halifax: Pottersfield Press. Reprinted 1991, 224pp
- 1982. Jack in Port: Sailortowns of Eastern Canada, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Reprinted 1988, 292pp
- 1972. The Anglican Design in Loyalist Nova Scotia, 1783-1816, London: S.P.C.K., 244pp
Other Publications (by topic)
Mental health and mental illness in Nova Scotia: policies, services, personnel
- 2011. (with John Rutherford) ‘Deinstitutionalization and Vocational Rehabilitation for Mental Health Consumers in Nova Scotia since the 1950s’, Histoire sociale/Social History, 44 (no.88), pp.385-408
- 2008. (with John Rutherford) Protect, Befriend, Respect: Nova Scotia’s Mental Health Movement, 1908-2008, Halifax & Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 157pp
- 2006. (with John Rutherford) ‘Social Disintegration, Problem Pregnancies, Civilian Disasters: Psychiatric Research in Nova Scotia in the 1950s’, in Mental Health and Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives, James Moran and David Wright (eds.), Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp.193-220
- 2005. (with John Rutherford) ‘The Politics of Mental Health Care in Nova Scotia: The Case of the Halifax County Hospital’, Acadiensis, 35:1, pp.24-49
Lives of People of African Descent
- 2011. ‘Loss of Social Cohesion in early 20th Century Africville’, Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 14, pp.156-69
- 2005. (with Wanda Thomas Bernard), ‘Black Women at Work: Race, Family and Community in Greater Halifax’ in Mothers of the Municipality: Women, Work, and Social Policy in Post-1945 Halifax, Judith Fingard and Janet Guildford (eds.), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 189-225.
- 2002. ‘A Tale of Two Preachers: Henry Hartley, Francis Robinson and the Black Churches of the Maritimes’, Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 5, pp.23-43
- 1999. ‘Rescue and Reward: Corporal George Liston's Heroism on the Halifax Waterfront’, Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 2, pp.145-54
- 1995. ‘From Sea to Rail: Black Transportation Workers and Their Families in Halifax, c.1870-1916’, Acadiensis, 24: 2, pp.49-64
- 1993. ‘Race and Respectability in Victorian Halifax’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 20:2, pp.169-95; reprinted as ‘Race in Victorian Canada’ in Interpreting Canada's Past, vol.2, 2nd.ed, J.M. Bumsted (ed.), Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp.107-34
Women and social policy
- 2010. ‘The Ritchie Sisters and Social Improvement in Early 20th Century Halifax’, Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 13, pp.1-22
- 2005. ‘From Eliza Frame to Phyllis Blakeley: Women and the Nova Scotia Historical Society’, Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 8, pp.1-16
- 2005. ‘Women’s Organizations: the Heart and Soul of Women’s Activism’ in Mothers of the Municipality: Women, Work, and Social Policy in Post-1945 Halifax, Judith Fingard and Janet Guildford (eds.), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp.25-4
- 2002. ‘Canadian Women and the Peace Movement’, in Canadian and American Women: Moving from Private to Public Experiences in the Atlantic World, Valeria Gennaro Lerda and Roberto Maccarini (eds.), Milano: Selene Edizioni, pp.311-24
- 1991. ‘University Women of the Great War Generation’, Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society Collections, 43, pp.1-19.
- 1989. ‘College, Career and Community: Dalhousie Coeds, 188l-l921’, in Youth, University and Canadian Society: Essays in the Social History of Higher Education, P. Axelrod and J. Reid (eds.), Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, pp.26-50.
- 1984-85. ‘Gender and Inequality at Dalhousie: Faculty Women before l950’ Dalhousie Review, 64: 4, pp.687-703.
