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Gilpin, John Frederick. "The Canadian Agency and British investment in western Canadian land 1905-1915." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/35550.
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The Canadian Agency was established in 1906 by Arthur Morton Grenfell for the purpose of organizing British capital for investment in Canada. The role of this agency was to promote Canadian interests in London, create a market for Canadian shares and bring quality Canadian stocks to this market to ensure its proper operation. The creation of the Canadian Agency took place at an opportune moment to reap the potential benefits of handling the increased capital flow from Britain to Canada since British interest in investing in Canada and the capital needs of the Canadian economy were starting to rise dramatically because of railway construction, immigration, urbanization, consolidation within various industries and the anxieties of the British aristocracy over the economic policies of Lloyd George. The timing of the creation of the Canadian Agency does not, however, indicate that Arthur Grenfell recognized this trend and acted upon this knowledge accordingly. The Canadian Agency's creation derived from more personal reasons which included the Fourth Earl Grey's appointment to the office of Governor-General of Canada which served as the catalyst for Arthur Grenfell to create this family and class based investment group. In the context of the relationship between Britain and Canada, the collapse of the Canadian Agency represents a lost opportunity to establish a stronger economic relationship between the two countries and provides a perfect example for the critics of Canadian investment which had predicted a disastrous end to the Canadian boom.
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McDonald, Shirley Ann. "The Sheppard journals, British cowboys in the Canadian west." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ65043.pdf.
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Sugars, Cynthia Conchita 1963. "The uncompromised New World : Canadian literature and the British imaginary." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35630.
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This thesis explores contemporary (post-1980) British constructions of Canada or "Canadianness" as these have been conceived through the reading and reception of English-Canadian literary texts in Britain. I am arguing that in recent years Canada has been construed in Britain as an ideal, and furthermore, that this idealization has taken place in response to a perceived cultural and socio-economic malaise within contemporary British society. I use a combined postcolonial and object-relations approach to discuss the psychic investment involved in this construction of Canada as a post-imperial role model. These readers engage with the Canadian object as a sort of phantasy space, projecting onto Canada a self-image which expresses the British desire for postcolonial diversity. Canada thereby enables the dodging of the quagmires of imperiled national identity (and personal subjectivity), for its diffuse and decentralized makeup is balanced by an essentialized notion of cultural and national uniqueness. Throughout I take issue with the ways Canada tends to get celebrated in these writings as a postmodern ideal of unproblematized pluralism and endless diffusion, knowable by the sheer extent to which it seems to defy collective identity. These celebrations of Canada as a new (postmodern) Eden succeed only in emptying the Canadian domain of anything remotely contestatory or political. Indeed, this vision of Canada utilizes a limited version of postmodernism as an idealistic play of pluralities without any sense of accompanying political strife or contradiction.
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Sugars, Cynthia Conchita. "The uncompromised New World, Canadian literature and the British imaginary." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0016/NQ44602.pdf.
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Rowsell, Jennifer. "Publishing practices in printed education : British and Canadian perspectives on educational publishing." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2001. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/publishing-practices-in-printed-education--british-and-canadian-perspectives-on-educational-publishing(0dacc62a-918f-4aa1-885c-8132c20badf4).html.
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Starkman, Akivah L. "The use of labour replacement in industrial disputes : a British - Canadian comparison." Thesis, University of Kent, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332578.
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Norton, Wayne R. "The Imperial Colonisation Board : British administration on the Canadian prairies, 1888-1909." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28191.
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For twenty years after 1888, the British Government conducted an experiment in colonisation on the Canadian prairies. Hoping to avoid a radical redistribution of land to alleviate distress and disorder in Scotland's Western Islands, the Salisbury Government attempted an emigrationist policy. In 1888 it authorised the expenditure of public funds to establish colonies of Highlanders in Manitoba and Assiniboia.
Adverse economic and climatic conditions combined with inadequate planning to severely hamper the progress of the settlements. Problems associated with administration from London compounded existing difficulties. By 1893, a Liberal administration less inclined to favour state-aided emigration abandoned all commitments to such schemes on the basis of the experience of the struggling Highland settlements.
The Canadian Government was unable to adopt a consistent policy toward the British scheme. The Department of the Interior was frequently at variance with the Office of the Canadian High Commissioner in London. The settlements received much publicity and required much administrative attention before the British Government, with financial integrity, was able to conclude the settlement scheme in 1908.
It is argued that the experience of the Canadian settlements played a far larger role in determining British policy toward state-aided colonisation than has previously been acknowledged. It is maintained that the publicised difficulties of the settlements contributed to the Canadian perception that British agriculturalists made unsatisfactory settlers and to the subsequent policy preference for continental European emigrants. It is suggested that the episode stands in sharp contrast to the orthodox view of the Scottish experience in Canadian historical writingArts, Faculty of
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Uberoi, Varun. "Multicultural nation-building : a Canadian way to foster unity amongst British citizens." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670077.
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Garner, Christopher. "Managing behaviour : intra-party dissent in the British and Canadian Houses of Commons." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432101.
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Bowen, Deborah. "Mimesis, magic, manipulation: A study of the photograph in contemporary British and Canadian novels." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6007.
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The photograph is of interest to the writer because it is uniquely a product both of the realm of objective, physical reality and of the realm of artifice. Its ambiguous status as the physical emanation of a past referent endows it with an uneasy authority. It appears to offer assurances of identity and clarity; at the same time, it undermines the attempt to control experience by demonstrating that to freeze time and space is to render them obsolete. Thus the photograph can be seen as a metaphor for the life-giving and death-dealing enterprise of writing fictions. Moreover, because the photograph is a reflection of the past, private or public, a comparison of the use made of photographic images in the fictions of two different cultures, one older, one newer, may reveal differences in aesthetic between those two cultures. A theoretical dialectic for exploring the use made of the photograph in contemporary British and Canadian fiction can be constructed by comparing the thesis of Susan Sontag's On Photography (1977) with that of Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida (1980). Sontag is concerned with the camera as an instrument of power which victimizes its subjects; she sees the text as necessary to contextualize the image according to its function in time. Barthes understands the photograph's fragmentariness as potentially revelatory, and text as parasitic upon image. Where the Sontagian model emphasizes narrative contextualization and the photographer/writer as wielder of power, the Barthean model emphasizes a vertical hermeneutic of epiphanies and the spectator/reader as creator of meaning. A look at several contemporary British novelists who use photographic imagery (Julian Barnes, Graham Swift, Martin Amis, Fay Weldon, Penelope Lively, Anita Brookner, Timothy Mo, Salman Rushdie) suggests that these writers tend towards an ironical distancing of the photography, which is seen as parodic of traditional mimesis. Such novelists thus ascribe to and yet undermine Sontag's concern with narrative control. A number of contemporary Canadian writers (for instance, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Margaret Laurence, Timothy Findley, Norman Levine, Diane Schoemperlen, Janette Turner Hospital, Michael Ondaatje) find within the photograph a representational magic that transcends boundaries of spatial and temporal logic. They share Barthes' belief in the intransigent value of appearances. An examination of these different writers' use of the photographic image thus provides a commentary upon their various understandings of the real, the fictive, and the relationship between the two.
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Sanyshyn, James Evan. "The role of Canadian music in the preparation of music specialists in British Columbia /." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30213.
