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Building Boys, Building Canada: The Boy Scout Movement in Canada, 1908-1970
This dissertation examines Canada’s largest organization for boys of the twentieth century - the Boy Scouts. In Scouting for Boys [1908], Robert Baden Powell argued that Scouting provided a universal model for countries of the British Empire to develop the physical, mental and spiritual development …
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Governing Immunization in Canada
… interface over the last decade (1997-2008) in Canada, situated against broader trends in public policy and public health. The research is based upon a case study design and a discursive approach to policy analysis, using documentary sources, supplemented with archival information, direct …
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The Physiography of Canada
<p>The physiographic features of Canada have a complex history which involve a Precambrian peneplain, followed by a long period of sedimentation interrupted in places by diastrophic events, and finally extensive glaciation. Since the turn of the nineteenth century several men have proposed …
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Dancing for Canada/Dancing Beyond Canada: The History of the National Ballet of Canada and Royal Winnipeg Ballet's International Tours, 1958-1974
… traces the growth of the National Ballet of Canada (NBC) and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet (RWB) through international ballet exchanges and reveals how foundational they were to the companies’ current reputations. In the mid-twentieth century, the development of Canadian ballet was intertwined …
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Religion and trust in Canada
Research on social capital during the past two decades has shown that willingness to trust is linked to a host of individual and social outcomes, such as health, education, democracy, and robust economies. In this thesis I examine the ways in which religion may affect attitudes of trust, employing …
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Paleohydrogeology of the Alberta Basin, Canada
<p>The origin and residence times of porefluids in the Alberta Basin have been debated for more than 40 years with conflicting conclusions reported by geochemical and hydrogeologic studies. In this study, brine migration and groundwater age were simulated over the last 100 million years, along a …
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Forecasting international regional arrivals in Canada
… arrival to the main regions of entry to Canada, using quarterly international arrival flows into the provinces of Canada from 2000Q1 to 2007Q4. The aim of this study is to determine whether accurate international regional forecasts can be derived; also to assess whether time-series or …
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Contemporary music in Canada: Alexina Louie.
Alexina Louie (1949-) is one of Canada's foremost composers of contemporary classical music. She was named "Composer of the Year 1986" by the Canada Music Council in the International Year of Canadian music. Her compositions have been commissioned and performed by Canada's major orchestras, …
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Glacial Geomorphology of southern Alberta, Canada
During deglaciation from the Last Glacial Maximum three terrestrial ice streams within the south western sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet competed and coalesced in southern Alberta; the High Plains Ice Stream (HPIS), Central Alberta Ice Stream (CAIS) and the east lobe. The ice streams are …
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The Demand for Meat in Canada
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T21:47:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0002745.pdf: 8298606 bytes, checksum: a5b4062095a67886b915a90a7abed69e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1951
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Triassic Stratigraphy of Western Central Canada
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T19:13:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6003892.pdf: 5933640 bytes, checksum: ab58510b0929ff53c4e810ce1917f48c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1960
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Youth de-radicalization : best practices for Canada
… are carried out in Western states. Although Canada has suffered relatively fewer acts of violence, this fear has intensified and a de-radicalization strategy is needed in the Canadian context. In a qualitative case study methodology, interviews were conducted with school counsellors, …
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Highland light infantry of Canada, 1940-1944
… battalion, the Highland Light Infantry of Canada, in the first five months of the campaign to liberate northwest Europe. The purpose of this paper is to establish a careful record of the unit’s campaign as a way of addressing the critical statements made by C.P. Stacey, the Official …
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Party images and party identification in Canada
… much of the efforts of previous analysts in Canada. In this thesis, we reexamine the conventional wisdom about party identification in Canada by looking at two questions. First, are party identification and the vote distinguishable empirical referents in Canada? And secondly, how can we …
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MOVING HOUSE: URBAN ABORIGINAL HOUSING IN CANADA
Existing research shows that Aboriginal people in Canada have higher rates of mobility than the rest of the population. Mobility, along with rentalship have been linked to housing insecurity. Using the 2006 Canadian Census Data, descriptive statistics and regression analyses were run to investigate …
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Defending Canada: Canadian Military Preparedness, 1867- 1902
… and colonial autonomy – that is to say, Canada attempted to decide for itself which military ventures in which it would engage, but Canadian leaders operated in a political world and they had to satisfy, at times, certain segments of the Canadian population that continued to have strong …
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