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Browsing Theses & Dissertations by Thesis (Discipline) "Atlantic Canada Studies Program"
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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, 2002)This thesis critically examines ArchWay--Nova Scotia's Database of Archival Descriptions, giving reasons for its creation and describing the development of the database with illustrations of how the database can be used ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2002)This thesis explores, from the growers' perspective, perceptions of success in individual aquaculture ventures and the aquaculture industry in Nova Scotia through the use of four main sources--a review of published information ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1987)This work examines the history of occupational health and safety in the offshore fishing industry in Nova Scotia from 1915 to 1985. The year 1915 is significant as the year in which the second Workmen's Compensation Act ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1991)This thesis explores the meaning of the term "labour aristocracy" and its development in Britain and Canada. The limited use of the term in Canadian historiography is discussed and its validity in a Canadian context is ...
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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, 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, 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, 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, 1996)This thesis explores the foundational issues for creating an alternative or complementary science curriculum for Mi'kmaw children in the elementary school grades of Nova Scotia. The extensive and rich body of knowledge ...
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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, 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)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, 1995)Although largely forgotten by today's secular world, half a century ago the Prince Edward Island born cardinal, James McGuigan, was perhaps the best known Catholic churchman in Canada. A brilliant administrator, he was ...
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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, 1992)This thesis is a study of the rural development association movement in Newfoundland and Labrador from its roots in the late 1960's through to the late 1980's. To provide an overall context it first examines the patterns ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1994)From its beginnings in early nineteenth century Europe the Co-operative Movement has grown into the world's largest social movement. It represents a middle way between the extremes of control by the State and by big business. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1995)The main thrust of this thesis is to argue for the need for coastal community based resource management. While government has been developing "action" oriented programs such as the Atlantic Coastal Action Program (ACAP), ...
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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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