{"id":205,"date":"2024-03-20T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robertson-library-revitalization\/?p=205"},"modified":"2025-03-26T13:41:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:41:34","slug":"dr-alan-maceachern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robertson-library-revitalization\/dr-alan-maceachern\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Alan MacEachern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thank you, UPEI Robertson Library, and Islandora for the IslandArchives.ca project. As sometimes PEI scholar, in exile, I appreciate so much the research opportunities that IslandArchives.ca has afforded me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a concrete example. Many years ago, I wrote an MA thesis on early tourism on PEI. When recently co-writing with Ed MacDonald a book on the history of tourism on PEI, he and I both assumed I would rely largely on the MA to write the pre-1945 chapters \u2013 particularly because I would be writing while in Ontario. Instead, I found myself able to do a phenomenal amount of new research online, thanks to IslandArchives.ca\u2019s \u201cIsland Newspapers,\u201d \u201cIsland Stories,\u201d \u201cIsland Maps,\u201d and other collections. As a result of the variety of material online, and its accessibility and ease of search, I utterly changed what I thought about PEI tourism\u2019s early years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have used IslandArchives.ca in perhaps a half-dozen provincial, regional, and national historical projects over the past half-dozen years. Beyond that, knowing how useful the site is means I want to contribute collections of my own to it. And knowing that it is supported and has a stable home at UPEI means that I feel safe to contribute to such collections. As you know, I hope in the next little while to offer 3 PEI collections and related material to IslandArchives.ca: on back-to-the-landers, on the 1876 historical survey, and on Environment Canada\u2019s PEI weather observations. This isn\u2019t entirely selfless of me: IslandArchives.ca is the leading online repository of Island historical material, so where better to showcase a collection that will be found by Islanders and non-Islanders alike for many years to come?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robertson-library-revitalization\/files\/2025\/03\/stacks_inline.jpeg\" alt=\"Robertson Library shelving stacks\" class=\"wp-image-207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robertson-library-revitalization\/files\/2025\/03\/stacks_inline.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robertson-library-revitalization\/files\/2025\/03\/stacks_inline-300x180.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robertson-library-revitalization\/files\/2025\/03\/stacks_inline-768x461.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robertson-library-revitalization\/files\/2025\/03\/stacks_inline-973x584.jpeg 973w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/robertson-library-revitalization\/files\/2025\/03\/stacks_inline-508x305.jpeg 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PEI has far and away the most comprehensive coverage of historical material online of any Canadian province \u2013 of any jurisdiction I can think of, in fact. That\u2019s in part due to PEI\u2019s small size and population, and that it has been a political entity for so long, of course. But it\u2019s also due to the phenomenal foresight, hard work, and talent of you and your team at Robertson Library and Islandora. Thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alan MacEachern<br>Professor, Department of History<br>The University of Western Ontario<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, UPEI Robertson Library, and Islandora for the IslandArchives.ca project. 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