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Ecological restoration is a growing field of study designed to holistically assess damage to ecological integrity, as well as identify scientific, social, economic, and political strategies to remediate these negative impacts, and reconcile human and broader ecosystem needs. While significant advancement has been made on the scientific end, other aspects are lagging. Ecological restoration is promising in its intrinsically inclusive and multi-dimensional approach to improving environmental quality and providing tangible socio-economic value through healthy ecosystem services, however for it...

In A Meeting of the People Roderick MacLeod and Mary Anne Poutanen look at the Protestant public education system and the communities that established, and were served by, its schools, from the origins of public education in 1801 to the dissolution of confessional school boards in 1998. They focus on key issues such as class, ethnicity, religion, gender, health and welfare, patriotism, and the nature of local administration, bringing to life the people who attempted to establish and maintain schools and considering relationships between school trustees, parents, teachers, and the wider...

MacLeod (Protestant education research, McGill U.) and Poutanen (history, Concordia U.) trace the fortunes of the Quebec Protestant school system from its beginning to when the provincial government abolished confessional school boards. The records they searched are kept in various obscure places across Quebec, often in environments not conducive t