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Ankersen, Christopher. "Civil-military cooperation in the Canadian Army." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2009. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2798/.
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The aim of my thesis is to explain why civil-military cooperation is practiced the way that it is by the Canadian Army. Civil-military cooperation (the practice by military forces of engaging with civilian actors in order to improve the relationship between the civilian populace and the military forces), largely in the form of relief and reconstruction activities, has come to be a hallmark of contemporary military interventions, both in war and peace support situations. My thesis looks at civil military cooperation as it is actually performed and includes not only an examination of doctrine, but also of practice. In determining why civil-military cooperation is practiced in the way that it is, I use Clausewitz's Trinity as the basis for my explanation. I focus on the secondary aspect of the Trinity; namely, its actors: the People, the Government, and the Military. By doing so, and including an analysis of the relationships between these actors, it is possible to see that civil-military cooperation is a product of the combination the people's passion (which is ambivalent), the government's direction (which is ambiguous), and the army's skills (which they apply antagonistically). This resulting context is sufficiently indeterminate as to require significant interpretation on the part of those individuals conducting civil-military cooperation activities in the field. This runs counter to most established theories of civil military relations, which expect that government direction should determine military activity.
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Peters, William Neil. "Club dues?, the relevance of Canadian Army expeditionary forces." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0003/MQ44854.pdf.
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Leavey, W. A. "Canadian military humour, a perspective on Canadian Army humour during World War Two and Korea." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0001/MQ44915.pdf.
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Klotz, Sarah Beth. "Armed with cameras: The Canadian Army Film Unit during the Second World War." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26679.
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This thesis focuses on a previously undocumented part of Canadian military history: the Canadian Army Film Unit (CAFU). Like the official historians, war artists and photographers, the CAFU was to create an official record of Canada's Army in the Second World War. Although the National Film Board (NFB) was established in 1939, receiving complete control over the federal production of film in Canada, the CAFU was created in 1941 by the Department of National Defence outside of the mandate of the National Film Board Act. This caused a significant amount of conflict between the NFB and the Department of National Defence over which department would control the documentation of Canada's Army in the Second World War.
Reconstructing the history of the Canadian Army Film Unit from 1941 to 1945, this thesis analyses a number of issues that the Film Unit encountered in the production of its motion pictures. This chronological study explores the nature of filming during combat, censorship, distribution, and the soldier-cameramen's ongoing struggle with the NFB for control over the documentation of the war on film. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Brulotte, Bryan (Joseph Roger Bryan) Carleton University Dissertation History. "Visions of grandeur; planning for the Canadian post-war army, 1944- 1947." Ottawa, 1991.
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Davidson, Tina. "Hemlines and hairdos, body management for the feminine ideal in the Canadian Women's Army Corps." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0027/MQ52047.pdf.
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Cessford, Michael Pearson Carleton University Dissertation History. "Hard in the attack: the Canadian Army in Sicily and Italy, July 1943- June 1944." Ottawa, 1996.
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Perrun, Jody (Jody Clifford) Carleton University Dissertation History. "Missed opportunities; first Canadian army and the air plan for operation Totalize, 7-10 1944." Ottawa, 1999.
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Perrun, Jody. "Missed opportunities, first Canadian Army and the air plan for Operation Totalize, 7-10 August 1944." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0007/MQ43322.pdf.
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Allard, Geneviève. "Les infirmières militaires canadiennes pendant la Première Guerre mondiale." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/28419.
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Sherwin, Tamara A. "From total war to total force, civil-military relations and the Canadian Army Reserve (Militia), 1945-1995." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq23836.pdf.
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Drysdale, Dean Bradley. "The Canadian Army Reserve in the age of total force : an organisational analysis using a behaviour science approach." Thesis, City University London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337921.
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Case, Gordon Christopher. "Wartime Lessons, Peacetime Actions: How Veterans Like Major-General Dan Spry Influenced Canadian Society After 1945." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36186.
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This study examines some of the ways in which Second World War veterans helped shape Canadian society in the years after 1945 by using the life experience of one of their number, Major-General Daniel Charles Spry, as an interpretive model. Just over one million Canadian men and women re-entered civil life after their wartime military service. Representing approximately 35 per cent of Canada’s adult male population aged 25 to 49 in 1951, and found in nearly every facet of Canadian life, Second World War veterans possessed social importance that extended far beyond their experience of the Veterans Charter. Using Dan Spry’s documented thoughts and actions in war and peace, this study argues that a number of these individuals learned lessons regarding leadership, character, citizenship, and internationalism during their wartime military service and – finding them useful – applied such lessons to various aspects of their lives after the war’s end. In so doing, Second World War veterans helped to influence the character of postwar Canada’s institutions, workplaces, and the lives of many Canadians by providing societal leadership, moulding children’s character, developing future citizens, and trying to build a better world. Appreciating their varied contributions provides new insight into both veterans’ attitudes and the sort of place that Canada was after the guns fell silent in 1945.
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Owens, Brian McCullough. "Record-keeping in World War I, in relation to the development of modern bureaucracy in Great Britain and Canada : a study of government institutions and of the Royal Army Medical Corps and Canadian Army Medical Corps." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299178.
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Smylie, Eric. "Americans who did not wait: the American Legion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1915-1917." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332591/.
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This study examines the five American Legion battalions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force formed in 1915 specifically to recruit American volunteers for the Canadian overseas contingent of the First World War. This study reviews the organization of Canada's militia and Anglo-American relations before examining the formation of the American Legion, the background of its men, and the diplomatic repercussions it sparked. This study is based largely on material in the Public Archives of Canada including war records and the personal papers of several participants. During its brief existence, the American Legion precipitated constitutional, diplomatic, and political problems. The issues the American Legion raised were mostly solved by America's entry in the war. The episode hastened the maturity of Canada as a nation.
