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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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Headlocks at the Lakehead : wrestling in Fort William and Port Arthur, 1913-1933 / by Charles Nathan Hatton.
(2007)"In the Northern Ontario communities o f Fort William and Port Arthur, collectively known as the Lakehead, wrestling emerged as one of the most popular spectator sports in the region by 1913 and remained so for the next ... -
Health care in 19th century Upper Canada/Ontario : adaptation of a British model
(1989)After having completed relevant coursework in health care in Britain and while researching late 19th century health care in Port Arthur, I became fascinated by the surprisingly advanced level of such services in Port ... -
Hell with the future, let's get on with the past" : rivalry and revitalization in the Lakehead's central business districts, 1947-1980 / by John A. MacPhail.
(2000)“Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?” asked Alice. “That depends a great deal on where you want to get to,” said the cat. Lewis Carroll’s, Alice in Wonderland, 1865. Victoriaville Centre was ... -
Hemlines and hairdos : body management for the feminine ideal in the Canadian Women's Army Corps
(1999)The onslaught of World War II (WWII) brought with it an unprecedented mobilization of the female population in both Allied and Axis countries, as well as a rapid "masculinizatlon " of women's roles. In the absence of ... -
"I was a good girl when he married me" : issues of respectability and gender in a Northern Ontario murder trial / by Cheryl Elizabeth Shaw.
(2007)At the heart of this thesis is a trial, R. v. Clara Irene St. Cyr. In 1948 Clara was a thirty-two year old mother of six. Bom in St. Lucie, Quebec but raised in Gogama, Ontario, she was eighteen when she met Jerome “Jerry” ...
