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Browsing Masters Theses by Author "Twohig, Peter"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)Since European colonization salt marshes have been utilized for agricultural purposes, and have played a prominent role in the development of Nova Scotia's social, cultural, economic, and environmental history. While ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)Parlour Culture is considered for its long duration and social impact on both sides of the Atlantic, but my research focus culminates with the expression of that culture in Queens County, Nova Scotia from the late 18th ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2006)This research explores the Innu experience of Type II diabetes in Sheshatshiu, Labrador. The unique political history and social structure of the Sheshatshiu Innu is linked to the historic and current provision of health ...
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(2014)Silver Sands Beach, in Cow Bay, Nova Scotia, has been subject to a polarized history. Beginning in the mid-1800s, it enjoyed local and non-local fame, alike, as an immensely popular summer destination. However, in the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)The Halifax Gazette , the first newspaper published in what would become Canada, has been dismissed the "timid" product of a "docile" printer dependant on government patronage. This study explores the relationship between ...
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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, 2017)In 1963, Nova Scotia began a complicated history with formalised citizen engagement practices as a vehicle to ensure citizen input into the policy making process. From Voluntary Economic Planning to Voluntary Planning, ...
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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, 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, 2000)This thesis takes a strategic look at the evolution of the compensation system in Nova Scotia placing contemporary policy debates in their historical context. Where did the system come from? How and why has it evolved? The ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)In 1964, when Graham Creighton High School in Cherry Brook, Nova Scotia opened its doors for integration, many of its feeder communities were relatively rural and isolated. Racial tension emerged, creating a legacy of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)This thesis explores the reality of maternal health services facing pregnant women in Uganda. It aims to understand the variety of issues surrounding women's utilization of skilled birth attendants in a weak and underfunded ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)The post-war period saw tremendous medical and technological advancements with regard to disability in Canada. With these advancements, persons with disabilities began to express a desire for greater community access, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022)The Misty Moon Show Bar was an iconic nightclub in Halifax that was open 1969-1994 and lives on in infamy, tied to a cultural identity of Halifax as a violent city of many bars. Interviews were undertaken with 13 narrators ...
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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, 2020)This thesis is a political history of the development of the Department of Indian Affairs (DIA) in Nova Scotia. Rather than position assimilation as the central objective of the DIA, this research proposes that protecting ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2004)This thesis investigates the way in which perceptions of the natural world have evolved in Maritime literature from the early Nineteenth Century to the present. While it has been commonplace in the critical tradition for ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore and describe the lived experiences of three international male student-athletes. The setting was Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. All the participants ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2007)Emma Maitland Stirling, if she is known at all in Nova Scotia, is known for her child migration work in the province between 1886 and 1895. Yet, her last years here have not been fully explored and her work with the Maritime ...
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