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Hildebrandt, Linda Yvonne. ""An investment in our youth", a project to enhance summer training for cadets in the Royal Canadian Army Cadet Program." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0027/MQ59502.pdf.
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Pellerin, R. Daniel. "Sharpening the Sabre: Canadian Infantry Combat Training during the Second World War." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34206.
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During the Second World War, training was the Canadian Army’s longest sustained activity. Aside from isolated engagements at Hong Kong and Dieppe, the Canadians did not fight in a protracted campaign until the invasion of Sicily in July 1943. The years that Canadian infantry units spent training in the United Kingdom were formative in the history of the Canadian Army. Despite what much of the historical literature has suggested, training succeeded in making the Canadian infantry capable of succeeding in battle against German forces. Canadian infantry training showed a definite progression towards professionalism and away from a pervasive prewar mentality that the infantry was a largely unskilled arm and that training infantrymen did not require special expertise. From 1939 to 1941, Canadian infantry training suffered from problems ranging from equipment shortages to poor senior leadership. In late 1941, the Canadians were introduced to a new method of training called “battle drill,” which broke tactical manoeuvres into simple movements, encouraged initiative among junior leaders, and greatly boosted the men’s morale. The Canadians participated in numerous military exercises of varying sizes that exposed problems with their senior leadership. The replacement of unsuitable officers greatly enhanced the fighting potential of Canadian units and formations. As time went on, infantry training became more rigorous and realistic, and tactical concepts became increasingly sophisticated. By the time of the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, infantry training was intense, suited to units’ assigned tasks, and highly technical, which belied the false prewar assumption that the infantry was an unskilled arm. By the time Canadian divisions entered battle, they were as prepared as they would ever be. The exception to this was the training of the overseas reinforcement units, which reached an acceptable standard only in the last months of the war. This study ultimately represents a substantial contribution to understanding the history of the Canadian Army and its role in the Second World War.
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MacKay, Garth M. "The Holiness Movement in the Canadian Maritime Region, 1880-1920." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21542.
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This thesis examines five religious organisations which existed in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, collectively known as the Maritime Region, between 1880 and 1920. Each of these denominations emphasised holiness theology, albeit in varying degrees. They include, in order of their establishment in the region, the Methodist Church, the Free Christian Baptist Conference, the Salvation Army, the Reformed Baptist Alliance of Canada and the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene. This study assesses these religious bodies in a number of ways. First, it examines their theological beliefs, comparing them with one another and tracing any changes which occurred in them between 1880 and 1920. Second, it considers the various associations which each of these denominations developed with the late nineteenth-century American holiness movement. The enquiry devotes particular attention to the response of each religious body to a spiritual encounter, known as ‘entire instantaneous sanctification’, popularised especially during the last quarter of the nineteenth century by the holiness movement in parts of Canada, Great Britain and the United States. Third, a review of the unique strengths and weaknesses of each of the five institutions offers an explanation for the numerical and financial growth of several of these groups early in the twentieth century, as well as the degeneration of others. Fourth, the study discloses much of the opposition which was directed towards Maritime holiness movement sympathisers, offering a number of explanations why some of these individuals left their traditional religious affiliations to join holiness bodies which they perceived to be true advocates of scriptural holiness. Fifth, it appraises the strong leadership which a number of individuals offered to the holiness cause in the Maritime region, taking into account the education, religious training, financial status, gender and ancestral origin of these men and women. Finally, a thorough statistical analysis of each constituency highlights the unique composition of each denomination’s membership. Taken together, these features inform the primary argument of the thesis, which is that significant transformations occurred in some of these religious bodies at the same time as large percentages of constituents became wealthier and more socially acceptable. These changes eventually facilitated the merger of the Methodist Church and the Free Christian Baptist Conference, the two oldest denominations, with national mainline religious bodies. This thesis contends that such unions may not have occurred had these groups not attained public recognition. Furthermore, in realising these achievements both of these denominations relinquished the more radical elements of their heritage, as well as much of the spiritual passion linked with it.
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From, Jeffrey D. "The impact of the U.S. Army's elimination of support for the M109A1-A4 on the Canadian Army : a study in alternative sources of supply." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1999. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA361677.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, March 1999.Thesis advisor(s): Thomas H. Hoivik, Keebom Kang. "March 1999". Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-103). Also available online.
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Labrosse, Julien. "“I didn’t have time to find the English words”: The Korean War’s Role in the Evolution of Bilingualism in the Canadian Armed Forces." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34256.
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This thesis explores the impact of the Korean War on the evolution of the role of the French language in the Canadian military between 1946 and 1954. It explains how the Korean War acted as both a catalyst for a more accommodating stance towards the French language in the Canadian Armed Forces, and an immediate impediment to the implementation of such changes.
Particularly, this thesis explores the conflict that emerged between various officials in the Department of National Defence concerning the place that should be made for the French language, and how best to recruit more French Canadians. It shows that there was serious disagreement between the Minister of National Defence, Brooke Claxton, who wanted more bilingualism in the Canadian military, and the Chief of General Staff, General Guy G. Simonds, who resisted further concessions to francophones.
Moreover, this thesis reveals the extent to which there was goodwill within the Canadian Armed Forces on the part of both anglophones and francophones on the frontline in Korea. This constituted the basis on which the Department of National Defence was able to begin the process of implementing a more bilingual system. In this respect, this thesis shows the Canadian military to have been ahead of the federal Civil Service.
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Seefeldt, Connor. "'Factum ex scientia': I Canadian Corps Intelligence during the Liri Valley Campaign, May – June 1944." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23327.
