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Journal articles on the topic "Canadian diaries"

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Revington, Robert. "How Dorothy L. Sayers Helped the Prime Minister of Canada Rally His Country before D-Day." Journal of Inklings Studies 11, no. 2 (2021): 153–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ink.2021.0112.

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In May 1944, Dorothy L. Sayers exchanged letters and had a phone conversation with William Lyon Mackenzie King, the prime minister of Canada. Sayers's letter made such an impression on King that he saw mystical and prophetic significance in its arrival and used it in a speech he gave in the Canadian House of Commons. This study uses the digitised archives of King's diaries and the parliamentary records of his speech, as well as Canadian media accounts from the time. It will be shown that Sayers played an underappreciated role in helping the Canadian prime minister rally his country during the war, as the speech that used her letter met with acclaim across the political spectrum and received positive notice in Canadian newspapers. In the weeks leading up to D-Day, Sayers played an integral role in building up the morale of Canada's prime minister, as he endeavoured to inspire his country. Finally, King's diaries offer first-hand testimony of how one important contemporary figure reacted to the radio broadcasts of The Man Born to Be King, as he particularly enjoyed Sayers's portrayal of the masculinity of Jesus.
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Arango, Carlos A., Dylan Hogg, and Alyssa Lee. "WHY IS CASH (STILL) SO ENTRENCHED? INSIGHTS FROM CANADIAN SHOPPING DIARIES." Contemporary Economic Policy 33, no. 1 (2014): 141–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/coep.12066.

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Shipley, Heather, Pamela Young, and Ian Cuthbertson. "Religion, Gender, and Sexuality among Youth in Canada." Bulletin for the Study of Religion 45, no. 1 (2016): 17–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v45i1.29924.

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Since 2012, we have been investigating Religion, Gender and Sexuality among Youth (18-25 year olds) in Canada (RGSY). Ours is a mixed-methods study that has used a web-based survey, interviews, and video diaries to collect data from 486 Canadian youth. Our project maps onto research that was done in the United Kingdom by Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, Sarah-Jane Page, and Michael Keenan. They kindly offered to let us use and modify their questionnaire for our own web-based survey and now we are at the point of having some interesting international comparisons. As well, researchers in several other countries are beginning similar studies.
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Heath, Gordon L. "The Wartime Diaries of Canadian Baptist Military Chaplain William A. White, 1917–1918." Baptist Quarterly 49, no. 4 (2017): 165–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0005576x.2017.1343915.

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Richling, Barnett. "An Anthropologist’s Apprenticeship: Diamond Jenness’ Papuan and Arctic Fieldwork." Culture 9, no. 1 (2021): 71–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1080894ar.

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Diamond Jenness (1886-1969) was a major figure in Canadian anthropology during the first half of the century. This paper provides some biographical-historical details of his early career, concentrating on major fieldwork in Papua New Guinea in 1912, and in northern Alaska and Canada’s Coronation Gulf region between 1913 and 1916. Relying mainly on Jenness’ unpublished field diaries and personal correspondence, it identifies links between his work in the south Pacific and the Arctic, and examines the source of prominent themes that found expression during his later professional career. Particular attention is given to the three years Jenness served as a member of Stefansson’s Canadian Arctic Expedition, and to his role in accomplishing the Expedition’s anthropological objectives.
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Gawley, Tim. "Using Solicited Written Qualitative Diaries to Develop Conceptual Understandings of Sleep." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 17, no. 1 (2018): 160940691879425. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1609406918794255.

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This article presents the use of the solicited written qualitative sleep diary as a method for understanding sleep experience. The article reviews selected quantitative and qualitative research to contextualize contemporary sleep circumstances and concerns. It continues with a summary of previous diary applications in social scientific sleep research. The article then outlines the diary template, data collection procedures, and sampling. Diaries were received from a sample of 48 university students at a Canadian university campus who enrolled in a fourth-year course on sleep and society. The method’s analytical potential is highlighted by student accounts that construct meanings of sleep around academic accomplishments which are conceptualized as “rituals of obligation.” Students interpret sleep as a shutting off from ritual obligation. “Shut off” is observed in four ways: personalized management techniques, calendar rhythmicity, introspective bargaining, and the sleep fritter. The methodological discussion of the sleep diary echoes previously articulated observations about the method while offering additional strengths, precautions, and possibilities relating to the diary’s trustworthiness as a prioritized data collection method. The solicited written qualitative sleep diary benefits from its access and flexibility of participation, the encouragement of creative expression, the adoption of incentives and support mechanisms, and research reflexivity.
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Mandziuk, Madalyn. "Finding "Miss Canada"." Constellations 14, no. 1 (2023): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/cons29494.