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This study examined the role Canadian music plays in the preparation of secondary school music specialists in British Columbia. Programme content was explored through an analysis of course calendars, a review of student, faculty and guest recital repertoire, and interviews with post-secondary instructors and senior music education students. Fourteen music specialists completed a checklist in order to determine what Canadian materials are being used in the classroom. Follow-up interviews were conducted with three teachers to further explore the selection of teaching materials. An official from a local school board and a participant in the development of music curriculum documents were also interviewed to ascertain the value placed on Canadian music by local school boards and the Ministry of Education. Findings identified a need for increased Canadian content in all facets of post-secondary teacher training in order to expose secondary music specialists to available Canadian resources. Implications for further research are discussed.
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Rourke, Sarah Nicole. "Canadian clinical nurse specialists : understanding their role in policy within a British Columbian context." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43268.
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Clinical Nurses Specialists (CNSs) are in a unique position to respond to the evolution of health care delivery for specialized populations with complex health care needs. Specifically, it has been suggested that CNSs engage with policy at different levels of health care as one way of advancing the nursing profession, improving patient outcomes, and contributing to the provision of effective, sustainable health care. Nevertheless, little is known in regards to CNSs’ experience of policy within their practice, particularly within a Canadian context. Therefore the purpose of this qualitative research study was to explore CNSs’ experience of policy at the clinical, institutional and system levels of the health care system, to further enhance our understanding of CNSs’ practice in Canada, and more specifically British Columbia. Interpretive description was used as the research method for this study. 11 semi-structured interviews were conducted. Through an inductive approach to data analysis involving constant comparison four major themes emerged representing the common reality of the participant’s experience: 1) The Perplexities of Policy; 2) CNSs and Policy: A Perfect Match; 3) CNSs’ Influence: Policy as a Vehicle; and 4) Mechanisms that Challenge and Facilitate CNSs’ Policy Work. Findings of this study confirm and extend what is already known about CNSs’ involvement in policy within a Canadian context. These findings have potential application to practice, education, research and more broadly, the health care system.
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Sanyshyn, James Evan. "The role of Canadian music in the preparation of music specialists in British Columbia." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0034/MQ64189.pdf.
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Brothman, Brien. "Surveying imperialism : the English-Canadian press and British imperial conduct in Africa 1880-1885." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/29440.
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Leung, Parie Pui Yee. "Yellow Earth and Future Generation : correlations in British East Asian and Asian Canadian drama." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/55084.
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Since 1995 and 2002, London’s Yellow Earth Theatre (YET) and Toronto’s fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company have been producing work under the identity labels of “British East Asian theatre” and “Asian Canadian theatre” respectively. Emerging out of different socio-cultural contexts, the companies have nonetheless produced plays that address similar themes around mixed-race identities, immigration, and the experiences of first- and second-generation East Asians living in Britain and Canada. Despite burgeoning research on Asian Canadian theatre and British Chinese culture—developments that echo the pioneering directions of Asian American theatre scholarship—studies have tended to focus exclusively on cultural work produced by East Asian artists within the national boundaries of America, Canada and Australia. Inspired by two emotionally charged events that I attended in Toronto and in London that drew attention to the parallels between ethno-national theatre produced in different western cultures, this thesis investigates the background, mandates, and key works of two leading theatre companies in order to compare their dramatic strategies. Using data from published and unpublished scripts, published reviews and interviews, archival video where available, and the companies’ press and public material through their websites, this thesis argues that comparing theatre companies across ethno-national contexts can reveal insights about how familiar dramatic strategies such as the absurd, fantastical, spectral, and audience interaction, have additional import in identity-centred work.Arts, Faculty of
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Lechat, Karl Dominique. "Séquestration géologique du CO₂ par carbonatation minérale dans les résidus miniers." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/26930.
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La carbonatation minérale dans les résidus miniers est un moyen sûr et permanent de séquestrer le CO2 atmosphérique. C’est un processus naturel et passif qui ne nécessite aucun traitement particulier et donc avantageux d’un point de vue économique. Bien que la quantité de CO2 qu’il soit possible de séquestrer selon ce processus est faible à l’échelle globale, dans le cadre d’un marché du carbone, les entreprises minières pourraient obtenir des crédits et ainsi revaloriser leurs résidus. À l’heure actuelle, il y a peu d’informations pour quantifier le potentiel de séquestration du CO2 de façon naturelle et passive dans les piles de résidus miniers. Il est donc nécessaire d’étudier le phénomène pour comprendre comment évolue la réaction à travers le temps et estimer la quantité de CO2 qui peut être séquestrée naturellement dans les piles de résidus. Plusieurs travaux de recherche se sont intéressés aux résidus miniers de Thetford Mines (Québec, Canada), avec une approche principalement expérimentale en laboratoire. Ces travaux ont permis d’améliorer la compréhension du processus de carbonatation, mais ils nécessitent une validation à plus grande échelle sous des conditions atmosphériques réelles. L’objectif général de cette étude est de quantifier le processus de carbonatation minérale des résidus miniers sous des conditions naturelles, afin d’estimer la quantité de CO2 pouvant être piégée par ce processus. La méthodologie utilisée repose sur la construction de deux parcelles expérimentales de résidus miniers situées dans l’enceinte de la mine Black Lake (Thetford Mines). Les résidus miniers sont principalement constitués de grains et de fibres de chrysotile et lizardite mal triés, avec de petites quantités d’antigorite, de brucite et de magnétite. Des observations spatiales et temporelles ont été effectuées dans les parcelles concernant la composition et la pression des gaz, la température des résidus, la teneur en eau volumique, la composition minérale des résidus ainsi que la chimie de l’eau des précipitations et des lixiviats provenant des parcelles. Ces travaux ont permis d’observer un appauvrissement notable du CO2 dans les gaz des parcelles (< 50 ppm) ainsi que la précipitation d’hydromagnésite dans les résidus, ce qui suggère que la carbonatation minérale naturelle et passive est un processus potentiellement important dans les résidus miniers. Après 4 ans d’observations, le taux de séquestration du CO2 dans les parcelles expérimentales a été estimé entre 3,5 et 4 kg/m3/an. Ces observations ont permis de développer un modèle conceptuel de la carbonatation minérale naturelle et passive dans les parcelles expérimentales. Dans ce modèle conceptuel, le CO2 atmosphérique (~ 400 ppm) se dissout dans l'eau hygroscopique contenue dans les parcelles, où l'altération des silicates de magnésium forme des carbonates de magnésium. La saturation en eau dans les cellules est relativement stable dans le temps et varie entre 0,4 et 0,65, ce qui est plus élevé que les valeurs de saturation optimales proposées dans la littérature, réduisant ainsi le transport de CO2 dans la zone non saturée. Les concentrations de CO2 en phase gazeuse, ainsi que des mesures de la vitesse d'écoulement du gaz dans les cellules suggèrent que la réaction est plus active près de la surface et que la diffusion du CO2 est le mécanisme de transport dominant dans les résidus. Un modèle numérique a été utilisé pour simuler ces processus couplés et valider le modèle conceptuel avec les observations de terrain. Le modèle de transport réactif multiphase et multicomposant MIN3P a été utilisé pour réaliser des simulations en 1D qui comprennent l'infiltration d'eau à travers le