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Studies on Canadian Army military intelligence remain sparse in Canadian military historiography. This study is unique in that it focuses on the development, doctrine, and influence of intelligence within the I Canadian Corps throughout the Liri Valley battles during the Italian Campaign. It will be argued that I Canadian Corps intelligence achieved notable overall success in helping to break the Hitler Line by providing comprehensive and relatively up-to-date information on enemy dispositions and strengths which helped commanders and staff planners properly prepare for the operation. This success was attributable to three main factors: excellent intelligence personnel selection and training; the successful mentorship of I Canadian Corps intelligence by Eighth Army's intelligence cadre; and the overall effectiveness of 1st Canadian Infantry Division's intelligence organization which had been in the Mediterranean theatre since July 1943. Notwithstanding these successes, a number of faults within the Canadian Corps intelligence system must also be explained, including the poor performance of 5th Canadian Armoured Division's intelligence organization during the pursuit up the Liri–Sacco Valleys, and the mediocre execution of Corps counter-battery and counter-mortar operations. This study will demonstrate how an effective intelligence organization must augment existing army doctrine and how it can mitigate, though not completely eliminate, battlefield uncertainty. Further, it will also demonstrate that a comprehensive lessons-learned process must be undertaken to continually refine existing intelligence doctrine and procedures, with frequent training programs inculcating personnel in this doctrine. Taken as a whole, this study is unique as it is one of only several studies devoted solely to developing a greater understanding of a little-understood, and often forgotten, staff function within the Canadian Army during the Second World War.
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Faraday, Bruce Douglas History Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Half the battle : the administration and higher organisation of the AIF 1914-1918." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of History, 1997. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38693.
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Administration of armies has been sadly neglected in historical studies but the ability of the AIF to develop an efficient system of administration and to fit into the equally efficient British system, had much to do with the success of the AIF, especially late in the war. The various Empire governments had made some preparations for an alliance system of fighting in the event of a major war, but in practice these needed a great deal of adjustment. This thesis examines the manner in which the dominions and Britain planned for a possible war and the way in which changes had to be made in practice. It examines the manner in which the AIF developed a system and the many facets of this system, which had developed a remarkable degree of efficiency by the end of the war. Because the AIF and CEF were so alike in size, composition and in the problem they faced, a recurring theme of the thesis is a comparison between the two. It embraces the following: a. Prewar preparation for a combined empire army. b. The organisation of the administrative system of the AIF and the manner this improved through the war. c. The organisation and problems of the CEF administrative system d. The development of a system of capitation to pay for the services supplied to the AIF and CEF. e. Supply of equipment. f. Manner in which both forces worked to maintain their forces. g. The manner in which both forces catered for the needs of the individual soldiers. h. Supply in the field i. Medical administration in the AIF j. The administration in the AIF k. The administration of discipline in the AIF l. The demobilisation of the AIF.
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Dunn, Jason. "Women in the combat arms, a question of attitudes?" Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0002/MQ45216.pdf.
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Stern, Gabriel M. A. "Forging new identities : explaining success and failure in Canadian arms control initiatives 1990-2004." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102179.
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Although Great Powers are often thought to be the most influential actors in terms of international arms control efforts, during the 1990s Canada showed itself capable of successfully leading several arms control initiatives. This research sets out to (a) explain why Canada has been able to enjoy these successes while other recent Canadian arms control leadership efforts have failed, and (b) further the abstract thinking around Canadian foreign policy. This is done by introducing the Identity Management model of arms control to explain the process by which Canadian arms control processes succeed or fail, and testing it against four post-Cold War Canadian-led initiatives: the Open Skies initiative, the landmines initiative, the MOX fuel initiative, and the small arms initiative.Within the Identity Management model, Canada is classified as an Activist State, a categorisation that rejects and improves upon the popular, yet heavily flawed, Middle Power concept. Blending together critical insights from realism and constructivism, the Identity Management model focuses on the foreign policy preferences of states, distinguishing between the preferences of Great Powers, such as the United States, and the preferences of Activist States. The foreign policy preferences of Activist States are designed and promoted by important elite domestic actors, and expressed as the country's chosen identity on a given arms control issue. The Identity Management model thus postulates that while states such as Canada can express independent policy initiatives, these identities are offered up into the international system, the character of which is defined by the foreign policy preferences of Great Powers. Overall, the Identity Management model establishes that Canadian arms control initiatives are successful only when Canada's chosen identity accurately reflects the constantly changing character of the international system.
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Graff, David. "Ethics and Arms Sales: A Discourse Analysis of Canadian Foreign Policy." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42200.
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Since 2015, the Canadian government has made recurrent assertions that Canada has a feminist foreign policy. A policy, according to certain critics, that is hypocritical because of the government’s continuation of arms exports to countries deemed unsavory from a human rights standpoint. This context makes for a fertile exploration of the nexus between ethical foreign policy aspirations and the realities of foreign relations policy implementation and impact. By assessing these circumstances, I attempt to understand how hypocrisy functions within Canadian foreign policy. Through a method of discourse analysis, I evaluate the official discourses from the government and responses by civil society in relation to the Liberal Government’s handling of the Canada – Saudi Light Armoured Vehicle contract. In addition, by analysing Canadian foreign policy, via departmental reports, I highlight how the government attempts to infuse Canada’s foreign policy with ethical considerations. By tracing the rise of ethical considerations in Canada’s foreign policy, I argue that hypocrisy is intertwined with ethical considerations, thus systematically embedding hypocrisy within established Canadian institutions. Moreover, I show that Canada is committed to the concept of risk transfer, the doctrine of double effect and need for ‘proof grounded in evidence’ when assessing arms exports. These concepts shift the risks associated with hypocritical action away from the government and onto the people it purports to aid.
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Erickson, Darrin Jerroll. "Relinquishing Canada's nuclear roles." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29675.
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This thesis is intended to enhance our knowledge of the processes behind the relinquishing of Canada's nuclear roles. As such, the underlying factors which helped bring about this change in Canadian defence policy are to be isolated and assessed.
