The New Brunswick Military Heritage Project
The New Brunswick Military Heritage Project, a non-profit organization devoted to public awareness of the remarkable military heritage of the province, is an initiative of the Brigadier Milton F. Gregg, VC, Centre for the Study of War and Society of the University of New Brunswick. The organization consists of museum professionals, teachers, university professors, graduate students, active and retired members of the Canadian Forces, and other historians. We welcome public involvement. People who have ideas for books or information for our database can contact us through our website: www.unb.ca/nbmhp.
One of the main activities of the New Brunswick Military Heritage Project is the publication of the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series with Goose Lane Editions. This series of books is under the direction of Marc Milner, Director of the Gregg Centre, and J. Brent Wilson, Publications Director of the Gregg Centre at the University of New Brunswick. Publication of the series is supported by a grant from the Canadian War Museum.
The New Brunswick Military Heritage Series
Volume 1
Saint John Fortifications, 1630-1956, Roger Sarty and Doug Knight
Volume 2
Hope Restored: The American Revolution and the Founding of New Brunswick, Robert L. Dallison
Volume 3
The Siege of Fort Beauséjour, 1755, Chris M. Hand
Volume 4
Riding into War: The Memoir of a Horse Transport Driver, 1916-1919, James Robert Johnston
Volume 5
The Road to Canada: The Grand Communications Route from Saint John to Quebec, W.E. (Gary) Campbell
Volume 6
Trimming Yankee Sails: Pirates and Privateers of New Brunswick, Faye Kert
Volume 7
War on the Home Front: The Farm Diaries of Daniel MacMillan, 1914-1927, ed. Bill Parenteau and Stephen Dutcher
Volume 8
Turning Back the Fenians: New Brunswick’s Last Colonial Campaign, Robert L. Dallison
Volume 9
D-Day to Carpiquet: The North Shore Regiment and the Liberation of Europe, Marc Milner
Volume 10
Hurricane Pilot: The Wartime Letters of Harry L. Gill, DFM, 1940-1943, ed. Brent Wilson with Barbara J. Gill
Volume 11
The Bitter Harvest of War: New Brunswick and the Conscription Crisis of 1917, Andrew Theobald
Volume 12
Captured Hearts: New Brunswick’s War Brides, Melynda Jarratt
Volume 13
Bamboo Cage: The P.O.W. Diary of Flight Lieutenant Robert Wyse, 1942-1943, ed. Jonathan F. Vance
Volume 14
Uncle Cy’s War: The First World War Letters of Major Cyrus F. Inches, ed. Valerie Teed
A native of Keswick Ridge, New Brunswick, Shawna M. Quinn holds a BSc in Biology-Psychology (1999) and an MA in History (2006) from the University of New Brunswick. After earning the David Alexander Prize in 2004 for her undergraduate essay on a nineteenth-century school inspector, she began her graduate research examining the private and public priorities of inspectors for her thesis, “‘Sympathetic and Practical Men’? School Inspectors and New Brunswick’s Educational Bureaucracy, 1879-1909” (2006). In a concurrent project, she surveyed the contributions of several women to the growth of New Brunswick’s provincial museum, featuring their efforts online in a virtual exhibit entitled “Progress and Permanence: Women and the New Brunswick Museum, 1880-1980.” One of these women was Nursing Sister Agnes Warner.
Shawna’s interest in history extends also to historical interpretation and preservation. She spent several seasons developing and leading educational programs at Kings Landing Historical Settlement and is involved in the support and management of community museums through Queens County Heritage and the Keswick Ridge Historical Society. She currently lives in Upper Gagetown and works as an instructional designer.