milieu partiellement saturé, la diffusion du gaz, et le transport de masse réactif par advection et dispersion. Même si les écoulements et le contenu du lixivat simulés sont assez proches des observations de terrain, le taux de séquestration simulé est 22 fois plus faible que celui mesuré. Dans les simulations, les carbonates précipitent principalement dans la partie supérieure de la parcelle, près de la surface, alors qu’ils ont été observés dans toute la parcelle. Cette différence importante pourrait être expliquée par un apport insuffisant de CO2 dans la parcelle, qui serait le facteur limitant la carbonatation. En effet, l’advection des gaz n’a pas été considérée dans les simulations et seule la diffusion moléculaire a été simulée. En effet, la mobilité des gaz engendrée par les fluctuations de pression barométrique et l’infiltration de l’eau, ainsi que l’effet du vent doivent jouer un rôle conséquent pour alimenter les parcelles en CO2.Mineral carbonation in ultramafic mining wastes is a safe and permanent way to sequester atmospheric CO2. This process can occur naturally and passively, and does not require special treatment, which is interesting from an economical point of view. In the context of a carbon market, mining companies could obtain carbon credits and profit financially and environmentally from their residues. However, there is currently insufficient information to accurately assess the potential for natural and passive CO2 sequestration in mining waste piles. It is therefore necessary to study the phenomenon to understand how the reaction evolves over time and estimate the amount of CO2 that can be naturally sequestered in these structures. Several research studies have focused on the ultramafic milling wastes at Thetford Mines (Quebec, Canada), and have particularly focused on laboratory experiments. The results have improved our understanding of the mineral carbonation process in milling waste, but they need to be tested at larger scales and under real atmospheric conditions. The general objective of this study is to quantify the mineral carbonation process in mining waste under natural conditions, and to estimate the amount of CO2 that can be trapped by this process. The methodology is based on the construction of two experimental cells of milling waste located at the Black Lake mine (Thetford Mines). The magnesium-rich milling wastes mainly consist of poorly sorted grains and fibers of lizardite and chrysotile, with smaller amounts of antigorite, brucite and magnetite. Spatial and temporal observations were made in the cells, including measurements of the composition and pressure of gas, soil temperature, volumetric water content, waste mineralogy as well as water chemistry of rain and of the cell leachate. The observations showed evidence of a significant depletion of CO2 gas concentrations (< 50 ppm) and precipitation of hydromagnesite in the milling waste, suggesting that natural and passive mineral carbonation is a potentially important process in milling wastes. After four years of observations, the CO2 sequestration rates in the experimental cells were estimated at between 3.5 and 4 kg/m3/year. These observations have led to the development of a conceptual model of natural and passive mineral carbonation at the cell scale. In this conceptual model, atmospheric CO2 (~ 400 ppm) dissolves in the hygroscopic water contained in the cells where the weathering of magnesium silicates forms magnesium carbonates. Water saturation in the cells was relatively stable over time and varied between 0.4 and 0.65, which is higher than optimal saturation values proposed in the literature, reducing CO2 transport in the unsaturated zone. Gas-phase CO2 concentrations along with gas flow rate measurements in the cells suggest that the reaction is most active close to the surface and that diffusion of CO2 is the dominant transport mechanism in the wastes. Although the carbonation reaction is exothermic, no evidence of thermal convection has been observed in the experimental cells. A numerical model was used to simulate the identified coupled processes and to validate the conceptual model with field observations. The numerical model MIN3P, for multiphase and multi-component reactive transport problems, was used to complete 1D simulations which included water infiltration through the partially-saturated column, gas diffusion, and advective-dispersive reactive mass transport. Although the calibrated moisture content and leachate composition were quite close to field observations, the simulated sequestration rate is 22 times lower than the measured rate. The simulation results also suggested that carbonates would precipitate mainly near the surface whereas field observations suggest that mineral carbonation had occurred throughout the vertical profile. This significant difference could be explained by an insufficient supply of CO2 in the simulated cells, which is the limiting factor for mineral carbonation, suggesting that gas advection, which was not considered in the simulations, could have been important. It is concluded that gas mobility generated by barometric pressure fluctuations and water infiltration, as well as wind effects, likely played a significant role for CO2 supply within the cells and should be considered in future simulations.
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Hewitt, Haley A. "The Canadian News is Unimportant| The Anomaly of Canada in the British Empire, 1860-1867." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10817072.
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?The Canadian News is Unimportant? analyzes the anomaly of Canada in the British Empire in the nineteenth century by seeking to understand the role that Canada played in the production of empire abroad and understanding of empire in the metropole. The study is situated between the periods of the American Civil and the Canadian confederation movement and explores metropolitan newspapers and parliamentary debates to develop the themes of imagined identities, paternalistic language, and rhetoric of empire. Such explorations illustrate just how difficult it would become for the British metropole to reconcile their constructed image of a dependent and child-like colony with the reality of increasing Canadian autonomy. This study expands imperial historiography by showing just how important the Canadian news was in the constructions of the British empire in the nineteenth century.
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McManus, Mary Kathleen. "The end of imperial diplomatic unity, 1919-1928 : Anglo-Canadian relations from the British perspective." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1992. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1267/.
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During the first decade after the Great War, the relationship between Great Britain and Canada underwent profound changes: these years were significant in the transition of the British Empire to Commonwealth. One of these changes included Canada's severance from formal imperial diplomatic unity. From 1919 to 1928, Canada established the same complete control over its external affairs which it already enjoyed in its domestic affairs. Canada's break from imperial foreign policy was a major factor in Canada's evolution from subordinate status with respect to Britain to one of equality. As the senior Dominion, the action Canada took against Britain, by confronting Britain repeatedly in matters of foreign policy, made Canada a leader in the transition to Commonwealth. Events leading to Canada's legal disassociation from imperial foreign policy began with Resolution IX of the Imperial War Conference of 1917. Although recognition of changes in the imperial relationship came with the Balfour Declaration of 1926, it was the appointment of the first British High Commissioner to Ottawa in 1928 which confirmed Britain's participation in a new relationship with Canada. Resolution IX acknowledged that circumstances had changed in British-Dominion relations. The struggles over imperial foreign policy between 1919 and 1928 assisted in establishing the principle of equal status between Britain and the Dominions. These conflicts contributed to defining the evolution of the Anglo-Canadian relationship in its formal, legal sense. The Canadian involvement in these encounters has received a great deal of attention whereas the same cannot be said of the British side. Most historical writings have assumed that the reactions of Britain were consistently conservative and passive. The common supposition was that Britain reacted only when pressured by Canada. By reviewing these confrontations from the British perspective, this study will examine the attitudes of and the interaction among the British Cabinet, the Foreign and Colonial Offices in formulating a policy toward Canada in this era, and demonstrate that the transition to Commonwealth was neither inevitable nor smooth.
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Leblanc, Jonathan. "Analyse du potentiel tsunamigénique des glissements de terrain possibles dans une ancienne mine à ciel ouvert à Black Lake, Québec." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/34413.
