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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 ...
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 ...
"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” ...
Study of the strike at Canada Safeway by Local 175 of the United Food and Commercial Workers / by William P. Vinh-Doyle.
(2006)
"This study began in 2004, two years after the Canada Safeway Strike had concluded. At the time of the strike, I was completing my undergraduate degree in Education at Lakehead University. ... Two local newspapers. The ...
Reel history : film production at the Lakehead, 1911-1931
(2003)
During the early twentieth century the former cities of Fort William and Port Arthur were
home to a burgeoning film industry both regional and foreign in nature. Between 1911
and 1931 the twin cities enjoyed a romance ...
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 ...
Themes on Finnish settlement in the Thunder Bay area
(2004)
This migration has contributed to the Finnish population being found in many countries,
including Canada. It is this Finnish-Canadian population that is of interest here. Growing up in
the Thunder Bay area, within the ...
"Omens of good and evidences of evil" : gender and respectability in the Thunder Bay Sentinel, 1875-1895
(2001)
An exploration of late-Victorian ideals of masculinity and femininity, as well as masculine-feminine social and economic roles, through the pages of the Thunder Bay Sentinel (a weekly newspaper, Port Arthur, Ontario, ...
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 ...
Transformation of a union local : local 1075 International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW-CIO), 1952-1962
(2002)
What is there in common between socialism and labour in Canada? Or, phrased
differently, is there a history of socialism and the labour movement in Canada?
Historians and other academics have asked themselves these ...