Raymond B. Blake is a professor of history at the University of Regina and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has held visiting professorships at Philipps-Universität Marburg and University College Dublin, where he has twice held the Craig Dobbin Chair in Canadian Studies. Blake is the former director of both the Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy and the Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. He has written and edited more than twenty books and is co-author of Where Once They Stood: Newfoundland’s Rocky Road Towards Confederation, which won several awards including a Pierre Savard Award from the International Council for Canadian Studies. Blake lives in Regina.