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Dans le cadre d’un mandat de recherche confié à l’Université Laval par le Ministère des Transports du Québec et consistant à la réalisation d’une analyse initiale des mouvements de terrain liés à l’exploitation minière et leurs conséquences possibles sur les infrastructures routières et urbaines à Black Lake, ce projet de maîtrise a pour but d’analyser le potentiel tsunamigénique des glissements de terrain actifs sur la paroi est de la mine abandonnée LAB d’Amiante du Canada suite au remplissage actuellement en cours de la fosse. Pour ce faire, le logiciel GeoClaw, basé sur le système d’équations de Barré de Saint-Venant, a été utilisé afin de modéliser numériquement la formation d’un tsunami. Étant donné que la possibilité qu’un tsunami soit généré à Black Lake ne pourrait se réaliser que dans plusieurs années, le modèle utilisé a été tout d’abord validé en l’utilisant pour un cas québécois récent survenu en 2014 au Lac-des-Seize-Îles. La génération d’un tsunami est non seulement fonction du plan d’eau dans lequel il peut se produire, mais aussi du volume impliqué et de la vitesse de déplacement d’une masse en mouvement. Ces paramètres ont donc été préalablement déterminés avant de procéder à l’analyse du potentiel tsunamigénique des divers scénarios possibles le long de la paroi est de la mine. Étant donné les diverses incertitudes inhérentes à une telle analyse prospective, la modélisation numérique de la génération, de la propagation et de l’inondation d’un tsunami a été réalisée par une approche paramétrique, en utilisant les différents scénarios établis par les analyses de stabilité et de la cinématique ainsi qu’un modèle numérique de terrain obtenu à partir de plusieurs levés LiDAR en tant que paramètres d’entrée. De plus, l’effet du remplissage graduel de la fosse, provoqué par l’arrêt des opérations d’exploitation et de pompage, a aussi été évalué pour les divers scénarios. Les travaux ont permis d’identifier, si tel est le cas, le niveau minimal requis dans la fosse pour qu’il y ait atteinte des différentes infrastructures durant l’inondation, et d’ainsi estimer, pour chacun des scénarios, les conséquences potentielles advenant l’accélération soudaine d’un glissement de terrain et la formation d’un tsunami. Les principaux résultats démontrent que si un glissement de terrain avait réellement à se produire, trois scénarios sont potentiellement plus problématiques en termes de conséquences liées à l’inondation des différentes infrastructures. L’infrastructure routière principale du secteur (c.-à-d. la Route 112) serait potentiellement affectée, avec une gravité variable en fonction du niveau d’eau du lac et de la vitesse de mobilisation des glissements de terrain, alors que les infrastructures urbaines du secteur de Black Lake seraient toujours épargnées. Finalement, cette analyse aura aussi démontré l’intérêt d’étendre l’application de cette méthode à d’autres cas récents et historiques au Québec.As part of a research project entrusted by the Quebec Ministry of Transports consisting in a preliminary analysis of landslides induced by the mining operations and their potential consequences on the road and urban infrastructures of Black Lake, this Master’s project analyses the tsunamigenic potential of the east wall landslides of the abandoned mine LAB d’Amiante du Canada following the eventual reflooding of the open pit. In order to achieve this, the GeoClaw software, based on the Barré-de-Saint-Venant shallow water equations, has been used to model the tsunami formation. Given the fact that a landslide-generated tsunami could only happen in several years in Black Lake, the model was first validated by applying it to a recent case that occurred in 2014 at Lac-des-Seize-Îles in Quebec. Tsunami generation is not only a function of the affected water basin, but also of the volume and the displacement velocity of the mobilised mass. These parameters have been pre-determined before proceeding with the tsunamigenic potential analysis of possible landslides along the east wall. Given the inherent uncertainties associated with this kind of prospective analysis, the generation, propagation and flood modeling has been completed with a parametric approach, using scenarios established from a stability and kinetic analysis , and using a digital elevation model built from LiDAR surveys as input parameters. Furthermore, the effect of pit flooding induced by the mine shutdown has also been evaluated for the landslide scenarios. This work allowed identifying the minimal water level required in the open pit at which the road and urban infrastructures would be affected by the inundation and thus allowed estimating the potential consequences if a sudden acceleration of the landslide occurs and if a tsunami is generated. The main results show that if a landslide were to occur, three different landslide scenarios would be potentially more problematic in terms of inundation of the infrastructures. The main road infrastructure (i. e. Highway 112) would be potentially affected, with varying severity depending on the water level of the lake and the mobilization velocities of the landslides, while the urban infrastructure located in the Black Lake area would remain unaffected. Finally, this analysis has demonstrated the interest to extend the application of this method to other recent and historic landslide-induced tsunami cases in Quebec.
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Coughlin, Michael G. "Colonial Catholicism in British North America: American and Canadian Catholic Identities in the Age of Revolution." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108063.
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Thesis advisor: André BrouilletteThesis advisor: Maura Jane Farrelly
The purpose of this thesis is to better understand American colonial Catholicism through a comparative study of it with Catholicism in colonial Canada, both before and after the British defeat of the French in 1759, in the period of the American Revolution. Despite a shared faith, ecclesiastical leaders in Canada were wary of the revolutionary spirit and movement in the American colonies, participated in by American Catholics, and urged loyalty to the British crown. The central question of the study is as follows: why did the two groups, American Catholics (the Maryland Tradition) and Canadian Catholics (the Quebec Tradition), react so differently to British colonial rule in the mid eighteenth-century? Developing an understanding of the religious identities of American and Canadian Catholics and their interaction during the period will help shed light on their different approaches to political ideals of the Enlightenment and their Catholic faith
Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2017
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
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Osborn, F. E. Ann. "A computer-aided methodology for the analysis and classification of British-Canadian children's traditional singing games /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487265143147931.
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Celik, Murat. "Comparison of the British and Canadian CIMIC and the U.S. CMO doctrines to the NATO CIMIC doctrine." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Dec%5FCelik.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Stabilization and Reconstruction))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2005.Thesis Advisor(s): Karen Guttieri. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-82). Also available online.
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Williamson, Corbin M. "We Are Still One Fleet: U.S. Navy Relations with the British, Canadian, and Australian Navies, 1945–1953." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1446052675.
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Cotnam, Erin. "Reading Between the Lines: A Case Study of British and Canadian National News Coverage of Sex Trafficking." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28766.
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Current scholarship on migrant sex work warns us to avoid viewing female migrant sex workers as either passive "victims" of male dominated trafficking schemes or ruthless villains who chose prostitution and illegal migration. This thesis concentrates on the print media in two democratic states, Canada and the United Kingdom in order to investigate how the public is being educated on migrant sex work. Specifically, this thesis analyzes representations of female migrant sex workers in news articles published by the British newspaper The Guardian, and the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail . A total of 100 articles are selected by keyword search from the years 2000-2008. They are analyzed by using frame analysis. Overall, this thesis concludes that the audiences of The Globe and Mail and The Guardian are provided with a partial account of who migrant sex workers are and how or why they end up in the sex trade.
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Lesser, Rebecca. "By the side of "The Roaring Lion" : Yousuf Karsh's portrait of Winston Churchill and British/Canadian wartime relations." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/20469.
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Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh’s 1941 portrait of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was published in newspapers, magazines and books throughout the Second World War; commonly referred to as “The Roaring Lion”, it served as a symbol of the strength of the Allied forces. To this day the image is reproduced in monographs, exhibition catalogues and biographies celebrating the lives of Winston Churchill and Yousuf Karsh. In this paper I move beyond the emphasis on the sitter and the photographer in order to argue that this photographic portrait served as the visual rhetoric of British/Canadian wartime relations. My assertion, that in its reception this portrait both reflected and shaped Canada’s wartime role in the British Commonwealth, stems from consideration of an often overlooked detail in the photograph – a speech to the Canadian Parliament in Churchill’s coat pocket.
My study of the Churchill portrait is framed by Roland Barthes’ reflections on the photographic pose and Max Kozloff’s arguments concerning the theatricality of formal portraiture. I begin by tracing how the story of “The Roaring Lion” has evolved since its inception, establishing that previous studies have only touched upon the significance of this portrait from the perspective of a Canadian wartime audience. I suggest that this photograph of Churchill served a purpose in appealing to both political and public desires, fulfilling the need for an image of a strong leader at this particular point in the Allied and specifically Canadian war effort. Further exploration of the broader historical context demonstrates how the nature of Canada’s wartime role may be characterized as a struggle to exercise newfound sovereignty while remaining loyally at the side of the British.
