Stephen Kimber is the Rogers Communications Chair in Journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax. He is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He is the author of one novel, Reparations (Harper Collins, 2006) , and six non-fiction books. His most recent book, Loyalists and Layabouts: the rapid rise and faster fall of Shelburne N.S., was published by Doubleday in 2008.