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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1989)This thesis is a study in the historic and literary value of Maritime women's diaries. I attempt to justify the necessity for the study of women's diaries by briefly looking at and categorizing all the published diaries ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2004)Cape Breton fiddle music is an art form rooted in Scottish Gaelic tradition. Because of an economic restructuring in Scotland between the late 1700s and mid 1800s, more than 30 000 Scottish Gaels emigrated to the island ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2002)Twentieth-century Nova Scotia witnessed the lighthouse service evolve towards the peak of its technical sophistication and human importance, and eventually decline to its lowest level of practical significance. The automation ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2001)The hypothesis of this dissertation is that tourism initiatives are more sustainable if planning is done from the community level in consultation with tourism professionals. This is proven through an examination of four ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2003)In 1971 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television network produced a documentary film which stated that the traditional form of Scottish-style, instrumental fiddle music in Cape Breton was in decline and would die ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1989)This thesis is based on five narrative obiturary poems, and tape recorded interviews with people from the Aspy Bay region of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The interviews are principally from 1985 to 1989. The aim of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1991)Hugh MacLennan's Barometer Rising, Charles Bruce's The Channel Shore, and Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley and The Cruelest Month are concerned with the transformation of pre-modern rural communities to a ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1996)As an interdisciplinary effort, this thesis will supplement its primary commitment to literary analysis with discussion of Alistair MacLeod's interpretation of the occupational culture of Western Cape Breton Island, including ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1996)As governments curtail their direct involvement in local economies and the private sector downsizes and traditional activities such as the fishery are in serious decline, the livelihood of small towns and rural communities ...
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