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During the First World War, many Canadian women served on the front lines as nurses, both as working professionals and volunteers. Although the experiences of Canadian women during WWI have been addressed by historians more frequently in recent decades, the experience of professional nurses has been overshadowed by that of Volunteer Aid Detachment nurses (VADs) and women on the home front and of course by studies on soldiers’ experiences. Many historians have found the personal narrative, diary, or journal to be an invaluable source to understanding the First World War. However, there is a gap in the study of the personal narratives, diaries, and journals of Canadian professional nurses specifically. This paper seeks to bridge this gap in WWI history through a specific focus on a selection of the surviving personal papers of Canadian professional nurses. Their personal writings reveal new insights into nursing experience on the front, nursing work, and how Canadian professional nurses sought and found meaning in extraordinary and violent circumstances. They made sense of the war through sociability, relationality, and through recording their time overseas both to cope with the experience itself, and to remember it upon their return home.
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Marshall, Alison R. "Followers of the Dao of the Bible." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 44, no. 2 (2015): 135–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0008429815580782.

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Studies of pre-1950s Chinese Canadian Christianity have tended to occlude Chinese perspectives and experiences for a number of reasons, including a lack of sources. Drawing on largely unpublished Chinese and English source materials including scrapbooks, correspondence, reports, membership rosters, marriage, funeral and clergy records, Chinese nationalist registers, diaries, oral histories, photographs and material culture, this article investigates Chinese experiences of Canadian Presbyterian missionary work in Victoria, Cumberland, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal between 1896 and 1950. By examining the personal archival materials of Ma Seung, Frank Chan and Ernest Mark, and era-specific Chinese political involvements and fieldwork data, this article challenges previous simplistic understandings of the Chinese missionary experience that were based solely on the perspectives of mainstream Christian institutions and society. This article emphasizes the Chinese context and concepts such as the dao, efficacy ( ling), and affect ( renqing, or human sentiments) that guided relationships and faith in early Chinese Canada. It aims to provide a more complicated understanding of why Chinese ministers chose to Christianize fellow Chinese, and why before 1950 many Chinese chose to be nominal Christians and only a small number converted.
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Sedwick, Alleah. "Depleted Nerves." Mirror - Undergraduate History Journal 44, no. 1 (2024): 66–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5206/mirror.v44i1.17093.

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This essay explores the impact of shell-shock on individual soldiers, the collective understanding of wartime trauma during and after the First World War, and the discourse of mental health in the medical field and public sphere. Additionally, it aims to identify when the discourse of psychological trauma began to shift toward more contemporary understandings of mental health. In order to draw out the voices of Canadian soldiers who were not able to openly discuss their emotions due to the stigmatisation surrounding shell-shock, this study will utilise various sources such as soldier diaries, battalion orders, and the Library and Archives of Canada database. Moreover, this essay aims to uncover how shell-shock was suppressed by wartime officials and those with the power to appropriately aid soldiers inflicted with shell-shock. In order to search for the reticence and silence of shell-shock, I examine the censorship of soldiers' experiences on the homefront, the secrecy surrounding war-related trauma in the general public, and the hyper-masculinized attitudes within battalions that viewed shell-shock symptoms as a manifestation of mental weakness. While I focus primarily on Canadian soldiers during World War I within this essay, it is acknowledged that all soldiers, hospital staff, and those affected by the war were susceptible to various forms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Bouzo, Valerie, Hugues Plourde, Hailee Beckenstein, and Tamara R. Cohen. "Evaluation of the Diet Tracking Smartphone Application Keenoa™: A Qualitative Analysis." Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research 83, no. 1 (2022): 25–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3148/cjdpr-2021-022.

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Keenoa™ is a novel Canadian diet application (app) currently used by Canadian dietitians to collect diet-related data from clients. The goal of this study was to evaluate Keenoa™ based on user feedback and compare it to a conventional pen and paper method. One hundred and two participants were recruited and randomly assigned to record their diets using this application for 3 nonconsecutive days. Following this, participants were invited to complete an online “exit” survey. Seventy-two subjects responded, with 50 completing an open-ended question asking for general feedback about the app. Data were reviewed and 3 main themes emerged: strengths, challenges, and future recommendations. Strengths associated with the app consisted of picture recognition software, the additional commentary feature, and the overall pleasant data collection process. Challenges that were identified included inconsistencies with the barcode scanning features, the limited food database, time to enter food details, and software issues. Future recommendations included using a larger food database, pairing dietary intake with physical activity monitoring, and having accessible nutritional data. Despite these limitations, participants preferred using mobile apps to record diet compared with traditional written food diaries.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Canadian diaries"

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St-Laurent, Suzanne. "Pour une approche narratologique du journal intime : le Journal de Katherine Mansfield." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0019/NQ46690.pdf.

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Carter, Kathryn. "A contingency of words, diaries in English by women in Canada, 1830-1915." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq22961.pdf.

