Leo Driedger, Department of Sociology, University of Manitoba specializes in Ethnic Relations and Urban Sociology. His research has taken him to Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, Cologne, Toronto, Carleton, British Columbia and Waterloo, for extended periods. Driedger has published 120 scholarly refereed works, including 17 books, 70 refereed articles, and 35 invited chapters in edited books. He has served on the editorial boards of seven scholarly journals, is serving on the Board of Governors of the Prairie University Research Consortium of the Immigration and Integration Metropolis Project which received 2 million dollars from SSHRC. Driedger has also served on the Manitoba, Canadian and International boards of the Mennonite Central Committee, which has 1000 workers in 50 countries. His research and service have taken him to 80 countries in Asia, Europe, North and South America. In 1997 he will become the first Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Manitoba and he will receive the honor of Oustanding Contribution award from the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association in 1999.

Un de nos rares spécialistes d'histoire sociale et d'histoire des institutions de la Nouvelle-France et de la France de l'Ancien Régime, Jean-Claude Dubé, à travers de nombreux articles mais surtout trois ouvrages majeurs parus ces dernières années, a profondément renouvelé notre connaissance du monde des administrateurs coloniaux, des intendants en particulier.