Well if you think Historical Archaeology is a relatively new discipline in the United States, you should take at look at Canada, or at least the province of Ontario. At the moment the only institutions doing any significant historical archaelogy in the province are government institutions such as Parks Canada and the Ontario Heritage Foundation (as well as a few CRM projects at the municipal level). Within the university structure there are NO institutions specializing in Historical Archaeology, and those institutions and faculty that do (and there are only a few) dabble in it, do so out of marginal interest, or out of pity for those graduate students such as myself who have "historic tendencies". There are very few univeristies that offer courses in Historical Archaeology (both at the graduate and undergraduate level)), those that do, offer them on an irregular basis. Trent Univeristy and the Univeristy of Toronto for the most part are the only two universities that have some kind of program designed for historical archaeology interests. With regards to the status of Historical Archaeology I would say it is very low. Most practicing archaeologists in the the university sphere are prehistoric archaeologists, who consider historic sites to be little more than the "overburden" to prehistoric sites. The antiquarian attitude of what is `older' and `exotic' is more important, in my opinion, seems to prevail here. Of course I can not speak for the rest of the country however the situation is somewhat better in British Columbia, and Alberta where for example Simon Fraser University (BC), has had a program established for several years now. However, these programs are no comparison to what is being offered at schools such as William and Mary, U Mass. etc... Anyway I could go on, but I like to limit my tirades to a few paragraphs - it keeps me sane. Vito Vaccarelli Trent University.