Finally, I examine why Karsh’s traditional style of formal portraiture appealed to the Canadian government as a form of unobtrusive war propaganda. I compare several of Karsh’s portrait studies of Canadian Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King to that of the Churchill portrait, in order to further support my assertion that this image of the British leader contributed to the rhetoric surrounding Canada’s wartime role – by the side of “The Roaring Lion”.
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Venskūnienė, Asta. "Translation Strategies for Culture-specific Items in the Lithuanian Versions of Four British and Canadian Novels for Young People." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2011. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20110616_164559-44311.
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This thesis analyses the translation strategies for culture-specific items (CSIs) in the translations by four different Lithuanian translators of four British and Canadian novels for young people, "Alone at Ninety Foot" (2001) by Katherine Holubitsky, "Hit and Run" (2003) by Norah McClintock, "Double Act" (1996) by Jacqueline Wilson and "The Borrowers" (1952) by Mary Norton. All these novels have a great variety of culture-specific items, often reflecting the lives of children and adolescents and issues that are important to them. The analysis of translation of culture-specific items is based on the strategies suggested by Eirlys E. Davies, while the categories of culture-specific items that are chosen for deeper discussion are those of a higher importance for the characters or themes of the novel. Statistical analysis of the strategies helps to form a clearer picture of the strategic choices preferred by each of the four Lithuanian translators.
The present work is divided into five sections and has two appendices. Section One introduces the purpose of the work and provides some information about the object of analysis: the translation of cultural references in four British and Canadian novels for young people. Section Two explains the terminology used for the analysis of the translation of culture-specific items. Section Three is divided into eight sub-sections: 3.1, 3.3, 3.5 and 3.7 discuss the importance of some categories of culture-specific items in each novel, while... [to full text]Šiame magistro darbe analizuojamos keturių vertėjų strategijos perteikiant kultūrines realijas keturiuse Didžiosios Britanijos ir Kanados jaunimo romanų vertimuose į lietuvių kalbą. Tai -Katherine Holubitsky romanas „Vienatvė prie Devyniasdešimties Pėdų tvenkinio“, Nora McClintock romanas „Pabėgęs iš įvykio vietos“, Jacqueline Wilson - „Mes - dvynės!“ bei Mary Norton - „Skoliniautojai“. Šiuose romanuose rasta daug įvairių kultūrinių realijų, kurios atspindi paauglių gyvenimą ir jiems svarbius dalykus. Kultūrinių realijų vertimas analizuojamas taikant Eirlys E. Davies strategijas. Šiai analizei atrinktos tos kultūrinių realijų grupės, kurios atlieka svarbų vaidmenį atskleidžiant romanų temas bei atvaizduojant pagrindinius veikėjus. Vertimo strategijų statistinių duomenų suvestinė padeda aiškiau suvokti keturių lietuvių vertėjų naudojamas strategijas. Darbą sudaro penki skyriai ir du priedai. Pirmame skyriuje pristatomas darbo tikslas ir analizės objektas - trumpai apibūdinamas kultūrinių realijų vertimas keturiuose Didžiosios Britanijos ir Kanados romanuose jaunimui. Antrame skyriuje paaiškinamos sąvokos, naudojamos kultūrinių realijų vertimo analizei. Trečią skyrių sudaro aštuoni poskyriai. 3.1, 3.3, 3.5 ir 3.7 poskyriuose pristatomos kai kurios svarbios kiekvieno romano kultūrinių realijų grupės, o 3.2, 3.4, 3.6 ir 3.8 poskyriuose aptariamos kultūrinių realijų vertimo strategijos kiekviename romane. Pastarieji poskyriai dar suskirstyti pagal kultūrinių realijų grupes... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Burton, Samantha. "Canadian girls in London: negotiating home and away in the British World at the turn of the twentieth century." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=107634.
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This dissertation examines the ways in which Canadian women artists who lived as expatriates in Britain managed multiple and often competing ideas about home in their writing and artwork in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on a small group of professional, white, English-Canadian painters, including Emily Carr, Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes, Mary Alexandra Bell Eastlake, Helen McNicoll, and Frances Jones, I reveal links between Canada and the greater British Empire that have tended to be lost in nationalist art history narratives. Though well-known and respected during their lifetimes as successful professional artists who pursued international careers, Canadian women of the pre-WWI period have since been almost exclusively studied through the narrow lens of the ideology of separate spheres. Without dismissing the very real restrictions that women did face because of their gender, I maintain that this distinction between public and private neglects the colonial context in which white Canadian women lived and worked. Indeed, the nineteenth-century cult of middle-class domesticity and the era of high imperialism went hand in hand: "home," the personal space of the family, and "home," the social space of a nation, were twinned in the discourse of empire, both signifying a bounded, secure, and racialized space of belonging, safely separate from the outside world. Indeed, the maintenance of this strict division between "home" and "away" was one of the structuring fictions of imperialism. By insisting on the importance of a consideration of the specificity of the experience of artists like Carr, Forbes, Eastlake, McNicoll and Jones as not just women, but as white women, and even more specifically, as white women working within the context of British imperialism, my work pushes at the boundaries of the now well-established framework of white feminist art history, which has overwhelmingly tended to shy away from questions of race and empire. Through an examination of primary sources such as letters, travel diaries, autobiographies, and sketchbooks, and a close analysis of visual representations of motherhood, domestic interiors, and literary and historical subjects, I argue that both senses of home were met with a deep ambivalence, that the boundaries between home and away were permeable, and that the global public and domestic private were, in fact, intertwined and mutually constitutive. By dismantling these boundaries and examining the networks that stretched across the Atlantic and throughout the English-speaking world, I situate Carr, Forbes, Eastlake, McNicoll, and Jones within the context of what has come to be called the "British World."Cette thèse examine les façons dont les femmes artistes canadiennes, en tant qu'expatriées en Grande-Bretagne, traitaient des idées multiples et souvent contradictoires du foyer au cours de leurs écrits et de leurs œuvres d'art vers la fin du XIXe et au début du XXe siècle. En visant un petit groupe de peintres, anglo-canadiennes de race blanche, telles qu'Emily Carr, Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes, Mary Alexandra Bell Eastlake, Helen McNicoll, et Frances Jones, je révèle des liens entre le Canada et l'Empire britannique qui ont eu tendance à se perdre dans les récits nationalistes d'histoire de l'art. Bien que ces artistes soient reconnues et respectées au cours de leur vie en tant qu'artistes professionnelles accomplies ayant poursuivi des carrières internationales, ces femmes canadiennes de la pré-période de la Première Guerre mondiale furent depuis étudiées presque exclusivement par le biais d'un prisme idéologique étroit, soit deux sphères distinctes. En tenant compte des restrictions réelles que posait leur statut de femme à cette époque, je maintiens que cette distinction publique et privée néglige le contexte colonial dans lequel ces femmes ont vécu et ont travaillé. En effet, le culte de la domesticité de la classe moyenne au XIXe siècle et l'ère d'impérialisme élevé étaient de concert: le 'foyer,' espace personnel de la famille et le 'foyer' en tant qu'espace social d'une nation furent jumelés dans le discours d'empire, donnant lieu à un sentiment d'appartenance délimité, sécurisant et racialisé, à l'abri du monde externe. Certes, la division distincte entre le foyer et l'extérieur fut l'une des structures fictives de l'impérialisme. En insistant sur l'importance d'examiner la spécificité de l'expérience de ces artistes, non seulement en tant que femmes, mais femmes blanches et plus particulièrement en tant que femmes œuvrant dans un contexte d'impérialisme britannique, mon travail pousse à la limite de l'encadrement, désormais bien établi en histoire de l'art des féministes blanches, qui a eu tendance à se détourner des questions de race et de l'empire. En puisant les sources primaires telles que les lettres, les carnets de voyages, les autobiographies et les cahiers de croquis et en effectuant une analyse minutieuse des représentations visuelles de la maternité, des intérieurs domestiques, et des sujets littéraires et historiques, je soutiens que les deux sens du terme 'foyer' ont fait l'objet d'une profonde ambivalence, les frontières entre le foyer et l'extérieur étaient perméables, et que le secteur public et celui de la vie domestique privée étaient de fait intimement liés et mutuellement constitutifs. En démantelant ces frontières et en examinant les réseaux à travers l'Atlantique et le monde anglophone, je situe donc Carr, Forbes, Eastlake, McNicoll, et Jones dans un contexte maintenant connu comme le 'monde britannique.'
