Publications & Presentations

Management Publications

  • "Short Sea Shipping and the Ferry Industry", in Jonathan Cowie and Stephen Ison, editors, Routledge Handbook of the Principles of Transport Economics, 2017.
  • “Define, Defend and Promote: The Need to Differentiate Short Sea Shipping from International Shipping in the Application and Development of IMO Conventions and National Regulations and Policies”, for CSL Group (through Research and Traffic Group), 2013
  • "Providing Freight Services to Remote Arctic Communities: Are There Lessons for Practitioners from Services to Greenland and Canada's Northeast?", with Dr. Mary R. Brooks, Research in Transportation Business & Management, 2011
  • “Atlantic Canada Ports and Indian Trade”, Indian Ports and Infrastructure Review, November 2011 (with Robert J. McCalla)
  • "The Close Dry Port and the Canadian Context", Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference, Canadian Transportation Research Forum, May 30-June 2, 2010
  • "Short Sea Developments in Europe - Lessons for Canada" (with Dr. Mary R. Brooks), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference, Canadian Transportation Research Forum, May 24-27, 2009; reprinted by North American Transportation Competitiveness Research Council, Working Paper 10, July 2009
  • "Reaching Out: Transload extends the accessible market in Halifax", (with Stephen Kymlicka), Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, July 2007
  • "The Use of Containers in Canada", Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference, Canadian Transportation Research Forum, June 3-6, 2007
  • "Shipping Out: The Development of a Gateway Hub at the Port of Halifax", Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, April 2006
  • "Short Sea Shipping: a Canadian perspective" (with Dr. Mary R. Brooks), Maritime Policy Management, Oct-Dec 2004, Vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 393-407.
  • "Port-Ability: A Private Sector Strategy for the Port of Halifax," Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, June 2001 (with Brian Lee Crowley and Charles Cirtwill).
  • Dartmouth Industrial Profile, City of Dartmouth Industrial Commission, 1980
  • Industrial Opportunities in the Annapolis Valley, Annapolis Valley Affiliated Boards of Trade, 1980

 

History Publications

  • "The Merchants' Bank of Halifax, 1864-1901", Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, forthcoming, 2018
  • "The Stairs Fleet of Halifax", The Northern Mariner, Vol. XXII, No. 3. (July 2012)
  • "The Union Bank of Halifax, 1856-1910", Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 2012, Vol. 15, 2012
  • Review Article" Corey Slumkowski, Inventing Atlantic Canada: Regionalism and the Maritime Reaction to Newfoundland's Entry into Canadian Confederation, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011, in International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. XXIII, No 2, December 2011, pp. 394-96.
  • Canada's Atlantic Gateway: An Illustrated History of the Port of Halifax, 1749-2007, Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, 2008
  • "Halifax: The Wharf of the Dominion, 1867-1914": Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 2005
  • Merchant Princes: Halifax's First Family of Finance, Ships and Steel, James Lorimer & Company, Toronto, 2003
  • "Dartmouth Ropeworks, 1868-1956," in James E. Candow, ed., Industry and Society in Nova Scotia: An Illustrated History, Fernwood Press, Tantallon, 2001
  • "Max Aitken and Maritime Finance", Acadiensis Vol. XXX, 2 (Spring 2001), pp. 131-140.
  • "The Aborted British Invasion: The Case of Swan Hunter Shipbuilders, 1899-1915," Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 1999
  • "Thomas Fyshe," Dictionary of Canadian Biography,Vol. XIV, 1997
  • "The 'Nationalization' of the Bank of Nova Scotia, 1880-1910", Acadiensis, The Journal of the History of the Atlantic Provinces, Vol. XII, No. 1, Autumn 1982; reprinted in Tom Traves, ed. Essays in Canadian Business History, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1984; and Industrialization and Underdevelopment in the Maritimes, 1880-1930, Garamond Press, Toronto, 1985

 

Presentations

  • “Solutions and Obstacles to Revitalizing Great Lakes Goods Transportation”, presentation at Transportation Research Board, Washington, January, 11, 2016
  • “The Changing Face of Containerization, 1956-2015”, webinar, Canadian Institute of Trade and Transportation (CITT), October 7, 2015
  • “Short Sea Shipping in North America”, 6th European Shortsea Congress, Hamburg, October 9, 2013
  • Frost and Brooks, "Short Sea Shipping Lessons from Europe Revisited", Short Sea Shipping: Current and Future, Montreal, March 19, 2013
  • Frost and Brooks, "Nunavut and Greenland Shipping", Arctic Shipping Forum, Montreal, October 29, 2012
  • "Atlantic Region Ports and Markets", Atlantic Prosperity Conference, October 2, 2012
  • Short Sea Shipping: Incentives, Obstacles and Solutions", Highway H2O Conference, Toronto, 2011
  • "Halifax-mid-West Trade Development", Atlantic Gateway Symposium, Halifax, June 2011
  • "Short Sea Shipping at Canadian Port Authorities", Association of Canadian Port Authorities, St. John's, 2010
  • "Short Sea Shipping in Canada: Lessons Learned and Research Model for the Development of New Services", Transportation Research Board, Irvine, CA, June 2010
  • "Short Sea in Europe: Some Lessons for Canada", Highway H2O, Toronto, November 2009
  • "Inland Terminal Case Studies", Atlantic Gateway Symposium, Halifax, October 2009 
  • "Canadian Shipping Policy Overview", Consultative Shipping Group -International Chamber of Shipping, Vancouver, May 2009
  • "Gateways and Corridors: The Atlantic Perspective", Association of Canadian Port Authorities, Saint John, August 2008
  • "Transload and Distripark Presentation", Atlantic Gateway Symposium, August 2008
  • "Building the Halifax Gateway: A New Vision for the Future", presentation to Senate Committee on Containerisation, February 9, 2008
  • "Short Sea Shipping on the East Coast", JoC Canada-Maritime Conference, Vancouver, June 2006
  • "East Coast Short Sea Shipping Study", Canadian Transportation Research Forum, panelist, May 2006
  • "Shortsea Shipping Applications and Innovations Explored", North American Marine Conference, Moderator, panel discussion, , April 2006
  • "Short Sea Shipping: An Atlantic Canada Perspective", Short Sea Shipping Conference, Hilton Head, SC, 19-20 April, 2004
  • "The Wharf of the Dominion: The Port of Halifax, 1850-2000," Atlantic Canada Workshop, St. Francis Xavier University, August, 2001
  • "The Wharf of the Dominion: The Port of Halifax, 1850-2000," Canadian Economics Association, McGill University, June 2001
  • "The Aborted British Invasion: The Case of Swan Hunter, 5th Canadian Business History Conference, McMaster University, October 1998
  • "The Aborted British Invasion: The Case of Swan Hunter," Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, October 1999
  • "Cruising Labrador," Sydney Harbour Port Day, June 1994
  • "The Nationalization of the Bank of Nova Scotia," Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, June 1980