maintain the "reliable and up-to-date" contours of institutional and statistical "authenticated and furnished facts." The second and third editions were "revised and rewritten" to emphasize his conception of "history" over "sociological features" and vice-versa. Passages from the first edition as well as "rewritten" contentions and "facts" warrant critical examination, especially those on leaseholding, the persistence of "practically universal suffrage" after 1893, agriculture, oyster mussel mud digging, the educational system, and Gaelic as well as French Acadian populations. Legislative reporter Frank H. Risteen's four editions of The Celestial City was another contemporaneous example, published after General Assembly debates over unicameralism in the capital of New Brunswick. The 1898 first edition narrated the origins of the provincial General Assembly in Fredericton and associated unicameral built environments. Risteen's depiction of Fredericton and wider New Brunswick infrastructure, ecologies, and commerce warrant critical examination, especially his passages on "a town of 2,500 inhabitants owned and controlled by one man more absolutely than the Czar of Russia controls his vast domains; but the reign of this industrial Alexander is a beneficient one; his subjects are contented and law-abiding, and Marysville is in all respects a model community." Periodicals published for "the social and political advancement" of Irish Roman Catholics and French Acadians in New Brunswick similarly illuminated the politics of "race and religion" for, and illustrated narratives crafted by, parliamentary reporters such as Michael McDade. In 1902, McDade recounted his early days as a "boy [sent] to Fredericton to take his first lessons in parliamentary reporting." References External links The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1891, JA Gemmill 1829 births 1919 deaths People from Kings County, Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island Liberal Party MLAs