The Historical Craft
- 2000. ‘Focusing on Their Roots: University of New Brunswick Historians and Regional History’, Acadiensis, 30: 1, pp. 38-44
- 2000. ‘Atlantic Canada and the Marginalization of the Sea or the Sea and the Marginalization of Atlantic Canada’, in Canada, Italy and the Sea: Legal Perspectives and Multidisciplinary Contributions, Guido Camarda (ed.), Palermo: Quattrosoli, pp.29-39
- 1998. ‘The Personal and the Historical’, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, New Series, 9, pp.3-13
- 1994. ‘The 1820s: Peace, Privilege and the Promise of Progress’, in The Atlantic Region to Confederation: A History, P.A. Buckner and J.A. Reid (eds.), Toronto and Fredericton: University of Toronto Press and Acadiensis Press, pp.263-83
- 1993. ‘The l880s: The Paradoxes of Progress’, in The Atlantic Provinces in Confederation, E.R. Forbes and D.A. Muise (eds.), Toronto and Fredericton: University of Toronto Press and Acadiensis Press, pp.82-116
- 1989. ‘Ideas on the Periphery or Peripheral Ideas?: The Intellectual and Cultural History of Atlantic Canada’, Journal of Canadian Studies, 24: 3, pp.32-43 4
Marginalized classes in 19th century urban society and their rescuers
- 2000. ‘The North End City Mission: Building Use in the Old North End’, Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 3, pp.1-21
- 1996. ‘Masculinity, Fraternity and Respectability in Halifax at the Turn of the 20th Century’, Gender and History in Canada, J. Parr and M. Rosenfeld (eds.), Toronto: Copp Clark, pp. 211-24
- 1993. ‘The Prevention of Cruelty, Marriage Breakdown, and the Rights of Wives in Nova Scotia, 1880-1900’, Acadiensis, 22: 2, pp.84-101; reprinted in Separate Spheres: Women's Worlds in the 19th-Century Maritimes, J. Guildford and S. Morton (eds.), Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1994, pp. 211-31
- 1989. The Dark Side Life in Victorian Halifax, Halifax: Pottersfield Press. Reprinted 1991, 224pp
- 1989. ‘Evangelical Social Work in Canada: Salvationists and Sailors' Friends, 1890-1920’, in Social Welfare, 1850-1950: Australia, Argentina and Canada Compared, D.C.M. Platt (ed.), London: Macmillan, pp.25-44
- 1988. ‘A Great Big Rum Shop: The Drink Trade in Victorian Halifax’, in“Tempered by Rum”: Rum in the History of the Maritime Provinces, James Morrison (ed.), Halifax: Pottersfield Press, Halifax, pp.89-101
- 1984. ‘Jailbirds in Mid-Victorian Halifax’, Dalhousie Law Journal, 8:3, pp.81-102; reprinted in Lawful Authority: Readings on the History of Criminal Justice in Canada, R.C. Macleod (ed.), Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman Ltd., 1988, pp.64-81
- 1982. Jack in Port: Sailortowns of Eastern Canada, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Reprinted 1988, 292pp
- 1980. ‘“Those Crimps of Hell and Goblins Damned”: The Image and Reality of Quebec's Sailortown Bosses’, in Working Men Who Got Wet, R.Ommer and G. Panting (eds.), St. John’s: Memorial University Press, pp.323-33
- 1978. ‘Masters and Friends, Crimps and Abstainers: Agents of Control in 19th Century Sailortown’, Acadiensis, 8: l, pp.22-46; reprinted in The Acadiensis Reader, vol.l, P.A. Buckner and D. Frank (eds.), Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, l985, pp.284-308
- 1977. ‘The Decline of the Sailor as a Ship Labourer in 19th Century Timber Ports’, Labour/Le Travailleur, 2 , pp. 35-53