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Thompson, Joan Kathleen. ""I feel therefore I am" : selected British and Canadian senior high school students’ conceptions of music and music education." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ61184.pdf.
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Barker, Ray Clinton Carleton University Dissertation History. "The Commonwealth labour conferences, the British Labour Party model, and their influence on Canadian social democratic politics, 1920-1961." Ottawa, 1996.
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Hart, Russell Allan. "Learning lessons: Military adaptation and innovation in the American, British, Canadian, and German armies during the 1944 Normandy campaign /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487944660932478.
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Curry, Maragaret Ann. "A comparison of the roles and attitudes of Canadian and British public library directors in dealing with intellectual freedom issues." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327118.
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Pliniussen, John Kurt. "Information systems for environmental scanning : a comparative study of utilization in the strategic planning process of British and Canadian universities." Thesis, University of Bath, 1985. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.767548.
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This dissertation identifies and compares the experiences, opinions, and information systems of the senior administrative teams at the Universities of Bath and Birmingham, in England, and at Dalhousie and Mount Saint Vincent, in Canada, relative to those environmental issues and forces influencing their respective institutions - and consequent planning processes. Through the use of an exploratory cross-national comparative case-oriented research framework, four instruments were pre-tested and utilized, following basic triangulation methodology, in order to address the aforementioned issues. The results of the research indicated there was much convergence of the research findings, both within and across the two countries, and that while all administrative teams were starting to utilize strategic planning procesess, each was at a different stage of integrating and formalizing this process throughout their respective universities. Finally, implications of the research findings were developed and recommendations posited with which the respective administrative teams could augment both the information systems and the strategic planning processes as detailed in this project.
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Raizada, Rachana. "Corporate responses to government and environmental group actions designed to protect the environment." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ27230.pdf.
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Stevens, Greg. "Property rights in a Canadian mountain ecosystem, the changing world of natural resource decision-making in the Arrow Lakes, British Columbia." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23511.pdf.
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Vanderpool, Joan Dorrell. "International academic relations and small nation states, a case study of selected British, American, and Canadian initiatives in Bahamian higher education." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq41047.pdf.
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Davies, Tomos Dafydd. "'A tale of two Tories?' : the British and Canadian Conservative Parties and the 'National Question' : the cases of Wales and Quebec." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/3bf2cabd-5d3b-47ed-959f-3ee41bf06ab5.
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This thesis can be read as a piece of contemporary political history, which demonstrates quite how flexible and variegated the response of the political right can be to the ‘national question.’ In particular, the thesis examines the British and Canadian Conservative parties, and their respective records in relation to key aspects of Welsh and Quebec nationhood. In exploring the parties’ relationship to the ‘national question,’ this study not only traces the development of the parties’ policies and attitudes in relation to self-government and devolution, but also examines their broader policy programmes for Wales and Quebec, especially in relation to language and culture. The study examines the British Conservative Party’s attitude to Welsh culture and the Welsh language; how the party viewed Wales’ relationship to England, Britain and Britishness; its relationship with Welsh nationalism; and the discourse offered by the party in relation to Welsh history. Similarly, the study will examine the Canadian Conservative Party’s attitude towards Quebec nationhood; its attitude towards the French language and culture; its approach towards Quebec’s place within confederation and its relationship with the wider Canadian state; the party’s relationship with Quebec nationalism; and finally the narrative provided by the party in relation to Quebec’s history.
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Murphy, Donald Currie Carleton University Dissertation Geology. "Stratigraphy and structure of the east-central Cariboo Mountains, British Columbia and implications for the geological evolution of the southeastern Canadian Cordillera." Ottawa, 1985.
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Gambling, Samantha Jane. "Canadian supply management : a food sovereignty policy? : British Columbia and New Zealand industry stakeholder perspectives on dairy policy in a neoliberal era." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/57378.
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As the concept of food sovereignty enters its third decade, greater analytical attention is needed to understand potentially enabling policy mechanisms in specific contexts. The Canadian supply management system for dairy, egg and poultry production is a national policy framework that controls production levels, sets prices, and limits imports. In theory, it is congruent with certain economic and political food sovereignty principles; however, the concept and value of supply management is increasingly challenged and critiqued from various socio-political perspectives. The research presented in this thesis examined supply management as a policy framework for dairy production, and its implications for food sovereignty in British Columbia (BC). In order to provide greater understanding of producer perceptions of a supply managed policy framework in relation to economic, political and socio-cultural aspects of milk production, I conducted 27 in-depth interviews with stakeholders from the BC dairy sector as well as textual analyses of industry reports. I also conducted interviews with 10 stakeholders from the New Zealand (NZ) dairy sector as a comparative case study of producer perspectives on dairy production in a liberalized policy environment. Results suggest that supply management in the BC dairy industry is more conducive to food sovereignty than the neoliberal and neo-cooperative organization of the NZ dairy industry. Yet while supply management supports economic viability for producers and demonstrates capacity for democratic governance and the development of social goals, it also has the potential to propagate economic, political and social inequities within the industry. In particular, producer identification with neoliberal economic objectives renders both supply managed and liberalized dairy systems subject to cultural forces that challenge food sovereignty principles. To function as a food sovereignty framework, supply management will require political adjustments and socio-cultural shifts both within and outside of the industry.Land and Food Systems, Faculty of
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Van, Rooy Alison Lorette. "The altruistic lobbyists : the influence of non-governmental organizations on development policy in Canada and Britain." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7327692d-f554-4f67-86e4-ab51e22053fc.
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The role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has sparked increased interest in recent years as they have grown in prominence and international activity. The thesis looks at British and Canadian NGOs concerned with overseas development assistance, and asks what influence they have wielded in the formulation of their own governments' development policies. Based on recent policy community writing, a "conceptual map" is devised which suggests that six elements are important for any analysis of influence: context, content, motivations, resources, tactics, and channels. Chapters two to five use these elements to look at the broad "policy communities" in which official development policy is formulated, and to examine the increasing roles and activities of NGOs as lobbyists. Chapters six and seven take a closer look at two specific "policy networks" within those communities: the relationships created around the World Food Conference in 1974 are compared with those existing at the time of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the Earth Summit). The thesis concludes that NGOs have had an increasing but limited influence on government policy, given (1) an increase in the activity and influence of NGOs, (2) the greater relevance of certain "elements of influence" over others, and (3) the comparatively stronger influence of Canadian NGOs in relation to their British counterparts. The thesis' contribution to knowledge is based on its use of extensive and original primary sources and interviews in both countries, its application of a policy community approach to a new field in international relations, and its systematic attempt to answer evolving questions about this growing, international, and non-governmental force.
