Stephen Davidson

Posted By: Vince McMullin , on Sunday, 04 February 2007

Stephen Davidson first saw his work in print in 1971 when he was a weekly high school columnist for the Moncton Times and Transcript. While editor of Acadia University’s student newspaper The Athenaeum, he wrote his 1975 thesis on the first black pastors of the Nova Scotia Baptist denomination. Now found on the shelves of the archives of the Black Cultural Centre of Nova Scotia and Acadia University, this thesis was the basis for his contribution to volume seven of The Dictionary of Canadian Biography. The creator of the education kit that accompanied the New Brunswick Museum’s first traveling exhibit, The Spirit of the Windships, Davidson has been a classroom teacher since 1981. In 2000 he was responsible for successfully launching Historica Fairs within the Halifax Regional School Board. Research into his own Loyalist heritage led him to write a number of manuscripts of historical fiction for young adults. Davidson lives with his wife and two daughters in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia. His e-book, The Burdens of Loyalty: Refugee Tales from the First American Civil War, was published by Trinity in the spring of 2007. Stephen Davidson is an educational consultant for Loyalist Perspectives, a website that will feature the stories of female Loyalists and Black Loyalists. This project is under the direction of Dr. Margaret Conrad, Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies at the University of New Brunswick. His middle-grade novel, Letters for Elly, was published in paper in June 2007.

 

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