Overcoming Cost Barriers for Maritime History Research in New Brunswick

GrantID: 75359

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New Brunswick's fishing communities face elevated per-project costs for humanities fieldwork because primary archival collections sit in Fredericton while active fishing harbours lie along the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of St. Lawrence coasts. Average round-trip travel between these sites exceeds 400 kilometres, and commercial air access remains limited outside Moncton. Researchers tracking the fishing industry's contraction since 1992 must therefore budget repeated ground transport plus accommodation in towns whose seasonal lodging rates spike during summer months.

These cost pressures fall most heavily on independent scholars and small nonprofits without university overhead accounts. In 2023, New Brunswick recorded 1,872 active fishing licences, yet only 14 percent of humanities grant applications originated from researchers based east of Saint John. Oral-history interviews with multigenerational fishing families require multiple visits timed to off-season schedules, inflating both lodging and transcription expenses. Institutions in Edmundston or Campbellton encounter additional courier fees when shipping fragile logbooks to coastal field sites.

The international humanities grant offsets these barriers by permitting line-item requests for regional travel at federal mileage rates and for secure digital scanning equipment that reduces the need for repeated physical access. Applicants must itemise projected kilometres against documented harbour locations and demonstrate that no equivalent digital surrogates exist in the Provincial Archives. Budgets showing more than 35 percent of total funds allocated to intra-provincial transport receive priority scoring when paired with letters from fishing associations confirming interview access.

Unlike neighbouring Quebec programs that favour Montreal- or Quebec City-based teams, New Brunswick applications succeed only when they quantify extreme coastal dispersion and the absence of year-round commercial flights. Reviewers therefore examine whether proposed costs reflect actual ferry schedules to Grand Manan or the necessity of winter travel to ice-free harbours for seasonal data collection. Successful proposals also document contingency funds for weather-related rescheduling, a line absent from applications focused on southern New Brunswick's denser road networks.

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