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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Canadian history"”.
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The Science of Settler Colonialism: A Canadian History of the Thrifty Gene Hypothesis
This dissertation interrogates the history of the thrifty gene hypothesis, or the idea that Indigenous bodies are genetically predisposed to type-II diabetes. Though the hypothesis has been rejected by the scientific community at large as well as the very scientists who invented it, it continues to …
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The Dominion Express Building : a cultural investigation
… Style. Though traditional architectural history would minimize the importance of the Dominion Express Building, this study intends to reassert, through method developed by Cultural Studies, the building's significance in Canadian history. By extending the focus of architectural historical …
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Harvest Histories: A Social History of Mexican Farm Labour in Canada since 1974
… have occupied a longer and more complex place in Canadian history than most Canadians may approximate. It explores the historical precedents of seasonal farm labour in Canada through the lens of the interior or the personal on the one hand, through an oral history approach, and the external or the …
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Learning History to Understand the Present: Exploring Aspects of Historical Mindedness in Ontario’s High School History Curriculum, 2005-2013
… documents for Ontario’s Grade 10 course Canadian History since World War I released in 2005 and 2013. This course is worthy of study as this is the only mandatory History course at the high school level in the province. For many students Grade 10 History is also the final opportunity to …
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Sport, crisis, and Canadian identity in 1988: A cultural analysis
"1988 was a particularly noteworthy period in Canadian history. In fact, the particular intersection of a series of political, economic and cultural events led some people to suggest that 1988 constituted ""a year of crisis in Canadian identity"". Among those events were the Canada-United States …
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First Nations, museums and McCord Museum's journey Across borders
… Life , presented at the McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal, from June 17 th , 1999, to January 9 th , 2000, proved useful for this study and is thus the focus around which this thesis pivots.
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Whose hero? : images of Louis Riel in contemporary art and Métis nationhood
… perhaps one of the most controversial figures in Canadian history. In mainstream Canadian society, he is often described as a "Canadian hero", a "Father of Confederation", or the "Founder of Manitoba". He has become an icon for various organizations, political parties, and cultural groups in …
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The Beaver Hall Group and its place in the Montreal art milieu and the nationalist network
… of the Group also coincided with a period in Canadian history when Canada was casting off its colonial ties to England. Consequently, a nationalist cultural agenda developed among members of the English-Canadian intelligentsia. One of the goals of this network was to strike a national note in …
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The Righteous, The Brave, and The Restless: The Experiences of Neil "Piffles" Taylor, his Fellow Canadian Pilots, and Prisoners-of-War in the First World War
The experiences of Canadian airmen who served in the British flying services during the First World War have received a very focused treatment from historians. The wartime letters and diary of Saskatchewan veteran Neil Taylor, who served in the Royal Flying Corps, allow for a more complete …
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Securitization Theory and the Canadian Construction of Omar Khadr
… the context of a politically unsettled period in Canadian history: 2001 to 2005. The adoption of a securitization theory lens points to key social, historical and political discourses contributing to and challenging Omar Khadr’s nomination for ‘jettisonship’. It also leads me to find his expulsion …
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The Settler State is a White Woman: Re-Conceptualizing Audra Simpson’s Masculine State Through a Gendered Genealogy of Settler Colonial Statecraft in Canada
… for the oppressive colonial apparatus of the Canadian state with a gendered theory of settler statecraft. The ongoing evidence of heteropatriarchal violence targeting Indigenous women in Canada points her to adopt a wholly androcentric theory in which she argues that ‘the state is a man’. From …
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Seeing With Two Eyes: Colonial Policy, the Huron Tract Treaty and Changes in the Land in Lambton County, 1780-1867
… exceptions, literature on the subject of Upper Canadian history and Indian policy largely accepts the decline of Anishinabe communities as an inevitable consequence of demilitarization after the War of 1812. The fact that Anishinabe peoples continue to live in these same communities as they have …
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Not All Disability Is Created Equal: A Comparative Historiography Of Workers' Compensation And Disability Benefits In Ontario, Canada
… Although the argument holds for the early history of the two programs in their early history. the negative impact of neoliberalism on both workers’ compensation and the current benefits program in Ontario (the Ontario Disability Support Program) has created a convergence of interests …
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Building Boys, Building Canada: The Boy Scout Movement in Canada, 1908-1970
… The movement also extended its reach to the Canadian North as missionaries and government officials adopted the movement in residential and day schools across the country. The Canadian Scout movement provides a compelling lens to understand how language, religion, race and class shaped the …
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For The Good of Franco-Ontarians: Le Droit's Editorials, 1913-1933
In 1912 the Ontario government tabled Regulation 17 to severely limit teaching in French in provincial schools. Franco-Ontarians launched the newspaper Le Droit in March, 1913 to defeat the measure and protect minority language rights. The Oblats de Marie Immacule, an Ottawa-based Catholic …
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Maintenant nous te parlons, ne dedaigne pas nous ecouter Petitions et Relation Speciale entre les Premieres Nations et la Couronne au Canada, 1840-1860
This thesis analyzes the concept of the special relationship between First Nations and the Crown through the evolution of political relations between the colonial state and Indigenous communities in the Province of Canada from the 1840s to 1860s. It explores how this special relationship is linked …
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An Amikwa Family Through Their Eyes: An Auto-ethnographic Study of an Indigenous Community in Northern Ontario Canada
… on the Pickerel River. The Mcquabbie Family history is used as a platform for discussing larger socio-political issues directly connected to person-hood, and identity politics. Through this discussion, we attempt to unravel the multitude of ways in which knowledge and the production of …
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The Art of Sharing: The Richer Provinces Versus the Poorer Provinces Since Confederation
This thesis examines the social and political history of equalization, which is the federal program that allows all provinces to provide reasonably comparable levels of services for reasonably comparable levels of taxation. It examines why Ottawa adopted this mechanism in 1957, the models that it …
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Henry Langley, a Man Who Built Churches: Religion and Architecture in 19th-Century Ontario
Henry Langley (1836-1907), was the most prolific church architect for all denominations in what would become Ontario in the nineteenth century. This dissertation considers the church architecture of Henry Langley and his practice through an examination of the church designs and a close analysis of …
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"Talking About Down There": The Development of a Public Discussion of Cervical Cancer in the Twentieth Century
… lacuna. This thesis is a study of how Canadian women learned about cervical cancer and its prevention in the twentieth century. In particular, this thesis seeks to understand how, when and in what forms did a public discussion of cervical cancer prevention develop in late twentieth …
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