The process of retiring Canada's nuclear roles was long and complex, involving many actors and influences. The factors examined in this thesis are looked upon in the greater context of the 1960s and 1970s. The global and domestic political climates, the strategic environment and Canada's power within the global community as a whole during this time period, are considered.
This study has revealed several interesting conclusions which one may draw concerning the relinquishing of Canada's nuclear roles. First of all, the Trudeau government's position on nuclear weapons coincided with growing opposition to nuclear weapons within the Canadian public. Furthermore, it is evident that public opinion on the nuclear issue was closely related to an individual's perception of the United States and his or her position on defence spending. Secondly, the process of retiring the nuclear weapon systems was led largely by Pierre Trudeau and some of his close associates, in particular Ivan Head and Donald MacDonald. This was done in the face of intense bureaucratic resistance. Thirdly, abandoning the nuclear roles was strongly related to Canada's declining position in the global community and also to the growth of detente. In addition, it was also partly the result of a rapidly changing strategic environemnt in which weapon systems were quickly made obsolete. Perhaps most importantly, this thesis shows that relinquishing Canada's nuclear roles was an extremely important part of the 1971 defence review. The issue of nuclear weapons is one which has been largely overlooked by defence and foreign policy analysts in the past, such as Thordarson as well as Granatstein and Bothwell, and therefore merits our attention.
For this thesis, telephone interviews had to be conducted because very little written material is available to the public. Regrettably, these interviews must remain confidential for the time-being. Several books, articles and public opinion surveys also were very helpful in conducting this analysis.Arts, Faculty of
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Goldie, Mary Lorraine. "Pierre Elliott Trudeau and nuclear arms control : Canadian approaches to the nuclear world, 1978-84." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28053.
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The timeframe of 1978-1984, a period of critical importance in the development of the nuclear world, sets the boundaries for this analysis of Canadian nuclear arms control policy. The situation brought about by increasing hostility between the superpowers, and changes in doctrine and advances in technology that facilitated nuclear war-fighting scenarios, was extremely grave. Therefore it would seem appropriate for Canada, in its traditional role as mediator and middlepower devoted to easing the danger of world conflagration, to have taken an active stand in its nuclear arms control diplomacy. Such was not the case, as bureaucratic politics, cybernetic decision-making, and cognitive dissonance made adherence to the status quo, or minimal rhetorical changes, the order of the day. While that changed towards the end of the period under examination, there remained little substantive modification of policy, despite the growing threat of nuclear disaster.
Four examples of Canadian nuclear arms control policy are examined with the aid of official government documents and appropriate commentary from a variety of analysts. Canadian arms control policy at the two United Nations Special Sessions on Disarmament, the controversy over the question of testing the American Air-Launched Cruise Missile in Canada, and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's personal peace initiative provide a wealth of information that is used to illustrate the struggle of bureaucratic politics versus rational decision-making.
Some of the more influential theoretical and structural difficulties within the foreign policy-making process in Canada that posed real impediments to comprehensive analytical decision-making are presented. These problems are outlined in order to provide a framework for the analysis of the four policy situations. In the first three cases, the decision-making indicates the predominance of the bureaucracy's cybernetic conduct. In the last instance, the attempts of the Prime Minister to impose rational/analytical decision-making on the policy process caused him to actively circumvent the bureaucracy within Canada, but he was bested by external forces.
The thesis of this monograph is that Canadian nuclear arms control policy for much of this period was reactive, limited to well-crafted rhetoric, and oblivious to the changing nature of the strategic environment. The reasons for this policy behavior may be traced to external constraints imposed by the dynamics of the international system, the nonrationality of the nuclear world, and the weakness of Canada's influence vis-a-vis the superpowers. As well, the importance of not alienating the United States by too forceful a criticism was an essential consideration in the policy process due to the many issues of contention that already existed between Canada and the United States, and the vulnerability of Canada in economic terms to the negative reactions of its North American neighbour. When the Prime Minister did try to set policy and actively change the nuclear world via his personal peace initiative, the same factors and forces proved to be his undoing. In addition, the reactions on the international scene by some of the more powerful Western players indicate that Canada did not have the credibility to attempt such an influential role in the nuclear world. This response may have been prompted by Canada's minimal defence spending in recent years, or it may well have been the fate of a middlepower trying to exert influence in areas where the other nations were loathe to accept it.Arts, Faculty of
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Sisto, Joseph M. "Canada and the nuclear arms race : a case study in unilateral self-restraint." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=29780.
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The objective of this thesis is to determine why Canada, a state that pioneered nuclear technology, and that faced, throughout the Cold War, the Soviet threat to its national security, consistently rejected any opportunity to convert its latent nuclear capability into an indigenous nuclear weapons program. The answer to this research question must address a number of explicit contradictions in Canadian foreign policy. While Canada has, on the one hand, rejected the bomb, it has, on the other hand, pursued defence and industrial policies based upon intimate involvement with nuclear weapons. Moreover, Canada espouses, on the one hand, a clearly realpolitik view of international relations, while, on the other hand, committing to forging for itself a role as an international peace broker. It becomes, therefore, unclear which theory of international relations could adequately explain this dualism in Canadian policy formulation. This thesis argues that power and self-interest are not separable from Canada's decision to reject the bomb, and that by modifying certain precepts of realist theory, we may substantiate the hypotheses that two disincentives to proliferation are at the root of Canada's policies: first, Canada's political and geographical proximity to the United States and thus a credible U.S. nuclear umbrella; and second, prestige, where Canada interpreted both the rejection of its nuclear option and its internationalist policies as a sign of independence vis-a-vis the United States.
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Sisto, Joseph Michael. "Canada and the nuclear arms race, a case study in unilateral self-restraint." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0017/MQ54227.pdf.
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Belrose, Ashliegh Theresa. "The Champlain Sea/Lake Champlain Transition Recorded In The Northeast Arm Of Lake Champlain, USA-Canada." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2015. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/349.
