Kerry Abel was a professor in the Department of History at Carleton University.

Ken Coates is Dean of the College of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan. He has published widely on northern Canadian history, and his books include Canada's Colonies: A History of the Yukon and Northwest Territories, Best Left as Indians: Indian-White Relations in the Yukon Territory and, with W.R. Morrison, The Sinking of the Princess Sophia and the Alaska Highway in World War II.