Short Bio:聽Bruce Elliott is a specialist in 18th聽and 19th聽century social and immigration history, in local and community history (both as a discipline and in the specific contexts of eastern Ontario and western Quebec), and in material culture, public history and heritage studies. He was the graduate chair of 杏吧原创鈥檚 Department of History for seven years, and was one of the founders of its MA in Public History, in which he remains active as a teacher and supervisor.聽His current research is on the North American monument industry, particularly its transition from craft to industry. Bruce is active in the local heritage community in an advisory capacity to local government, and is involved with Pinhey鈥檚 Point and Fairfields historic sites.聽 He was the former City of Nepean鈥檚 historian from 1986 to 1990 and the author of The City Beyond: A History of Nepean, Birthplace of Canada鈥檚 Capital,聽1792-1990 (1991). 聽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聽awards from聽the Ontario Heritage Trust, Ontario Genealogical聽Society, British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa, Institut d鈥檋istoire et de recherche sur l鈥檕utaouais,聽and by the聽award of a Nepean 2000 Millennium Medal.
Research:聽鈥淪econd wave: The Yorkshire legacy beyond Chignecto鈥� in Paul Bogaard, ed.,聽Yorkshire immigrants to Atlantic Canada: Papers and proceedings from the Yorkshire 2000 conference聽(Sackville, N.B.: Tantramar Heritage Trust, 2012); 鈥淢emorializing the Civil War Dead: Modernity and Corruption under the Grant Administration鈥�, Markers 27 (2011), 14-55; Proclaiming respectability across the colour line: Headstones of free blacks in St Peter鈥檚 churchyard, St George鈥檚, Bermuda鈥�, Post-Medieval Archaeology 45, part 1 (2011), 19-211.