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Browsing Masters Theses by Author "Reid, John G., 1948-"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1992)Three Anglican women's religious orders existed in Nova Scotia in the last century. The Sisters of Saint Margaret managed the Church Hospital from 1891 to 1893, the Sisters of Saint John the Divine operated All Saints' ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1996)This thesis explores privateering from the British Colonies in North American in the period between 1793 and 1805. It asks why individuals and communities turned to privateering and how they were affected by the enterprise. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1987)As the age of industrialization dawned in the Maritime Provinces in the late nineteenth century many rural districts of the region found themselves facing new challenges. Particularly hard hit were areas where industrial ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1993)Abstract (Summary) From 1897 to 1952, there were at least twenty-six women missionaries of the Methodist/United Church of Canada (hereafter, UCC) from the Maritime region sent to work in Sichuan (Szechwan) Province of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2004)This thesis compares the perceptions and observations of the aboriginal people of North America in the writings of Captain John Smith and Samuel de Champlain. Such a study helps to clarify the murky subject of European-North ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2007)Near Debert, in central Nova Scotia, lie 12,000-year old archaeological remains. Sophisticated hunters and tool makers utilized the resources of Mother Earth to care for their families in a land only sixty miles from ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009)C. Anthony Law was a classically trained artist whose style was rooted in the Group of Seven. He was also an accomplished and well-respected officer in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), renowned for his intellect, skill at ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2004)James Morrison was Bishop of Antigonish from 1912-1950. He represented the last of the remote, powerful and austere 19[superscript th] century style Catholic bishops who were modeled in a time when their power went ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2002)This thesis examines Acadian community leadership over the span of the deportation era. While certain aspects of leadership have been discussed in previous studies, there has not been a serious review of leaders and their ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)The construction of the Mactaquac Dam on the St. John River in New Brunswick, Canada, during the late 1960s generated vocal and, at times, aggressive opposition. Dedicated to the preservation of the heritage, culture and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)This thesis explores the changing nature of medicine and health care in Newfoundland and Labrador during the early twentieth century. It does so by examining the early career of Dr. Cluny Macpherson, a physician from St. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2004)The role of the community newspaper in rural communities is crucial. It is an important vehicle by which people from various communities and with varied interests communicate with one another. It is the way communities ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)From 1749–1755, a migration of Acadians from Nova Scotia saw hundreds relocate to Île Saint-Jean and Île Royale. Among them, following the founding of Halifax, were the Acadians of Chezzetcook, Mirliguèche and those living ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2007)Part I of this study examines the practical and symbolic connotations according the term "frontier" over time. Opening with its limited military-territorial usage in colonial North America, I consider this within the context ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2005)"Highland Musician to Tourist Icon: The Changing Role of the Highland Piper in Nova Scotia Society, 1773-1973" is a study of the arrival and evolution of Highland bagpiping in Nova Scotia over a two hundred year period. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1989)Marking the period of time between childhood and marriage, a significant proportion of young women engaged themselves in factory work and at-home work for local industries as the twentieth century turned in Halifax. They ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)For Canada's post-secondary institutions, the First World War precipitated great change and upheaval. In Maritime Canada, the effects of the war were keenly felt at Acadia, Dalhousie, Mount Allison, and St. Francis Xavier ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2003)To date, there has not been extensive research done on the subject of Acadian music. Current scholarly efforts focus mainly on other aspects of the culture, such as history and demographics. Despite the lack of knowledge ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1993)This thesis examines the development of comprehensive forest management from the late eighteenth century to the Lands and Forests Act, S.N.S. 1926, c. 4, particularly concentrating on Crown lands management (or lack thereof). ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)Gordon Sidney Harrington served as Premier of Nova Scotia from 1930 to 1933. However, this investigation ends with his election to the Nova Scotia Legislature in 1925 and covers important but little known aspects of his ...
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