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Cochrane, Dylan. "Stratigraphic and Carbon Isotope Evolution of an Ediacaran Mixed Siliciclastic Deep-Marine Base-of-Slope System, First Isaac Carbonate, Windermere Supergroup, Canadian Cordillera, British Columbia." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37363.
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The first Isaac carbonate (FIC) is a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate base-of-slope succession in the Neoproterozoic Windermere Supergroup (WSG). Outstanding outcrop exposure at three study areas provided an excellent opportunity to observe the stratigraphic and isotopic evolution of an ancient deepwater mixed turbidite system. Based on lithological and stratal dimensions, the FIC can be subdivided into lower and upper parts suggesting temporal changes in patterns of sediment transport and deposition. δ13Ccarb also changes from -5.2‰ at the base of the FIC to 2.5‰ in the middle and then decreases to -6.3‰ at the top. Notably, the δ13Ccarb of primary cement in FIC strata is substantially more positive than most other Neoproterozoic deep-marine sections, suggesting the retention of their original shallow-marine isotopic signature. Nevertheless, this trend potentially correlates with the EN2 excursion in China and therefore the Gaskiers glaciation (~580 Ma), although better age control of WSG is needed to corroborate this correlation.
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Kruse, Stefan. "Structural evolution of the northern Thor–Odin Culmination, Monashee Complex southern Canadian Cordillera." Thesis, University of New Brunswick, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1882/941.
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The Monashee Complex is a structural culmination which exposes rocks from the
lowest stratigraphic levels of the Canadian Cordillera. The Monashee Complex is
subdivided into two lesser structural culminations; the Frenchman Cap and Thor–Odin
culminations. The lithostratigraphic succession of the Thor–Odin Culmination is
completely transposed by penetrative isoclinal folds with amplitudes from microscopic
(<1 mm) to regional (10’s km). Lower structural levels are occupied by Proterozoic
gneisses and migmatites of the Monashee basement assemblage. These are infolded with
overlying metasedimentary rocks of the Monashee cover assemblage, which are
Proterozoic to possibly Paleozoic in age. The basement and cover assemblages were
subsequently intruded by Eocene granitic pegmatite, aplite and lamprophyre dykes.
Regional metamorphism of the basement and cover assemblages reached upper
amphibolite to lower granulite facies.
The northeastern portion of the Thor–Odin Culmination of the Monashee
Complex contains a suite of structures and fabrics, which are classified into four sets,
based on their interpreted kinematic significance. These are: 1) transposition related
structures (DT); 2) open, upright folds (DO); 3) exhumation related structures (DE); and 4)
brittle faults (DB). Each successive set of structures exerted a control on the geometry of
the next set. The large-scale geometry of the culmination is an interference structure
between DT folds, a DE arch and high-strain zones, and a DB brittle horst.
Early, DT fold style varies from intrafolial isoclinal “mature” style folds to
upright or inclined asymmetric “immature” folds. This continuum of fold styles, along
with evidence of anticlockwise rotation (looking down a vertical axis toward the shear plane) of fold axes and lineations is interpreted as being a result of penetrative triclinic
non-coaxial flow. DO upright, symmetrical folds overprint early structures and fabrics,
but are only preserved at low structural levels in the culmination where the DE coaxial
stretching overprint is weak. DE normal shear bands and boudins overprint all earlier
structures. A complex high-strain zone, the Thor–Odin High-Strain Zone, outcrops at
high structural levels and along the margins of the culmination. The Thor–Odin High-
Strain Zone developed as a result of material moving away from the crest of the
culmination, outwards toward the flanks.
Eocene brittle faults (DB) and fractures within the Thor–Odin Culmination of the
Monashee Complex are divisible into three distinct sets. Initial 340–010º trending strikeslip
faults (Set 1) were locally overprinted and reactivated by normal faults with a 325–
020º trend (Set 2). A third set of 255–275º trending fractures (Set 3) are interpreted as
conjugates to Set 1, reactivated as transfer faults to the Set 2 normal faults. Large
regional faults weather recessively forming topographic lineaments that transect the
Monashee Complex. The Victor Creek Fault defines one such lineament. Detailed
mapping within the northern Thor–Odin Culmination, reveals piercement points (fold
hinges) on the east side of the fault, which are not readily matched on the west side. The
minimum displacement required on the Victor Creek Fault to down-drop the fold hinge
below the level of exposure on the west side is 1370 m, assuming normal down-to-the
west displacement. However, the geometry of the fault is consistent with a Set 1 dextral
strike-slip fault. Matching the piercement points in the study area with possible
equivalents to the north indicates 55–60 kms of dextral strike-slip displacement.
The Monashee Reflection (MR) is a major crustal-scale, cross-cutting reflection
appearing on two mutually perpendicular Lithoprobe seismic profiles in the southern
Omineca Belt of the Canadian Cordillera. It has previously been interpreted as the downplunge
extension of an arched regional ductile thrust fault, the Monashee Décollement,
and is described as separating the Monashee Complex from the overlying Selkirk
Allochthon. Recent mapping demonstrates that this boundary is not a discrete ductile
thrust, but rather transposed and gradational. Overprinting the transition zone is a
complex, outward-dipping, normal, structure; the Thor−Odin High-Strain Zone.
Three alternative 3-D geometric models have been developed for the MR in order
to project the reflection to the surface. The favoured model correlates the surface trace of
the Thor−Odin High-Strain Zone with MR.
Normal shear sense kinematics are interpreted for the MR based on: 1) the
overall geometry and asymptotic relationship between the MR and reflections in the
hanging wall and footwall; 2) offset of metamorphic and geochronological gradients,
consistent with an extensional zone, rather than with thrust fault interpretation and 3) the
cross-cutting nature of the MR is consistent with normal structures throughout the region.
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Ostafichuk, William John Carleton University Dissertation Geography. "A comparative analysis of the route approval procedures for energy transmission corridors between the Canadian federal government and the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario." Ottawa, 1989.
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Laforge-Tallard, Magali M. A. "Les difficultés presentées par la traduction d'une oeuvre de la Côte ouest pour le lecteur européen." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30059.
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La literature de la Côte ouest demeure peu traduite en français. Son caractère unique et les difficultés posées par sa traduction expliquent en partie cet etat de fait regrettable. L'objectif de cette thèse est d'analyser les particularités de cette littérature régionale afin de la rendre plus accessible au traducteur et, par la-meme, au lecteur français.
Pour illustrer chacun des problèmes soulevés, des exemples concrets sont utilisés. lis sont tirés de deux nouvelles de Jack Hodgins, "Every Day of His Life" et "By the River", toutes deux publiées dans Spit Delaney's Island (Toronto: Macmillan, 1976). Ces oeuvres, profondément régionalistes, fournissent une excellente source de thèmes propres à la littérature de la Côte ouest et de problèmes particuliers pour le traducteur. Chaque question traitée est accompagnée de l'étude d'un cas de traduction offrant diverses solutions possibles et expliquant leur pertinence dans le cadre d'une oeuvre de la Côte ouest.
Cette analyse pratique est suivie d'un dialogue avec Jack Hodgins, visant à préciser et, dans certains cas, rectifier l'approche du traducteur et son interprétation de l'oeuvre à traduire. Des exemples de modifications qu'il est possible d'apporter àune traduction, grâce au dialogue avec l'auteur, sont proposés et discutés. Pour conclure, il sera débattu des avantages et des inconvénients d'une telle collaboration.
