Awards and Honors
- Donner Medal in Canadian Studies, Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS), 2023
- John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, American Association of Geographers, for Picturing America, 2018
- University of Maine System Trustee Professor, 2016
- Best “Book/Atlas” and “Best of Show,” Cartography and Geographic Information Society, for Historical Atlas of Maine, 2016
- Maine Literary Award for Excellence in Publishing, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, for Historical Atlas of Maine, 2016
- Globe Award, American Association of Geographers, for Historical Atlas of Maine, 2016
- Pierre Savard Award, International Council for Canadian Studies, for Surveyors of Empire, 2013
- John Lyman Book Award in the category Naval and Maritime Science and Technology, North American Society for Oceanic History, for Surveyors of Empire, 2012
- Publication of the Year Award, Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation, for Surveyors of Empire, 2012
- Caird Short-term Research Fellowship, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 2007
- Cleo Award (Atlantic Canada), Canadian Historical Association, forNineteenth-Century Cape Breton, 1993
- Commonwealth Scholarship, 1979-1984
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