Editorial Team

General Editor (Articles, Research Notes, and Commentaries): Michael Moir

Michael Moir managed corporate, municipal, and academic archival programs during a career that spanned forty years. In 1984, he was appointed archivist for the Toronto Harbour Commissioners, where he developed a deep interest in maritime history. After serving six years as Director of Corporate Records Services and City Archivist for City of Toronto, he was hired as University Archivist and Head of the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections at York University Libraries in 2004. He soon joined the project investigating Changing Urban Waterfronts that produced the book, Reshaping Toronto’s Waterfront (University of Toronto Press, 2011), with chapters by Moir on harbour commissions and the large-scale manipulation of nature, and Toronto’s shipbuilding industry in the context of port planning. His research has since focused on Canadian shipbuilding during the First World War, leading to several conference presentations and articles. Moir is a two-time winner of the Association for Great Lakes Maritime History’s Henry N. Barkhausen Award for original research. He served as President of the Canadian Nautical Research Society from 2020 to 2023 and is currently its Secretary. Prior to joining the CNRS, Moir was President of The Champlain Society (an organization devoted to publishing primary sources in Canadian history) from 2004 to 2010, and was Chair of its Publications Committee from 2003 to 2005.

Book Reviews Editor: Dr. Jean-Michel Turcotte

Dr. Turcotte is a historian at the Directorate of History and Heritage (DHH) of Canada's Department of National Defence. Before moving to Ottawa, he completed a PhD in history at Université Laval in 2018, and then held postdoctoral fellowships in Berlin, Potsdam and Mainz in Germany. As a specialist of the Second World War and the Korean War, his research interests encompass the history of wartime captivity, humanitarianism, international humanitarian law, peacekeeping and Canadian international and military history. His first monograph, Comment traiter les “Soldats d’Hitler”?, published in 2022 by Ottawa University Press, explores the detention of German prisoners of war in Canada, Britain and the United States during the Second World War. His research has been published in the Journal of Military History, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Canadian Historical Review, International History Review, Intelligence and National Security, Humanity, Bulletin d’histoire politique and Relations Internationales. At the DHH, he is currently working on the official history of the Canadian military observers in Indochina from 1954 to 1973, as well as on an Official History of Canadian Peace Support Operations, 1945-1971.

Production Editor: Walter Lewis

Walter Lewis served in the 1980s and 1990s as a member of the editorial board of FreshWater, the historical journal published by the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston. He has been a member of CNRS since 1984, a member of the executive since 2012, and the production editor of The Northern Mariner / le marin du nord since 2015.

Past Editors:

Dr. William Glover succeeded Professor Skip Fischer as General Editor from volume 11, no. 3 (2001) to volume 16, no. 2 (2006), when he was succeeded by Dr. Roger Sarty. Dr. Glover returned to the editor's chair (articles) with volume 25, no. 3 (2015), and passed on his duties after completing volume 30, no. 4 (2020). Dr. Peter Kikkert served as General Editor from volume 31 (2021) to volume 34 (2024). 

Editorial Board

Roger Sarty, Waterloo, Ontario (Chair)

Richard Gimblett, Port Hope, Ontario (Vice Chair)

Alicia Caporaso, New Orleans, Louisiana

Andrew Cook, Fife, UK

Serge Durflinger, Gatineau, Quebec

Roy Fenton, London, UK

Cheryl Fury, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Matthew Heaslip, Portsmouth, UK

Ingo Heidbrink, Norfolk, Virginia

Anna Gibson Holloway, Washington, DC

Olaf Janzen, Corner Brook, Newfoundland

Lincoln Paine, Portland, Maine

James C. Rentfrow, Annapolis, Maryland

Evan Wilson, Newport, Rhode Island

Tom Malcomson, Toronto, Ontario (ex officio)

Errolyn Humphreys, Ottawa, Ontario (ex officio)