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Changing medical understandings of cervical cancer and the development of screening programs in post-war Ontario
(2004)The history of cervical cancer has been a marginalised and neglected facet of medical history in Canada. My thesis examines changing understandings of the disease over the past 100 years, and, in particular, the rising ... -
Fighting an uphill battle : a history of public health reform in Fort William, 1892-1919
(2002)This thesis examines the public health problems faced by the city of Fort William from the 1890s to 1919. It deals specifically with the views of local health officials and the efforts that they undertook to remedy ... -
Municipal ownership town : the organization and regulation of urban services in Port Arthur, 1875-1914
(1994)Municipal enterprise was an innovation born of necessity in the hinterland regions of Europe and North America. In an era of rapid industrial and population growth, urban governments struggled during the late Victorian ... -
Race, Englishness and the media: depictions of urban rioting in England, 1980-81
(2014)"Race, Englishness and the Media is an examination of racialised depictions of the urban riots which broke out in England's major cities in the early 1980s. The analysis focuses on two major English newspapers, the Times ... -
Re-civilizing the land : conservation and postwar reconstruction in Ontario, 1939-1961
(2001)Includes such topics as land use, flooding, rural landscape, fishing, agriculture, family farms, watershed conservation, river basins, flood control, reforestation, woodlot management, underground water supplies, wildlife ...