Margaret Rose Conrad

Background

Margaret Conrad was born on September 14, 1946, in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.

Education

Margaret Conrad graduated from Acadia University, where she got a Bachelor of Arts in 1967. Also, she studied at the University of Toronto. She got there a Master of Arts in 1968 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1975.

Career

Margaret Conrad was an editor at the Clarke, Irwin & Company Publishing in 1968-1969. Then she taught at Acadia University for many years, where she helped to found Atlantis, a women's studies journal, as well as the Planter Studies Centre, which explored the history of eighteenth-century migrations to the Maritimes.

Also, Margaret Conrad worked as a visiting lecturer at the University of Victoria in 1979. From 1981 to 1982, she was a visiting scholar at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Since the beginning of 1991, Margaret Conrad serves as an adjunct professor at Dalhousie University. In 1996 she became a Nancy Rowell Jackman Chair of Women's Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University.

In 2002, Margaret was a Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies at the University of New Brunswick. In that capacity, she probed the potential of Humanities Computing through the highly innovative Atlantic Canada Portal.

Margaret Conrad lectured at several educational institutions, including the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Saint Mary's University, University of Tsukuba, Seisen University, Meiji University, University of Western Sydney, University of Maine, University of Vermont, and the University of Edinburgh. Besides, she was a jury member for history and creative or scholarly writing competitions, a producer of video programs on contemporary Canada, and the Atlantic region of Canada, and a workshop coordinator and presenter. Margaret also was a guest on media programs, including Maritimes Today.

In addition to teaching, Margaret Conrad was a member of the advisory board from Atlantic Canada at the National Archives of Canada in 1989-1992. Also, she serves as a member, from Nova Scotia, of Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada in 1990-1998. Besides, Margaret worked as a chair of the Built Environment Committee in 1995-1998.

As a writer, Margaret Conrad has written Atlantic Canada: A Region in the Making, with James Hiller. Her essay, Sundays Always Make Me Think of Home: Time and Place in Canadian Women's History, has made an enduring impact on the way historians conceptualize women and the work they do in production, reproduction, and caring for the young, the ill, and the elderly.

Margaret Conrad served as a contributor of articles and reviews to professional journals and newspapers, including Acadiensis, Canadian Women's Studies, Resources for Feminist Research, Dalhousie Review, Second Mile, and Journal of Canadian Studies. From 1997 to 2000, Margaret was a co-editor of Canadian Historical Review. She worked as an editor at Planter Notes in 1989 for three years, and since 1998 she became a co-editor.

Achievements

• Margaret Conrad is widely known as an educator and writer. She became a fellow of Woodrow Wilson in 1967-1968 and Canada Council in 1972-1973. Also, Margaret was a fellow of the Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire.
  
  In 1997 Margaret Conrad became a Planter scholar. In 1998 she got a grant from Health Canada and grants from various other agencies, including Social Sciences and Humanities Research of Canada.

Works

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  • Atlantic Canada

    (Atlantic Canada tells the story of the region from its ge...)

    2001
  • Intimate relations

    (A fascinating look at 18th-century family and community l...)

    1995
  • Planter Links

    (They came into early Nova Scotia from many backgrounds, c...)

    2001
  • History of the Canadian Peoples

    (History of the Canadian Peoples has been one of the most ...)

    1993
  • Making Adjustments

    (Insights into the geopolitical forces transforming the At...)

    1991
  • They planted well

    (They Planted Well is a collection of the papers presented...)

    1988
  • Canada: A History

    (Canada: A History offers a flowing story with its infusio...)

    2002
  • Saturday's Child

    (Ellen Fairclough is perhaps best known as the first woman...)

    1995
  • 20th Century Canada 1974
  • George Nowlan: Maritime Conservative in National Politics 1986
  • No Place Like Home 1988

Views

Quotations: "Old historians never give up doing research. They find new projects to inspire their energies."

Membership

• Margaret Conrad is a member of the editorial board of Canadian History in Multimedia.

  Canadian History in Multimedia , Canada

  1997 - present

• Margaret Conrad is a member of the advisory board of H-Canada.

  H-Canada , Canada

  1994 - present

• Margaret Conrad is a member of the advisory board of Canadian History Electronic Resource Centre.

  Canadian History Electronic Resource Centre , Canada

  2000 - present

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  Margaret Conrad is a council member of Historica Canada.

  Historica Canada , Canada

  2000 - present

• Margaret Conrad was a member of the minister's round table at Parks Canada secretariat.

  Parks Canada secretariat , Canada

  2001

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  Margaret Conrad was a member of the executive committee at the Royal Society of Canada.

  Royal Society of Canada , Canada

  1996 - 1999

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  PEN Canada , Canada

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  Margaret Conrad was an Atlantic region representative on the executive committee at the Association for Canadian Studies.

  Association for Canadian Studies , Canada

  1981 - 1983

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  Margaret Conrad was a council member of Canadian Historical Association.

  Canadian Historical Association , Canada

  1977 - 1980

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  Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women , Canada

• Canadian Women's Studies Association , Canada

• Canadian Committee on Women's History , Canada

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  Margaret Conrad was a member of the executive committee of Canadian Association of Learned Journals.

  Canadian Association of Learned Journals , Canada

  1999 - 2000

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  Atlantic Association of Historians , Canada

• Historical Papers of the Canadian Historical Association , Canada

  1988 - 1991

Connections

colleague:

James K. Hiller