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Alexander Morris and the Saulteaux : the context and making of treaty three, 1869-73
(1993)The primary purpose of this thesis is to explore and analyze the circumstances surrounding the Treaty Three agreement between the Canadian government and the Anishinabe in 1873. The agreement is important for a number ... -
British West Indians in Panama : an analysis of Linda Smart Chubb's memorandum in The Forgotten People / by Nicole Butzke.
(2008)"Of the many documents available to researchers, one report stands out as a unique first hand account of the history of the West Indian diaspora in Panama. In 1943 Linda Smart Chubb, a West Indian woman of British citizenship ... -
Canada's policy towards Communist China, 1949-1971
(2014-01-22)The decision of the Canadian government in 1970 to recognize the People’s Republic of China, which controlled Mainland China, as the official government of China, as opposed to the Republic of China, which only controlled ... -
Canada's position and participation in the early development of the International Monetary Fund, 1940-1943
(1985)This study focuses on Canada's involvement in the informal discussions that ultimately led to the creation of the International Monetary Fund, These discussions, which involved three main participants, Canada, the United ... -
The Canadian Forces and American military influence, 1963-1989
(2014-01-22)The 1963 to 1989 period witnessed a rapid change in Canadian defence matters. During this period the Canadian government forced the military away from its traditional ally the United Kingdom and moved it closer to the ... -
“The CCF is not a ‘Class’ Party”: labour, politics, and their unification at the Lakehead, 1944-1963
(2020)"The CCF is not a 'Class' Party”: Labour and Politics at the Lakehead, 1944-1963” is a study of the organized labour movement in the Lakehead from 1944 to 1963. This study analyzes the new sophistication of the organized ... -
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 ... -
The child, the family, and society in Ontario, 1850-1900, according to four educational journals
(1977)To understand the position of the child in Ontario between 1850 and 1900 is to know a great deal about the society in which he functioned. The status and role of the child was the most vital issue of the time. Social ... -
Civil defence in Canada 1939-1965 : garnering public support for war and nuclear weapons through the myth of protection
(1999)The Canadian federal government used a civil defence program to sustain public support for World War Two and afterwards for a defence policy based on nuclear weapons. The successful implementation of civil defence ... -
The Coming and Going of Eugenics in Alberta: A Discarded History, 1928 to 1972
(2016)Eugenics. The term brings to light a dark history. From 1928 to 1972, Canada, specifically Alberta, championed eugenic programs as a means to control and eliminate feeblemindedness within society. Influenced by the ... -
Community and conflict : a study of the working class and its relationships at the Canadian Lakehead, 1903-1913
(1974)Labour history is frequently equated with the internal workings of trade unions and radical parties in isolation from the society on which they are based. This paper treats these institutions as important, though not the ... -
Contribution to the study of Volkische Ideologie and Deutschtumsarbeit among the Germans in Canada during the inter-war period
(1997)Between World Wars I and II, the ethnic Germans in Canada strove to retain their language and culture. The impetus came on the heels of the Great War because lingering anti-German sentiment and assimilationist policies ... -
An examination of Protestant reaction toward the non-English-speaking immigrant in Port Arthur and Fort William, 1903-1914
(1976)Religious leaders helped to provide Canada with a significant tradition of English Canadian nationalistic thought that cannot be overlooked in any thorough examination of Canadian nationalism. Indeed, to a considerable ... -
Fictions of a settler-state: indigenous and iraqi peoples in canadian newspapers, 1990-2010
(2013-02-12)This thesis interrogates canadian newspaper coverage of Indigenous and Iraqi peoples from 1990 to 2010. I engage in discourse analysis of these primary source materials in order to extricate from them racial sentiments and ... -
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 ... -
"From moribund to mobilized" : the Lake Superior Regiment, 1920-1940
(1999)The intent of this work is to determine to what extent the Lake Superior Regiment of the Non-Permanent Active Militia1 fulfilled both its military and civic role in the Lakehead cities of Fort William and Port Arthur, ... -
Frontierism and metropolitanism in relation to development on the north shore of Lake Superior
(1993)The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the various influences within the metropolis-hinterland construct that were evident in the development of the area around Thunder Bay and along the north shore of Lake ...