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Herrmann-Kuepper, Gisela. "Else Seel and the tradition of pioneer women's diaries in Canada: Genre, experience, culture." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/10341.

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Kanadisches Tagebuch [Journal canadien] écrit par Else Seel a été publié en Allemagne en 1964 par une maison d'édition peu connue. Le livre est écrit en allemand et, comme le suggère le titre, est un journal littéraire. Il relate 24 ans de la vie d'une immigrante allemande qui, au début du siècle, s'est établie, tout comme d'autres colons, dans les régions sauvages de la Colombie-Britannique. Non seulement c'est l'oeuvre la plus importante d'Else Seel mais c'est aussi un des exemples les plus significatifs de la littérature canadienne-allemande. Dans le cadre de la littérature canadienne, cette étude examine le journal d'Else Seel en visant trois contextes importants: la fonction des éléments génériques de la littérature personnelle, tout particulièrement du journal littéraire, la portée de l'expérience "canadienne," spécialement l'expérience de la "frontière" entre la civilisation et les régions sauvages, et finalement l'importance de la perspective féminine à travers le moi éprouvant et le moi se racontant. La recherche s'effectue en différentes étapes. Premièrement on définit le genre spécifique du journal par rapport à la littérature personnelle en général. Ce processus requiert l'identification de certains traits distinctifs du genre littéraire en terme de catégories telles le temps raconté et le temps narratif, la position de l'auteur dans l'espace, la focalisation du moi ou de la réalité et, enfin, le lecteur à qui le genre est adressé. La différence entre le mode mimétique et le mode diégétique de présentation s'avère particulièrement important lorsque le genre est rendu fictif.
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Bölling, Gordon. "History in the making : Metafiktion im neueren anglokanadischen historischen Roman /." Heidelberg : Winter, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2832122&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.

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Forster, Merna. "Through the eyes of immigrants : an analysis of diaries and letters of immigrants arriving at Grosse-Île and the port of Quebec, 1832-42." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/28564.

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"The dryland diaries." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2014-09-1704.

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The Dryland Diaries is a multigenerational narrative in the epistolary style, a tale of four women, central character Luka; her mother Lenore; grandmother Charlotte; and great-grandmother Annie – cast in the Quebecoise tradition of the roman du terroir, invoking place and family, the primal terroir of a storyteller. The novel is driven by three acts of violence – the possible murder of Annie’s husband, Jordan, by her Hutterite father; the rape of Charlotte; and the probable murder of Lenore by a notorious serial killer. Set in rural Saskatchewan and Vancouver, Luka, a single mother, finds Annie’s and Charlotte’s journals in the basement of her farm home, where both her predecessors also lived. She reads their stories while attempting to come to terms with her search for her missing mother, and with her attraction to her former flame, Earl, now married. Luka learns that Jordan disappeared shortly after the Canadian government enacted conscription for farmers in the First World War, when Annie became a stud horsewoman, her daughter Charlotte born before the war ended. Letters and newspaper clippings trace the family’s life through the drought and Great Depression; then Charlotte’s diaries reveal her rape at Danceland during the Second World War. Her daughter, Lenore, grows up off-balance emotionally, and abandons her daughters. Luka returns to Vancouver and learns her mother’s fate. Told from Luka’s point of view, in first-person narrative with intercutting diary excerpts and third-person narratives, the novel examines how violence percolates through generations. It also examines how mothers influence their children, the role of art, how the natural world influences a life, and questions our definition of “home.” At its heart, the novel is a story about what makes a family a family, about choices we make toward happiness, and about how violence perpetuates itself through the generations. Inspired by Margaret Lawrence’s The Stone Angel, Carol Shields’ The Stone Diaries, and the place-particular writing of Annie Proulx and Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Dryland Diaries paints a family portrait of loss, hope and redemption, locating it on the boundaries of historical fiction, firmly within the realm of epistolary and intergenerational narrative.
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Randall, Mark. "Reflections of war: changes in tactics and technology in the diaries and memoirs of Canadian soldiers 1916-1918." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/915.

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The Great War was in many ways a conflict defined by technology. The rapid advancements in technology over the decades leading up to 1914 coupled with the outdated tactics employed by all sides created the stalemate of Trench Warfare. Improvements to the existing technology, the addition of new technology, as well as an evolution in tactics led to the breakout, and eventual Allied victory, of 1918. These changes in tactics and technology significantly affected the lives of frontline soldiers. This thesis asks if the tactical and technological changes, in the final two years of the war, were reflected in diaries and memoirs of Canadian soldiers serving at the front. The diaries and memoirs of the soldiers do reflect many of the changes found in the secondary sources. Surprisingly, however, the primary sources often provide more detail about how these weapons were employed by the Germans. Unless the soldier in question was directly involved in their use, or was witnessing a spectacular event, accounts of Canadian artillery, machine gun and poison gas use are often short and lacking in detail.
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Robinson, Julia Margaret. "The role of journal writing in initiating reflection on practice of tutors in a college learning centre." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3776.

