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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"History--Canadian"”.
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Closed systems : Alexandra Luke, Hortense Gordon and the Canadian art history canon
The marginalization of women's art within the Canadian art history canon articulates the dichotomy which exists between the practice of making art in a Canadian context and the selective recording of that practice within written history. Canadian painters Alexandra Luke and Hortense Gordon made …
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Wife battering policies, programs and definitions: A social constructionist analysis.
This thesis examines the social definition process of the social problem of wife battering in Canada from 1970 to 1990. The primary component of the thesis is an examination of the development of various conceptual frameworks. The issue of wife battering would not have evolved as a social problem …
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Transfer of jurisdiction for education: A paradox in regard to the constitutional entrenchment of Indian rights to education and the existing treaty No. 3 rights to education.
Education, to date, has failed Indian people. Shortfalls in education provided to Indian people, brought about by constitutionally sanctioned discrimination under s. 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867 and made operant by the Indian Act, 1876 and a boarding school system, is well documented in the …
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Le réseau postal et son rôle dans l'articulation du système urbain au Nouveau-Brunswick entre 1870 et 1970.
Avant la confederation canadienne, la province du Nouveau-Brunswick ne possedait qu'un seul centre urbain en importance, soit celui de Saint John. Notre these demontre qu'il existe un lien entre la croissance demographique de certaines localites du Nouveau-Brunswick et leur integration au reseau …
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Exercising Canada's autonomy in foreign relations: The King government and the Irish question in World War II.
… It was evident that Irish neutrality allowed the Canadian government to follow a separate foreign policy not only within the Commonwealth but outside as well.
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Les seigneuries dans le territoire actuel de l'Ontario.
Ce travail a pour but de démontrer que les quatre seigneuries de l'Ontario (Pointe-à-L'Orignal, Katarakoüï et les arrière-fiefs Toneguignon et Belle-Isle) étaient des rejetons du commerce des fourrures français. Conséquemment, le régime seigneurial, tel qu'il était appliqué dans les Pays-d'en-haut, …
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Andrew Allan, Nathan Cohen, and Mavor Moore: Cultural nationalism and the growth of English-Canadian drama, 1945 to 1960.
… Moore: Cultural Nationalism and the Growth of Canadian Drama 1945-1960" is concerned with the texture and substance of English-Canada's cultural life in the decade and a half following World War II. This thesis represents a case study in English-Canadian cultural nationalism by focussing on the …
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Niagara Frontier and the War of 1812
Abstract not available.
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Clothing children in English Canada, 1870 to 1930.
… using clothing as a point of entry into the history of masculinity and femininity. What also emerges is the importance of the mother/son relationship, as portrayed by the process of dressing children. Overtime, rituals associated with clothing children altered. This daily process required …
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Naissance et développement de l'affaire du sang contaminé au Canada.
Ce travail de recherche porte sur la description de la multiplicité des voies de la justice lors d'un illégalisme défini comme une affaire. L'illégalisme qui est étudié dans cette thèse appartient au domaine de la santé publique. Notre recherche de type qualitatif descriptif a pour objet la …
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Communication, complexity and empire: The systemic thought of Harold Adams Innis.
… years after his death in 1952, his writings on Canadian economic history and history of communication technologies are still highly regarded, still widely cited and still viewed as providing an exceptionally powerful framework for interpreting the histories of societies past and present. The …
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Jean-Dennis Daule et son époque
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'Thinking it Savors of the Miraculous': The Manitoba Institute for the Deaf and Dumb and the Growth of Deaf Public Life in Manitoba, 1884-1909
This study analyzes the role of the Manitoba Institute of the Deaf and Dumb in the growth of deaf communities in Brandon and Winnipeg, Manitoba. It asserts, using Habermas’s theoretical model of the growth of the public sphere, that while the school was built in response to an educational crisis …
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From Science in the Arctic to Arctic Science: A Transnational Study of Arctic Travel Narratives, 1818-1883
… narratives from Danish, British, and British-Canadian Arctic explorations, I show that changes in ideas about what it meant to be an authoritative observer of Arctic phenomena were linked to tensions in imperial ambitions, national identity, and international collaboration. By framing polar …
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Stepping off the paper trail? Rethinking the mainframe era at the Public Archives of Canada
During the 1960s and 1970s, Canadians increasingly used computers and computerized processes for government and business purposes. By the 1980s, some began to have personal computers at home. This thesis examines the experiences of emerging computerization by focusing on the Public Archives of …
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Un siècle de voltairianisme au Canada français, 1760--1875
Abstract not available.
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Images of Americans: The United States in Canadian newspapers during the 1960s
This thesis analyses Canadian newspaper images of Americans during the 1960s. The content of the study is derived from twenty newspapers drawn from four Canadian cities---Halifax, Quebec City, Ottawa, and Vancouver---and covers five specific events during the 1960s which each prompted a flurry of …
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Circular Progress: Health and Healthcare within Albertan Indian Residential Schools, 1920 - 1950
This study provides a systematic analysis of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health of the pupils in Indian Residential Schools from 1920 – 1950. It focusses on a single province – Alberta – and utilizes an inter-disciplinary approach to understand how the interaction between the …
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Bishop Alexander Macdonell and education in Upper Canada
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