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Sediment accumulated on a lakebed archives information about past climate and changes in the regional environment. Previous studies (Burgess, 2007; Koff, 2011; Palmer, 2012) in the Northeast Arm of Lake Champlain, specifically Missisquoi Bay and Saint Albans Bay, showed a period (~9,400 - 8,600 yBP) of elevated organic matter deposition in both bays, indicating a productive event that pre-dated any possible anthropogenic influence. However, the record was abruptly cut off and any documentation representing the span of time leading up to this event was not found. The elevated organic matter levels were explained as being the result of a warm, dry environment that reduced lake level and promoted productivity within the bay.
A new goal was formulated to lengthen the Holocene record for Missisquoi Bay (MSB) and Saint Albans Bay (SAB) in order to compare paleorecords and capture the span of time leading up to this highly productive event, possibly related to the Champlain Sea/Lake Champlain Transition (~10,000 yBP). One sediment core was taken from each bay as close to the original coordinates as the sediment cores obtained in previous studies (Koff, 2011; Palmer, 2012). The sediment cores were processed in the lab and sediment samples were tested for water content (WC), %C, %N, C:N, and diatom content.
Each bay's sediment record consisted of a distinct marker representing lowest water level, separating a Champlain Sea unit at the bottom and an overlying Lake Champlain unit. A warming climate coupled with low lake level during this time may be the cause of the increase of productivity (%C) associated with the markers in both bays. Between ~8,600 - 9,400 yBP, a distinct marker represented evidence of a wetland in Saint Albans Bay before the onset of Lake Champlain. Diatom content in the wetland sediments indicated a generally shallow oligotrophic and alkaline body of water that shifted back and forth from brackish to freshwater. The record shows the wetland was eventually drowned as water level continued to rise, slowly transitioning into the Lake Champlain unit. Proxy results showed that internal processes within the lake continued to change in response to climatic and environmental drivers until present day conditions were reached.
At ~9,400 yBP in Missisquoi Bay, there is an erosional unconformity between the Champlain Sea and Lake Champlain units, which corresponds to the low water levels also inferred from the SAB record during that time. After this unconformity, %C results show production within MSB fluctuated, similar to SAB, in response to changing climate and water levels until the present-day conditions of Lake Champlain were established.
In sum, MSB and SAB each contain evidence of an ancient shoreline marker in different forms. Both markers indicate that lowest water levels occurred ~9,400 yBP and that lake level has risen ~7 - 8.5 meters since that time. The rise in lake level is associated with the transition into Lake Champlain. This Champlain Sea/Lake Champlain Transition lasted from ~9,400 yBP until ~8,600 yBP. Therefore, the oldest Lake sediment in the Northeast Arm of Lake Champlain is only 8,600 yBP.
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BERGMANN, WILLIAM H. "COMMERCE AND ARMS: THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, NATIVE AMERICANS, AND THE ECONOMY OF THE OLD NORTHWEST, 1783-1807." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1111608712.
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Sheehan, Virginia. "La vie domestique des officiers britanniques et canadiens résidant dans la maison Maillou au XIXe siècle : étude de la collection archéologique." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ42013.pdf.
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Marston, Daniel P. "Swift and bold : the 60th Regiment and warfare in North America, 1755-1765." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ29505.pdf.
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Pagé, Philippe. "L'origine de la distribution des teneurs en EGP dans les faciès mantelliques océaniques et ophiolitiques : exemples de la faille transformante Garrett, Pacifique sud et du massif de North Arm Mountain, complexe ophiolitique de Bay of Islands, Terre-Neuve, Canada." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/35028.
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Les éléments du groupe du platine (EGP) peuvent s’avérer très utiles pour aborder certains processus pétrogénétiques et géochimiques ayant affecté le manteau terrestre. Les péridotites mantelliques et certaines roches intrusives provenant de la section mantellique du Massif North Arm Mountain (MNAM) (Complexe Ophiolitique de Bay of Islands, Terre-Neuve) ainsi que de la Faille Transformante Garrett (FTG) ont fait l’objet d’une détermination des teneurs en Ir, Ru, Rh, Pt et Pd par spectrométrie de masse à émission de plasma. Ces données sur les teneurs en EGP ont été obtenues grâce à une méthode d’extraction et de dosage récemment mise au point....Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2019
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Varfalvy, Veronika. "Interactions magma-manteau dans les péridotites du massif de North Arm Mountain, complexe ophiolitique de Bay of Islands, Terre-Neuve, Canada, implications sur la genèse des magmas en contexte de subduction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape4/PQDD_0019/NQ56452.pdf.
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Cnossen, Christine Lisa. "Token or full member of the team? : an examination of the utilization and status of women in combat arms positions in the armed forces of Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States of America." Thesis, University of Hull, 1994. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3491.
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It is argued in this thesis that because of the androcentric nature of the military institution women in combat arms positions in the armed forces of Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States of America are or will be tokens. In order to investigate and support the hypothesis several areas of literature had to be examined and interviews undertaken with military policy-makers/advisers, recruiters and retired female brigadier generals.Chapter One examines the broad body of literature in the field of military sociology. This chapter details the history of the evolution of the military from a mercenary force to mass armies sustained by conscription through to all-volunteer forces. It also exammes the effect of technology on the military, the changing role of the military in society, and theories of occupationalization versus the institutionalization/professionalization of the armed forces.Chapter Two examines and critiques the notions of inherent female pacifism and inherent male aggression expounded within some of the feminist literature. By detailmg a cross-cultural history of women warriors and female combatants the aforementioned notions are dismissed as untenable. Chapter Three continues with a presentation of the history of the utilization of women in the armed forces of the three countries from their first unofficial presence as "camp-followers" to the present day expanded roles in combat positions.In Chapter Four the theories of tokenism utilized in this thesis are detailed. This chapter presents and assesses the definitions of "token" and "tokenism". A review of the literature of women in male-dominated occupations and women in the military as "tokens" is also undertaken.The fifth chapter details the methodology utilized in this thesis. The fieldwork and questionnaire developmental processes, the interview questionnaires, details of the respondents and the locations of the interviews, and problems encountered in the research are presented.Chapter Six involves a presentation of the results of the interviews with military policymakers/ advisers, recruiters and retired female general officers. The results are presented on a person-by-person basis followed by overall generalizations and generalizations based on country and occupational category all of which provide the impetus for the supporting of the hypothesis.It is in the eighth chapter that theory is applied to practice in that the theories and definitions of tokens and tokenism are applied to the results of the interviews and supplemented by defence document studies to support the hypothesis that because of the androcentric nature of the military institution women in combat arms positions in the armed forces of Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States of America are or will be tokens.
