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Bruce has published on Irish and English immigration to Canada; his <em>Irish Migrants in the Canadas <\/em>won several awards and remains in print in its second edition.&nbsp; In 2003 he hosted the first international conference on emigrant letters which resulted in an edited collection of analytical papers, <em>Letters Across Borders: The Epistolary Practices of International Migrants, <\/em>co-edited with David Gerber and Suzanne Sinke.&nbsp; His current research is on the North American monument industry, particularly its transition from craft to industry.&nbsp; He has published articles on the American Civil War headstone program and on gravestones of free persons of colour in Bermuda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bruce is active in the local heritage community in an advisory capacity to local government, and is involved with Pinhey\u2019s Point and Fairfields historic sites.&nbsp; He was the former City of Nepean&#8217;s historian from 1986 to 1990 and the author of <em>The City Beyond: A History of Nepean, Birthplace of Canada&#8217;s Capital,&nbsp;1792-1990 <\/em>(1991).&nbsp; His publications have received awards from the American Association for State and Local History, Canadian Historical Association, Ontario Historical Society, and Champlain Society, and his activities in heritage have been recognized by&nbsp;awards from&nbsp;the Ontario Heritage Trust, Ontario Genealogical&nbsp;Society, British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa, Institut d\u2019histoire et de recherche sur l&#8217;outaouais,&nbsp;and by the&nbsp;award of a Nepean 2000 Millennium Medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Supervisory areas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>18th-19th century Canadian social history<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gravestones, cemeteries and memorialization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Local and community history<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Immigration from 1760 to 1875<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>History of Ottawa, eastern Ontario and western Quebec<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rural history<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Gravestones and cemeteries; the North American monument industry; gravestones and gravestone carvers of Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia; gravestones, cemeteries and monuments of Bermuda; the American Civil War headstone program<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The heritage movement in Ottawa; Ottawa urban history<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Social, economic, and political history of March Township, Ontario<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>English and Irish emigration to British North America before Confederation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Emigrant letters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Honours and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2013 Nepean Museum Wall of Fame<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2013\u00a0Honorary Patron Member (honorary life membership), National Museum of Bermuda, \u201cin\u00a0recognition of \u2026 significant contributions to the Museum\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2005\u00a0Inducted into British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa\u2019s \u201cHall of Fame\u201d, for\u00a0\u201clong and varied contributions to the Society and to the field of genealogy\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2004\u00a0Ontario Heritage Foundation Community Recognition Program 2004 \u2013 on nomination by City of Ottawa in the area of Cultural Heritage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2000\u00a0Nepean 2000 Millennium Medal, in recognition of years of research, advice, and\u00a0consultative work with the City of Nepean concerning the City\u2019s past<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2000\u00a0Award of Merit from Ontario Genealogical Society to the Association for the Preservation\u00a0of Ontario Land Registry Office Documents (APOLROD), of which a founding director<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1993 Fred Landon Award, Ontario Historical Society, for the best book on Ontario local or\u00a0regional history (The City Beyond)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1992\u00a0Certificate of Commendation, American Association for State and Local History<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1992\u00a0Honorary life membership, Ontario Genealogical Society<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1990\u00a0Joseph Brant Award for the best book on Ontario&#8217;s multicultural heritage from the\u00a0Ontario Historical Society (<i>Irish Migrants in the Canadas<\/i>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1989\u00a0Floyd Chalmers Prize of the Champlain Society for the best work on the history of Ontario published in 1988 (<i>Irish Migrants in the Canadas<\/i>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1987 Certificate of Recognition, Ontario Genealogical Society<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1986 \u00a0Philemon Wright Award, Institut d&#8217;histoire et de recherche sur l&#8217;outaouais<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cProclaiming Modernity in the Monument Trade: Barre Granite, Vermont Marble and National Advertising, 1910-1932\u201d in Susan Dobscha, ed., <em>Death in a Consumer Culture <\/em>(Routledge, 2016): 13-29<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCemetery Reform, Ultramontanism, and Irishness: the Creation of Holy Cross Roman Catholic Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia\u201d, for special number on Irish Catholic Halifax, Mark McGowan and Michael Vance, eds., of Canadian Catholic Historical Association, <em>Historical Studies<\/em>, 81 (2015): 105-138<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSecond wave: The Yorkshire legacy beyond Chignecto\u201d in Paul Bogaard, ed.,&nbsp;<i>Yorkshire immigrants to Atlantic Canada: Papers and proceedings from the Yorkshire 2000 conference&nbsp;<\/i>(Sackville, N.B.: Tantramar Heritage Trust, 2012)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMemorializing the Civil War Dead: Modernity and Corruption under the Grant Administration\u201d, <em>Markers <\/em>27 (2011), 14-55<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Proclaiming respectability across the colour line: Headstones of free blacks in St Peter\u2019s churchyard, St George\u2019s, Bermuda\u201d, <em>Post-Medieval Archaeology<\/em> 45, part 1 (2011), 19-211<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRecords of Labourers, Squatters, and Tenants on the Rideau Canal\u201d in Katherine M. McKenna, ed., <em>Labourers on the Rideau Canal, 1826-1832: From Work Site to World Heritage Site <\/em>(Ottawa: Borealis Press, 2008), 97-129<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Letters Across Borders: The Epistolary Practices of International Migrants<\/em> (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)&nbsp;(ed. with David Gerber and Suzanne Sinke)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018Settling Down\u2019: Masculinity and the Rite of Return in a Transnational Community,\u201d in Marjory Harper, ed., <em>Emigrant Homecomings<\/em> (Manchester: Machester University Press, 2005), 153-83<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Irish Migrants in the Canadas: A New Approach<\/em> (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2004), Second Edition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Graduate Supervisions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katherine Morrow, &#8220;Missing Memorials: The City of Ottawa and the Failure of Municipal First World War Commemoration&#8221;, MA research essay (2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dorothy-Jane Smith, \u201cThe <em>Ottawa Valley Journal<\/em> and the Modern Countryside: A City-Country Newspaper and the New Journalism in Eastern Ontario, 1887 to 1925\u201d, PhD thesis (2018)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer Halsall, \u201cRooted in the Land: Community, Memory, and Placemaking in Ottawa\u2019s Greenbelt\u201d, MA research essay (2018) (with John C. 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MA research essay (2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dorothy-Jane Smith, \u201cThe Community and the Fair: Vankleek Hill, West Hawkesbury Township and the Agricultural Fair, 1900 to 1950\u201d, MA thesis, (2011)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joshua Blank, \u201cReaching Back to Move Forward: Historical Memory and Cultural Re-definition in Canada\u2019s First Polish Community\u201d, MA thesis (2010)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Margaret Baines, \u201cTo Recover the Dead: The Lundy\u2019s Lane Historical Society and War of 1812 Reinterment Ceremonies in Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1891-1910\u201d, MA research essay (2010)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kathleen Talarico, \u201cStanding Shoulder to Shoulder: the&nbsp;Experience of the Italians who Immigrated to Ottawa in the Postwar Period,\u201d research essay (2008) (with Marilyn J. Barber)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karen Gabert, \u201cLocating Identity: The Ukrainian Canadian Heritage Village as a Public History Text\u201d, MA research essay (2007) (with John C. Walsh)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erik J.M. 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