- 1975. ‘The Relief of the Unemployed Poor in Saint John, Halifax, and St. John's, 1815-1860’, Acadiensis, 5:1, pp.32-53; reprinted in (l) The Canadian City: Essays in Urban History, G.A. Stelter and A. Artibise (eds.), Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp.341-67, (2) Canadian History before Confederation: Essays and Interpretations, J.M. Bumsted (ed.), 2nd. ed., Georgetown, ON: Irwin-Dorsey, 1979, pp. 447-66, (3) The Acadiensis Reader, vol.1, P.A. Buckner and D. Frank (eds.), Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1985, pp.190-211, and elsewhere
- 1974. The Winter's Tale: The Seasonal Contours of Pre-industrial Poverty in British North America, 1815-1860’, Canadian Historical Association, Historical Papers, pp.65-94; reprinted in Interpreting Canada's Past, vol.l, J.M. Bumsted (ed.), Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1986, pp.248-72, Canadian Working Class History: Selected Readings, L.S. MacDowell and I. Radforth (eds.), Toronto: Scholars' Press, 1992, pp.81-105, (2nd. ed.) 1999, and elsewhere, and in an edited version as ‘The Poor in Winter: Seasonality and Society in Pre-industrial Canada’, in Pre-industrial Canada, 1760-1840, M.S. Cross and G.S. Kealey (eds.), Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1982, pp.62-78
Colonial Church of England: organization, personnel, philanthropy
- 1973. ‘English Humanitarianism and the Colonial Mind: Walter Bromley in Nova Scotia, 1813-1825’, Canadian Historical Review, 54:2, pp.123-51
- 1972. The Anglican Design in Loyalist Nova Scotia, 1783-1816, London: S.P.C.K., 244pp
- 1972. ‘“Grapes in the Wilderness”: The Bible Society in British North America in the Early Nineteenth Century’, Histoire sociale/Social History, 5:9, pp.5-31
- 1972. ‘The New England Company and the New Brunswick Indians, 1786-1826: A Comment on the Colonial Perversion of British Benevolence’, Acadiensis, l: 2, pp.29-42
- 1968. ‘Charles Inglis and his “Primitive Bishoprick” in Nova Scotia’, Canadian Historical Review, 49: 3, pp.247-66
- 1967-68. ‘The Establishment of the First English Colonial Episcopate’, Dalhousie Review, 47, pp. 475-91
- 1966. ‘Administrative Relationships in the Church of England in Nova Scotia, 1787-1816’, Nova Scotia Historical Society Collections, 35, pp.53-78
Popular history
- 1999. (with Elizabeth Townsend, Laura B. Morgan, Graham Morgan) A Sentinel on the Street: St. Matthew's United Church, Halifax, 1749-1999, Halifax: Nimbus, 193pp
- 1999. (with Janet Guildford and David Sutherland) Halifax: The First 250 Years, Halifax: Formac, 192pp
- 1985. ‘They Had a Tough Row to Hoe’, Dalhousie Alumni Magazine, Winter, pp.27-30
- 976-77. ‘How the “Foreign Protestants” came to Nova Scotia, 1749-1752’, Canadian Geographical Journal, 93: 3, pp.54-59
Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
- Oliver Arnold, 1987
- Walter Bromley, 1988
- Jane Bruce, 1994
- Elizabeth Maud Bessie (Bates) Egan, 2015
- Alexander Forrester, 1976
- Charles Inglis, 1983
- John Inglis, 1988
- John Kellum, 1994
- Louisa A. Johnson, 1998
- James R. Johnston, 1998
- James A.R. Kinney, 2016
- Peter McKerrow, 1994
- Jean-Baptist Moreau, 1974
- Robert Motton, 1990
- George Munro, 1990
- Ella Maud Murray, forthcoming
- George Henry Murray, 2005
- John Naylor, 1994
- Joseph Peters, 1979
- Silas T. Rand, 1982
- Eliza Ritchie, 2013
- Isaac Sallis, 1994
- Robert Stanser, 1987
- Major Theakston, 1998
- John T. Twining, 1985
- R.F. Uniacke, 1976
- James Ward, 1990
- Richard Wenman, 1979
- John Wentworth, 1983
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