Maxime Dagena is a post-doctoral fellow at the Wilson Institute for Canadian history at McMaster University. He is the author of numerous articles and conference papers including “‘L'histoire dira que Lord Durham a préféré une petite faction, et l'exposera comme une des aberrations humaines de notre époque.’ How Lord Durham lost French-Canadian Support, June to October 1838” and “Defending French-Canada: Le Fantasque, Censorship and the Special Council of Lower Canada, 1838-1841.” He is the author of The Land in Between: The Upper Saint John Valley, Prehistory to World War I. Dagena has also contributed to the Canadian Encyclpedia.