| James (Jay) F.E. White, PhD Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada |
E-mail: jaywhites(at)gmail(period)com Tel: +1 (902) 420-1223 Website: jaywhite.ca |
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EDUCATION |
Ph.D. McMaster University (1994) Download my PhD dissertation | |
| M.A. Dalhousie University (1984) | ||
| B.A. Mount Allison University (1982) | ||
| Doctoral fields Canadian History (Major); U.S. & British (Minors) | ||
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PLACEMENTS |
2003-2013 Assistant Professor, Royal Military College of Canada | |
| 2006 Assistant Professor, St. Mary’s University | ||
| 2004-2005 Assistant Professor, Mount Saint Vincent University | ||
| 1999-2005 Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University | ||
| 1997-1998 Assistant Professor, Acadia University | ||
| 1994-1996 Visiting Lecturer, Western Washington University | ||
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COMMISSIONED RESEARCH | 2015 – Explosion in Halifax Harbour, 1917. Client: Canada Post Corporation |
| 2014 – Military Units of Halifax Fortress in Two World Wars. Client: Parks Canada Agency | |
| 2014 – Garrison Response to the Halifax Explosion. Client: Parks Canada Agency | |
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| 2013 – Norwegian Contributions to Canadian Arctic Exploration Research Report. Client: Canada Post Corporation |
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| 2012 – Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1918 Research Report. Client: Canada Post Corporation |
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| 2011 – Cable Ships Research. Mid-19th century and post-1970 aspects. Client: Maritime Museum of the Atlantic |
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| 2009 – “East Coast Port”: Halifax at War, 1939-1945 Digitization Project. Consultant and contributing author. Client: Nova Scotia Archives |
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| 2008 – Canadian Navy Centenary Research Report. Client: Canada Post Corporation |
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| 2008 – MS St. Louis and the Hamburg-American Line. Client: Maritime Museum of the Atlantic |
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| 2008 – “Canada’s Ocean Playground”: The Tourism Industry in Nova Scotia, 1870-1970 Digitization Project. Consultant and contributing author. Client: Nova Scotia Archives |
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| 2007 – Captain Robert A. Bartlett, Arctic explorer Research Report. Client: Canada Post Corporation |
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| 2000 – Impact of Ocean Liners on Nova Scotia. Client: Maritime Museum of the Atlantic |
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PEER-REVIEWED | “Mobility in Place: The Irish-Catholics of Victorian Halifax,” Historical Studies Occasional Paper Vol. 81, Canadian Catholic Historical Association (2015), 139-166. |
| “‘A Vista of Infinite Development’: Surveying Nova Scotia’s Early Tourism Industry,” Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society Journal Vol. 6 (2003), 144-169. | |
| “God’s Ark: Subscription Book Publishing and the Titanic,” Acadiensis XXVIII, No. 2 (Spring 1999), 93-118. | |
| “Hardly Heroes: Canadian Merchant Seamen and the International Convoy System,” The Northern Mariner/Le Marin Du Nord, Vol. V, No. 4 (October 1995), 19-36. | |
| “Exploding Myths: The Halifax Harbour Explosion in Historical Context” in Alan Ruffman and Colin D. Howell, eds., Ground Zero: A Reassessment of the 1917 Explosion in Halifax Harbour (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 1994). | |
| “The Homes Front: The Accommodation Crisis in Halifax, 1941-1951,” Urban History Review, XX No. 3 (February 1992), 117-127. | |
| “Halifax: Ein kanadisches Etappen-Gebiet,” in M.Hiller, Eberhard Jackel, and Jurgen Rohwer, eds., Stadte im 2. Weltkrieg (Essen: Klartext Verlag, 1991), 168-183. | |
| “Pulling Teeth: Striking for the Check-off in the Halifax Shipyards, 1944,” Acadiensis, XIX No. 1 (Fall 1989), 115-141. Reprinted in Michael Earle, ed., Workers and the State in Nova Scotia (Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1989). | |
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GENERAL ARTICLES | Review of Steven Schwinghamer and Jan Raska, Pier 21: A History Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society Journal Vol. 24 (2021). |
| Review of Joan Dawson, Nova Scotia’s Lost Communities: The Early Settlements That Helped Build the Province Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society Journal Vol. 22 (2019). | |
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| Review of Colin Pengelly, Sir Samuel Hood and the Battle of the Chesapeake Canadian Naval Review (Winter 2010), 42-43. |
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| Review of Barry Gough, Through Water, Ice & Fire: Schooner Nancy of the War of 1812 Canadian Naval Review (Spring 2008), 43-44. |
| “Portia White,” Halifax Daily News Supplement, 25 March 2001. | |
| Review of Marshall Everett, ed., Story of the Wreck of the Titanic (reprint, 1999) The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord, (Fall 1999), 58-59. | |
| Review of Robert G. Halford’s The Unknown Navy: Canada’s Merchant Marine in World War II in The Northern Mariner/Le Marin Du Nord, Vol. VI, No. 4 (October 1996). | |
| “Conversations with Capt. Anthony MacPherson Ross, F.R.G.S., M.I.N.,” serialized in four parts, Argonauta, XI, Nos.1-4 (1994). | |
| “Forlorn Hope: The Last Stand of HMS Jervis Bay,” Halifax Chronicle-Herald, 2 November 1990, B1-B2. | |
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2nd LANGUAGE COMPETENCE | French language proficiency (C/B/C; Public Service of Canada tested 11/2006) |
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FREELANCE ASSIGNMENTS | Private Tour Operator, Coastline Custom Tours, 2015-2022 Lecturer/tour guide, Road Scholar programs, 2011-2019 Private tour guide, Canbird Tours (Halifax), 2013-2015 Onboard historian, Haimark Cruise Line, 2015 Onboard historian, Cruise West, 2006 Onboard historian, Clipper Cruise Line, 2000-2005 |