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Browsing Masters Theses by Thesis (Discipline) "History"
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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, 2023-12-06)The Valley of Mexico’s historical susceptibility to flooding underwent a significant environmental transformation during the Spanish colonization, when Spaniards, influenced by their Roman and Muslim heritage, built extensive ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)Reverend Dr. Thomas McCulloch is a well-documented figure in Nova Scotia’s educational historiography. Despite this, his political activism and Presbyterian background has been largely overlooked. This thesis offers a ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)Despite a Criminal Code ban on the publication of birth control information, private clinics and companies were able to sell and provide birth control products to the public between the 1920s and 1940s. As these were the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)Early in the twentieth century, therapeutic pessimism gripped psychiatry as chronic patients overcrowded mental asylums. Psychiatry grew isolated from the rest of medicine and many feared the specialty was medically ...
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(Halifax,N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1990)While it is important to understand that savings banks appeared fairly contemporaneously across British North America, the emergence of the institution in Nova Scotia is analysed in this paper by using the light shed from ...
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From swords to ploughshares : the context for Highland soldier settlement in Nova Scotia, 1710-1775 (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2003)This dissertation examines the circumstances whereby Scottish Highland soldiers became settlers in Nova Scotia prior to the American Revolution. It details the process, commencing in the late seventeenth century, of the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2001)Gridiron and Coal is a thesis that explores the nature of industrial and cultural production. For decades rugby football teams from the mining districts of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia played their game to the rhythm of their ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Within Canada, a variety of national colonial narratives are present which represent it as a welcoming, multicultural, and just country. These narratives do not include the histories of a variety of minority or marginalized ...
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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, 2010)Many historians of the Irish experience in Canada have argued that the Irish migrants in British North America originated primarily from Ulster, settled overwhelmingly in rural regions where they became pioneering farmers, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)The nineteenth century witnessed global migration of the Irish. The Irish settled in many places and one of the many destinations was Atlantic Canada. They played a pivotal role in informing the region’s economic, social, ...
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Joseph Howe and Edward Jordon : loyalty, press freedom, and reform in 1830s Nova Scotia and Jamaica (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-08-08)This is a comparative study of two journalists in Nova Scotia and Jamaica respectively in the 1830s. As editors of colonial newspapers, Joseph Howe (1804-73) and Edward Jordon (1800-69) were tried for publishing seditious ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)John Horace Dickey was a fourth generation Haligonian lawyer who, after serving on the domestic front with the Canadian Army travelled to Japan as a part of the Canadian War Crimes Liaison Detachment - Far East. Dickey was ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)Editor Amelia Bloomer created controversy through her nineteenth century periodical—The Lily—which started out as a temperance journal but quickly came to include women’s rights issues. Her influence on the first women’s ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)In 1984, Vietnam War veteran John Devitt and volunteers from the Vietnam Combat Veterans Ltd. of San Jose, California, debuted a half-size traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Named “the Moving Wall,” the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)The Second World War turned Halifax, a small city that is the capital of Nova Scotia, into an overcrowded port city at the edge of the Canadian Home Front. Due to the large transient population in the city at the time, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1994)This thesis focuses on the process of the industrialization in the Maritimes through an analysis of the sugar refining industry. It looks at three periods in which Maritime entrepreneurs were faced with dramatic economic ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)In Japanese-American relations, much historical research has been undertaken on factors perceived to have caused the Pacific War. These include studies on the collapse of Japanese interwar democracy, treatments of American ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)This thesis examines Mi’kmaw-British relations in regards to agricultural policies in colonial Nova Scotia in the nineteenth century. Beginning in the early eighteenth century, British colonizers in Nova Scotia, a portion ...
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