Cette thèse met en évidence la richesse de la littérature de la Côte ouest et offre un certain nombre d'outils indispensables a sa traduction. Les caractéristiques de cette littérature régionale, une fois reconnues et comprises par le traducteur, ne forment plus un obstacle à sa lisibilité pour le lecteur françis. Elles lui ouvrent au contraire tout un univers jusqu'alors insoupçonné.Arts, Faculty of
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Picha, Katharine Agnes. "Leisure reading habits and preferences of anglophone grade 6 early French immersion students related to book promotional activities." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28265.
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This study investigated the leisure reading of British Columbia grade 6 anglophone French immersion students, attempting to find out their genre preferences, their language preferences, the amounts they read, and whether there were significant differences between the reading of the boys and the girls. It further sought to determine whether there were any relationships between the children's reading and teacher, teacher-librarian and public librarian activities, or the French language materials to which the children had access. Data were collected by means of four questionnaires—to grade 6 immersion students, to grade 6 language arts teachers (English and French), to teacher-librarians in immersion schools, and to public librarians in communities with immersion schools. Statistical analyses were made of: circumstances reported by the teachers, teacher-librarians, and public librarians by isolating the replies of the children in the corresponding classes. This researcher found that: children preferred to read in English; genre preferences varied widely from child to child, and were different between boys and girls; very few activities of teachers, teacher-librarians or public librarians could be related to the volume of children's reading; and very few circumstances of the school library collections could be related to the volume of children's reading.Education, Faculty of
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Leason, Jennifer Lynn. "Exploring the complex context of Indigenous women’s maternity experiences in the Okanagan valley, British Columbia by expanding on Aboriginal women’s responses to the Canadian maternity experiences survey." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/60509.
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Indigenous women’s experiences during pregnancy, birth and the early months of parenthood are important to understand their strengths, gaps, needs, priorities and barriers in order to address maternal and child health disparities. Despite clear evidence on how social determinants of health influence health, there is limited research that includes the perspectives and experiences of Indigenous women. The purpose of my research was to explore Indigenous women’s maternity experiences. An interdisciplinary theoretical perspective that includes decolonized and Indigenous methodology, social determinants of health theory, critical medical anthropology, and feminist scholarship informs my research. I conducted an analysis of Indigenous women’s (N=410) responses to the Canadian Maternity Experiences Survey (PHAC 2009), followed by ethnographic research with ten Indigenous mothers in the Okanagan Valley, BC. Individual in-depth interviews and participant-observations were analyzed using thematic content analysis, which is organized into proximal, intermediate and distal contexts of Indigenous women’s maternity experiences. The aim of my research was to expand upon my MES findings and to explore the complex context of Indigenous women’s maternity experiences and to understand why they experience higher frequency of stressors, violence and postpartum depression. Each woman’s maternity experience is shaped by her unique circumstance. My findings suggest that Indigenous women’s maternity experiences are embedded within their historical, social and cultural experiences, thus illustrating the importance of addressing and alleviating social determinants of health. My research highlights and contextualizes Indigenous women’s narratives of stress, barriers and experiences of accessing maternity healthcare, the impacts of colonization, and concludes with Indigenous women’s strength and resiliency as women warriors. My dissertation contributes to expanding research on Indigenous women’s maternity experiences as a way of moving forward for culturally safe and improved maternal-child health, healthcare and maternity researchGraduate Studies, College of (Okanagan)
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Freeman-Maloy, Daniel. "Canada and the Palestine question : on Zionism, Empire, and the colour line." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/20370.
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This dissertation assesses the historical engagement of Canadian state and society with the Palestine problem. Canada’s contemporary position on the pro-Israel edge of the spectrum of world politics raises questions about long-term patterns of change and continuity in Canadian politics concerning the Middle East. Liberal patriotic historical narration of Canadian foreign policy conventionally invokes what Lester B. Pearson referred to as ‘the broad and active internationalism’ with which Canadian officials approached the world in the years after World War II. Moderate voices within the contemporary Canadian mainstream typically counterpose this history to a narrow support for Israel that pits Canada against a majority of the world community. This dissertation argues that contemporary political opposition in Canada needs to find other historical precedents to build upon. The established liberal internationalist framing obscures the formative influence upon Canadian foreign policy of a racialized politics of empire. The development of Canadian politics within the framework of the British Empire, and the domestic structures of racial power that formally endured into the twentieth century, need to be taken into account if the historical evolution of Canadian external affairs policy on Palestine – as more generally – is to be understood. Historical and political analysis structured around the assertion of national innocence undercuts the kind of understanding of the past that can inform constructive engagement with the problems of the present. As against the pervasive theme of fair-minded Canadian innocence, this dissertation finds that the implication of both the Canadian government and Canadian civil society in the denial of Palestinian rights has deep historical roots. It is critical to look not only at the scope of internationalist tendencies within Canadian political history, but also at their exclusionist boundaries. In so doing, this study positions Canada within wider Western structures of support for Israel against Palestinian and neighbouring Arab societies.
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O'Flaherty, Liam Michael. "Doing provincial constitutions differently : codifying responsible government in the era of executive dominance." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2488.
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This paper examines the changing nature of provincial constitutions in Canada. Provinces are granted the right to have their own constitutions by Sections 58-90 of the Constitution Act, 1867, and various sections of the Constitution Act, 1982. The substance of provincial constitutions includes various Acts of provincial parliaments, long-standing constitutional conventions, unwritten rules and principles and common law. With respect to the practice of responsible government, the provinces have long relied on the traditionally “flexible” nature of their largely unwritten constitutions. Using the case studies of statutes dealing with the executive and legislative branches of government in the provinces of British Columbia, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador, this paper analyzes recent changes in the statutes (and therefore constitutions) of the provinces. The analysis shows that there have been many changes in provincial constitutions on the subject of responsible government. The constitutions increasingly recognize the role of the Premier and cabinets, to the detriment of the traditional roles of Lieutenant Governors and the legislatures. This is in line with general trends in Canada’s provinces toward increased executive dominance. The practice of codifying changes in provincial constitutions is also more in line with how constitutional change happens in the states of comparable federations such as Australia and the United States.
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PERRY, JAY MARTIN. "The Chinese Question: California, British Columbia, and the Making of Transnational Immigration Policy, 1847-1885." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1394761542.
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McKillip, James D. "Norway House: Economic Opportunity and the Rise of Community, 1825-1844." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20520.
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This dissertation argues that the Hudson’s Bay Company depot that was built at Norway House beginning in 1825 created economic opportunities that were sufficiently strong to draw Aboriginal people to the site in such numbers that, within a decade of its establishment, the post was the locus of a thriving community. This was in spite of the lack of any significant trade in furs, in spite of the absence of an existing Aboriginal community on which to expand and in spite of the very small number of Hudson’s Bay Company personnel assigned to the post on a permanent basis. Although economic factors were not the only reason for the development of Norway House as a community, these factors were almost certainly primus inter pares of the various influences in that development.
This study also offers a new framework for the conception and construction of community based on documenting day-to-day activities that were themselves behavioural reflections of intentionality and choice. Interpretation of these behaviours is possible by combining a variety of approaches and methodologies, some qualitative and some quantitative. By closely counting and analyzing data in archival records that were collected by fur trade agents in the course of their normal duties, it is possible to measure the importance of various activities such as construction, fishing and hunting. With a clear understanding of what people were actually doing, it is possible to interpret their intentions in the absence of explicit documentary evidence.
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Teitz, Martin W. "Late proterozoic Yellowhead and Astoria Carbonate Platforms, southwest of Jasper, Alberta." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63371.
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