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Browsing Masters Theses by Author "Howell, Colin D., 1944-"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1986)This paper examines the first sixty years of Colchester County’s experience within the Canadian Confederation. This paper is organized into five separate sections which examine the economic, political and social responses ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)In his 1911 novel The Abysmal Brute, Jack London portrayed boxing as a corrupt sport, lacking honest competition. Fights were fixed, gambling was endemic and audiences were robbed of 'on-the-level' sport. A decade ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1997)"Black Protest Tradition in Nova Scotia" explores the black community's history of protest in Nova Scotia from the arrival of the Black Loyalists to the destruction of Africville. While the white community in Nova Scotia ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1998)Dr. Arthur Samuel Kendall was born in Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia on 25 March 1861 when Sydney was a tranquil market centre and garrison town built on the south-east shore of Sydney harbour. He lived most of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2000)Research concerning Canadian urban reform in the early 20th century has generally neglected to include the activities in the City of Halifax. While cities such as Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg were thought to have been ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1986)Female reformers of Victorian Nova Scotia played a critical role in interpreting and shaping both their world and their womanhood. As industrialization transformed the modern capitalist order, Maritime women in the last ...
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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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(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, 1994)This thesis will present an historical perspective on the history of Halifax Shipyards and attempt to demonstrate its social and economic importance to Halifax and the Province of Nova Scotia. Halifax Shipyards Limited was ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1991)This thesis examines the history of medical care and the development of the health care delivery system among the Micmac in Nova Scotia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It examines the relationship of the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1999)War provides a striking example of gender differentiation, yet, because of the unusual demands in times of war, breakdowns in traditional divisions of labour occur. Historians debate how and whether war has been a springboard ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1991)Leisure as contested terrain in late nineteenth century Halifax contends that during this era the birth, development, and shaping of various leisure pursuits involved power struggles between loosely defined groups at all ...
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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, 1996)This thesis is an examination of hockey in the Maritimes during the pre-World War One era. The emphasis of this thesis is on the class, gender, and racial relationships which influenced the nature of hockey and Maritime ...
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Sailors ashore : a comparative analysis of wartime recreation and leisure in Halifax and St. John's (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2003)The Second World War was a time of great upheaval in Canada, with thousands of people relocated, soldiers going overseas and the nation mobilizing for the war effort. For the people of Halifax and St. John's the impact of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1992)This thesis examines scheduled motorcoach service in Nova Scotia between the years 1922-1990 and the effect of government regulation on the industry. It examines the relationship between the government as a policy maker ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1997)"She's No Lady" explores the complex relationship between gender identity and work culture as experienced by women taxi drivers in Halifax. Working in a traditionally male industry, women taxi drivers often attract the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2006)Soccer is widely referred to as the "world's game" yet it is hardly ever referred to as Nova Scotia's game of choice, even though it is currently one of the most widely played sports in the province. Still, soccer has come ...
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Social anchors of community : church, rink and school in post war Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2001)Musquodoboit Harbour is a small community on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia. The main purpose of this thesis is to show the ways in which the First United Church of Musquodoboit Harbour, the Eastern Shore District High ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2001)"The Canso Causeway: Regionalism, Reconstruction, Representations, and Results" examines the history, construction and legacy of the Canso Causeway, the permanent link connecting mainland Nova Scotia to Cape Breton Island. ...
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