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Billiard, Sonya Marie. "A bioindicator approach to measurement of chronic stress in territorial populations of cunner, Tautogolabrus adspersus (Walbum, 1792), adjacent to a non-chlorinated pulp and paper mill in the Humber Arm Estuary, Newfoundland, Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/MQ36096.pdf.
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Pagé, Philippe. "L'origine de la distribution des teneurs en EGP dans les facies mantelliques océaniques et ophiolitiques, exemples de la faille transformante Garrett, Pacifique Sud et du massif de North Arm Mountain, Complexe ophiolitique de Bay of Islands, Terre-Neuve, Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ60759.pdf.
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Engen, Robert Charles. "The Canadian Soldier: Combat Motivation in the Canadian Army, 1943-1945." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/12254.
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This thesis is a study of the combat motivation and morale of infantrymen in the Canadian Army during the Second World War. Using battle experience questionnaires, censorship reports, statistical analyses, operational research, and other contemporary sources, this study offers a “big-picture” look at the human dimensions of warfare as experienced by Canadian infantrymen during the Italian and Northwest Europe campaigns of 1943 to 1945. The myths and realities of who the Canadian soldiers were provides the background, as does an exploration of their training and organization. Each core chapter explores one segment of the Canadian campaigns in Europe: the Sicilian and Italian campaign of 1943, the Italian campaign of 1944-45, the Normandy campaign of the summer of 1944, and the Northwest Europe campaign of 1944-45. Each of these chapters analyzes the force structure, behaviour in battle, morale, cohesion, and motivation of Canadian infantrymen during that particular segment of the campaign, setting them in comparison with one another to demonstrate continuities and change based upon shifting conditions, ground, and circumstances. In doing so, this thesis offers an original interpretation of Canadian combat motivation in the Second World War. Due to high infantry casualty rates, influxes of new reinforcements, and organizational turmoil, Canadian soldiers in many campaigns frequently fought as “strangers-in-arms” alongside unfamiliar faces. In spite of being strangers, however, the Canadians maintained remarkably high levels of cohesion, morale, and effectiveness (despite setbacks and periods of malaise) throughout the fighting. These successes can be attributed to the phenomenon of “swift trust” cohesion, the preservation of NCO leadership even in the face of heavy casualties, and effective training.Thesis (Ph.D, History) -- Queen's University, 2014-06-26 10:11:09.86
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Ward, Russell V. J. "Military preparedness in a new security environment : the Canadian army reserve’s contribution to public safety and domestic security." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/16787.
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Military Preparedness in a New Security Environment: The Canadian Army Reserve's
Contribution to Public Safety and Domestic Security addresses the Reserve's response to
Canada's domestic security needs in the current security environment. The security environment
is evolving, which has led to increasing constraints and the search for evolving security solutions
for Western national governments, including a greater use of the Reserve. However, certain
tensions inhibit the twin-track contributions of the Reserve to both domestic and international
operations, arising from issues such as role definition, buy-in, and resource commitment. The
"Canadian solution" o f having the Reserve "muddle through" these issues and follow both roles
will inevitably need to change if the Reserve is to effectively serve Canadians in the future, be
that internationally or domestically.
The methods employed include the analysis of existing literature addressing the evolving
security environment, concepts of civil-military relations, and recent Canadian national security
policies, combined with a presentation of the Army Reserve, and a comparative study with key
Commonwealth counterparts. Thus, at a conceptual level, at the Canadian level, and at the level
of Canada's international partners, it became apparent that there are tensions between a domestic
and international role for the Reserve which could create problems for the Reserve's future. In
practice, the methodology consisted of the analysis of academic and government primary and
secondary sources as well as drawing upon the author's interviews with individuals of relevant
expertise or experience.Arts, Faculty of
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Sawyer, Bonnie. "A Critical History of Social Work, The Canadian Salvation Army, and Female Sexual "Deviance" in Canada, 1886-1940." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5492.
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Canadian historians tend to present the field of social work that emerged in the early twentieth century as a secular and scientific advancement from inefficient, religious charity work that predated it. This thesis not only challenges the binary thinking as it pertains to social work and charity, but argues that social work was established in Canada by religious groups, many of which were evangelical, such as the Canadian Salvation Army. Introduced to American social work theories and methods in the late nineteenth century, the Canadian Salvation Army incorporated the theory of "feeblemindedness," and the methods of casework and classification, into their traditional discourses on, and practices with, female sexual "deviants" in the early-twentieth century. From 1910 to 1940, there was a transition period between the dominance of evangelical charity and that of secular social work, in working with female sexual "deviants," throughout which evangelicals braided religious discourses with those of scientific social work. By 1940 secular social workers had won the battle for supremacy, and as a result, the dehumanization of sex workers and unmarried mothers increased as they went from being understood as victims/sinners who could be fully reclaimed, to biologically inferior and subjected to forced institutionalization and sterilization.Graduate
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Watson, Brent Byron. "Far Eastern tour : the experiences of the Canadian infantry in Korea, 1950-53." Thesis, 1999. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/8843.
