Book launch
Everyone is invited to attend the launch of two books, one a history of tourism on PEI and the other related to the Islands famous author L.M. Montgomery, on Tuesday, June 21, at 7 pm, at the Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building, 17勛圖. The Summer Trade: A History of Tourism on Prince Edward Island, written by Dr. Edward MacDonald and Dr. Alan MacEachern, tracks the evolution of tourism on PEI from its beginning in the nineteenth century to the COVID-19 pandemic. Edited by Dr. Holly Pike and Dr. Laura Robinson, L.M. Montgomery and Gender includes essays by 19 contributors on a variety of topics from historical analyses of the White Feather campaign and discussions of adoption to medical discourses of death and disease, explorations of Montgomerys use of humour, and the authors rewriting of masculinist traditions.