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Canadian ground troops took an active part in United Nations operations during the Korean War. Although the Army's contribution of the 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group was small by First and Second World War standards, only the Republic of Korea, the United States and Great Britain fielded larger contingents. The core of the 25th Brigade consisted of three infantry battalions. They contained most of the Brigade's effective manpower, and bore the brunt of the fighting.
Despite the infantry's pre-eminent role in Korea, their experiences up to now remain forgotten. This thesis examines the ordeal of Canadian combat soldiers in the Far East and shows how they suffered horrendous, often unnecessary, hardships at the hands of an indifferent high command.
From the outset, Canadian infantrymen were neither properly trained nor equipped for the combat conditions they encountered. Battlefield performance and combat motivation suffered accordingly. The infantry's problems extended into other areas. Insufficient indoctrination left soldiers poorly prepared for the non-combat aspects of service in the Far East, leading some to question the purpose of Canadian involvement in Korea. Medical preparations were also inadequate, making soldiers susceptible to a variety of infectious diseases. In the combat zone, little regard was shown for soldiers' welfare. Infantrymen lived like beggars without even the most basic comforts and amenities, relying on alcohol to assuage the discomforts of life in the field. Clearly, the Canadian infantry was plagued by problems in Korea. These problems shaped the experiences of Canadian combat soldiers, making their Far Eastern tours far more difficult and dangerous than they need have been.Graduate
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Balzer, Timothy John. "The information front: the Canadian Army, public relations, and war news during the Second World War." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1346.
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War news and public relations (PR) was a critical consideration for the Canadian Army during the Second World War. The Canadian Army developed its PR apparatus from nothing to an efficient publicity machine by war’s end, despite a series of growing pains. Canadian Military Headquarters in London appointed the first PR Officer, William Abel, in January 1940. PR services overseas grew along with the size of the army. The early days were marked by lack of coordination and often jurisdictional and personality conflicts between Abel and the other PR Officers and organizations. The 19 August 1942 Dieppe raid was the low point for both the accuracy of war news and Canadian PR involvement because Lord Mountbatten’s Combined Operations Headquarters minimized Canadian PR’s involvement in planning. This resulted in early portrayals of the raid as successful and the British censored a more honest explanation by the Canadian Army. The Sicilian and Italian campaigns provided a learning experience for the PR units. In Sicily, the news coverage of the Canadians was a public success, but PR had trouble with their allies in gaining national recognition and representation. Additionally, the question of correspondents’ priorities and delays getting to the front and transportation difficulties angered the press. Many of these problems continued in Italy until the appointment of Richard Malone, who enjoyed support from the politicians, press, and military. Applying the Mediterranean experience and participating in Allied publicity planning contributed to the excellence of Canadian PR during the Northwest Europe Campaign. PR maintained the confidence of the press while still controlling the correspondents. The army also largely overcame the temptation to censor bad news although this sometimes embarrassed Ottawa. Allied regulations sanitized war news preventing the reporting of the more disturbing aspects of war. Through censorship, the army exercised a great deal of control over the news media, yet this hegemony was incomplete because of need to keep the press friendly. Although a large sceptical minority remained, most Canadians considered their war news to be accurate. In sum, Canadian Army PR was generally successful, portraying the army positively and attracting media coverage.
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Gordon, Hugh Avi. "Cheers and tears: relations between Canadian soldiers and German civilians, 1944-46." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3180.
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This dissertation examines relations between Canadian soldiers and German civilians from March 1945 to April 1946. This study will show that Canadian relations with German civilians were, in part, an extension of relations with civilians in liberated countries, but were also something new altogether. At the beginning of the invasion of Germany, most Canadian soldiers did not wish to associate with Germans and followed a fraternization ban that had been put into effect. Canadians were more likely than American soldiers to believe in the ban. Soldiers were fed a propaganda campaign that told them all Germans were evil and needed to be punished for starting the war. As the invasion proceeded further into Germany, more Canadians realized that all Germans were not Nazis and began to fraternize with the ban still in place. In the Netherlands, where Canadians have been remembered as liberators, relations at times were also tense and bitter after the war ended. Canadians also had to deal with large number of Displaced Persons (DPs), who caused more headaches than German civilians for the occupation authorities.
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Buydens, Sarah Louise. "The lived experience of women veterans of the Canadian Forces." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1670.
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Research was conducted using hermeneutic-phenomenology and semi-structure interviews to explore and understand the lived experience of women veterans of the Canadian Forces. Women recently entered Canadian military combat positions, taking on a profession historically exclusively occupied by men. Due to the lack of research on women veterans of the Canadian Forces, knowledge was drawn from research about women in nontraditional work, American paramilitary and military occupations, as well as an historical review of women’s involvement in the Canadian Forces, to provide context to the research themes. Participants comprised of 6 women veterans who described 11 essential and 4 significant themes. Unique contributions to literature include essential themes such as, Slut or a lesbian, take your pick, Proving I’m good enough, Trying to be treated better, Got some support, Visible and singled out, Perpetual outsider, Given gender based tasks or opportunities, and Women demeaned. Suggestions for future studies and implications for counselling practice are discussed.
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Dubord, Denis Gerard. "Unseen enemies: an examination of infectious diseases and their influence upon the Canadian Army in two major campaigns during the First and Second World Wars." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3124.
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Twice during the first half of the twentieth century, on two separate and distinctly
unique wartime campaigns in Europe, the survival of Canadian overseas armies was
badly threatened not by enemy guns, but by the menace and ravages of an unseen enemy:
infectious disease.
Between the spring of 1915 and the fall of 1918, hundreds of thousands of
Canadian soldiers lived and fought in the trenches of the Western Front. The Canadian
Expeditionary Force (CEF) faced many tactical challenges in fighting this radical and unknown style of war in the trenches. There were also many medical challenges faced by the Canadian forces during this new era when they soon discovered that the trench
environment was highly conducive to the rapid development and spread of infectious
disease. In particular, pathogen carrying pests, such as body lice and rats, and
“mysterious” emerging diseases, such as trench fever, would become the bane of
existence for many Canadian soldiers. Life in the trenches would prove to be inherently
dangerous for reasons other than enemy fire.
Just two and one half decades later, during the Second World War, the Canadian
First Division, recently victorious in occupying Sicily, was decimated, not by its German or Italian foes but by an epidemic of the mosquito transmitted infectious disease of malaria. Anti-malaria measures and precautions were well known, but the Canadians would discover that both the application of these practices and the compliance of the rank and file could not be taken for granted.
This work examines the important influence disease vectors and infectious disease
had upon the lives and experiences of our soldiers, as well as the conduct and outcomes
of two important twentieth century military campaigns conducted by Canada’s army
between 1914 and 1945. In essence, this study will explore and analyze Canadian
attempts, both individual and corporate, to control, possibly defeat or at least come to
terms with, its most elusive and silent enemies on the field of battle – infectious diseases.
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Fitzgerald, Kyla. "An unjust execution: a case study of Inouye Kanao, the Kamloops Kid." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/12073.
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This thesis examines the legal case of Inouye Kanao, a second-generation Japanese Canadian who was executed for high treason in August 1947 in Hong Kong. In this thesis, I trace not only Inouye's legal case, but also his early life, the broader political context, diplomatic correspondence, and other war crimes cases. By employing race-thinking and Critical Race Theory as theoretical frameworks, I consider the role of race and racism and aim to better understand its influence on Inouye's legal case. In doing so, this thesis challenges previous narratives and misinformation about Inouye. I conclude that racism was a significant factor that affected all aspects of Inouye's case, resulting in an unjust execution that did not reflect the crimes. Ultimately, Inouye was executed not because of his actions but because he was racialized as a treacherous and cruel Japanese Canadian.Graduate
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Hall, Jennifer. "Agencification in Canada: pulling back the veil of arms-length government." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/12957.
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Governments around the world, including Canada, continue to look for new ways to structure themselves and deliver services to accommodate the growing challenges of governing in an increasingly complex global environment. One strategy is to hive off functions to arms-length entities. This continues to be a popular option for service delivery, consuming significant amounts of public resources with little understood about the implications on accountability, performance, transparency and cost. Distributing public governance by moving functions further out from the institutional centre of government has tended to make the public sector less visible. In Canada, there has been negligible critical analysis about the trend and its impacts, in particular, at the provincial level. This study addresses that gap by analyzing the use of arms-length entities over time in two provinces, British Columbia and Ontario. It empirically determines trends in agencification, explores the rationale for creation and use of arms-length entities, and contributes to a better understanding of the implications, impacts and challenges that continue to arise in distributing public governance.
The study uses a mixed methods approach relying on a quantitative analysis of jurisdictional data to describe changes in the agency landscape in British Columbia and Ontario over a 65 -year period from 1951 to 2016. The qualitative strategy uses 32 interviews of current and past government and agency executives to provide insights into the rationale for agency creation, relationships between government and its arms-length entities, the impacts on public sector governance, and the future of agencification. Document and literature reviews were conducted to support the analysis of both the quantitative and qualitative data.
Results show there has been a continued and statistically significant increase in the overall number of arms-length entities in both jurisdictions over time. Creation, though, ebbs and flows, and is not necessarily a reflection of political ideology or economic climate. However, political influence has not been eliminated with the establishment of governance frameworks for arms-length entities. Recognizing this, agencies have become more adept at reading political signals and building relationships with government that earn them trust and autonomy. The key findings of this study suggest that:
1. The governance structures in Canada continue, increasingly, to illustrate a broad range of arms-length entities to deliver a breadth of services and functions, with little consistency in the rationale and structure for their creation.
2. New governance controls and mechanisms are being implemented to address issues of performance, accountability and political brand as the shape of the public sector continues to evolve.
3. The independence of arms-length agencies is more myth than reality. Ultimately governments are accountable for their delegation of authority and this reality has and will continue to influence the relationship between government and its arms-length entities.
4. Individual personalities matter. Despite governance frameworks and mechanisms intended to prescribe the accountability relationship between government and arms-length entities, individuals on both sides of the relationship can have a significant impact on agency performance and viability.
All indications suggest that governments will continue to use arms-length agencies to deliver a variety of services using various organizational forms and inconsistent governance frameworks. In addition to agency creation, the reshaping of agencies through merger, re-categorization, mandate shifts, renaming, etc., will continue, as will the changing landscape of distributed public governance. The ability to design a governance framework that addresses the ongoing reshaping of government structure will need to evolve in order to address challenges with coordination, fragmentation, service delivery and accountability. To this end, governments have been rationalizing their governance systems, increasing their ability to control arms-length entities through a variety of mechanisms, including the creation of new “super agencies”. As the use of agencies continues, the governance environment becomes more complex with a greater number of actors, changes in government capacity and resourcing, and global, multi-level government systems in meeting public needs. Governance rationalization supports the need for increased focus on why and how governments re-shape themselves and how this impacts accountability and performance, providing new opportunities for further research as the shape of the public sector continues to evolve.Graduate
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Gillis, Erin S. "Stratigraphy of the Blow Me Down Brook formation, Humber Arm Allochthon, western Newfoundland, Canada /." 2006. http://collections.mun.ca/u?/theses,66243.
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Agostini, Thomas. ""Cousins in Arms" : experience and the formation of a British-American identity among regular and provincial soldiers during the Seven Years' War /." Diss., 2002. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3048942.
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