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A discrepancy appears to exist between the value placed on reflective journal writing by the writers of journals and the value seen by educators of that same journal writing. In this study, I explored the journal writing of six tutors working in a learning centre at a two-year community college in western Canada. I examined: (1) tutors' perspectives on the journal writing task; (2) the content and reflectivity of tutors' journals; and, (3) the accuracy of the journals in representing tutor thinking initiated by the journal writing task. The initial data collection for the study included observation of weekly in-service training sessions and examination of tutor journal entries. Tutors were interviewed about their perceptions of journal writing and their thinking around issues they wrote about in their journals. The tutor trainer was interviewed about his expectations of tutor journal writing, his reactions to tutors' journals and his perceptions of the journal writing task. After the initial data collection, the participants were given summaries of data collected in the initial phase. Tutors read the summaries and as a group discussed issues raised by the data. I interviewed the trainer about insights he had gained from the summaries. Content choices and levels of reflectivity in the tutors' journals varied widely. Factors affecting the content and levels of reflection in the tutors' journals were affected by tutors’ understanding of the journal writing task, their motivation for journal writing, their feelings of vunerability, their personal histories, their tutoring experience, their preference for writing as a mode of learning, and their purposes for writing journals. Most tutors perceived their journals as useful to them, but the tutor trainer regarded the journals as less useful. This difference in perception of the benefits of journal writing can be attributed, at least in part, to the differing levels of access of the trainer and the tutors to the benefits of journal writing. The trainer based his understanding of the benefits of journal writing on the journals themselves whereas the tutors were aware of benefits that were not apparent from studying the journals. Interviews with the tutors showed that tutors reflected more as a result of the journal writing task than was evident from their journals. The trainer’s view of the reflection initiated by the journal writing task was obscured in tutors’ journals due to the fact, that tutors reported prior reflection, provided incomplete representation of their reflective thinking, made rhetorical choices which masked their levels of reflection, and continued to reflect after completion of journal entries. Implications of the study for educators include the importance of a process approach to journal writing, the risks of assuming that journals provide an accurate picture of the reflection the task initiates, and factors for consideration in the construction of the prompt for journal writing. Implications for researchers focus on the risks of assuming that journals provide an accurate measure of the benefits of the journal writing task. Collaboration with journal writers is seen as essential for any such measure to be achieved.
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Bridge, Kathryn Anne. "Being young in the country: settler children and childhood in British Columbia and Alberta, 1860-1925." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4108.

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This dissertation demonstrates that the voices of children and the experiences of childhood provide important new perspectives about the settler societies in British Columbia and Alberta during the period 1860 – 1925. It employs a combination of direct quotations from individual children and analysis across the cohort of one hundred historical children as a means to explore both individual personalities and shared child perspectives of childhood. Child-created diaries and correspondence were selected as the principal documentation in this study as a deliberate strategy to privilege children and to enable clear child-centred voices unmixed with those of adults. The intent is to reveal child-centred understandings about the physical and emotional aspects of growing up in Western Canada that are set within the contexts of specific communities, of family life, of sibling relationships, of friendships and separations. Some significant findings include the phenomenon of boarding school within the childhood experience and the realization that many settler children spent childhoods away from family, the difficulty boys shared in achieving masculinity, and the importance placed by girls and boys on charting and comparing their physical growth and attainment of child-centred milestones of achievement.<br>Graduate
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Books on the topic "Canadian diaries"

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Cowl, Nathaniel. Voice of a blind peasant: A diary from the Canadian woods (1985-1990). Snow Flea Pub., 1995.

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Ritchie, Joanne. Cartographies of silence: An annotated bibliography of diaries and reminiscences of New Brunswick women, 1783-1980. CRIAW/ICREF, 1997.

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Ritchie, Joanne. Cartographies of silence: An annotated bibliography of diaries and reminiscences of New Brunswick women, 1783-1980. CRIAW/ICREF, 1997.

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Pedneault, Hélène. Mon enfance et autres tragédies politiques: Journal intime et politique : nouvelles chroniques, 1984-2003. Lanctôt, 2004.

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Guay, Jean-Pierre. La mouche et l'alliance: Le journal, 24 fevrier-8 mai 1999. Les Herbes rouges, 1999.

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Guay, Jean-Pierre. Le cœur tremblant: Le journal, 29 décembre 1992-19 janvier 1993. Les Herbes rouges, 2001.

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Beauchemin, Yves. Du sommet d'un arbre: Journal. Québec/Amérique, 1986.

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Guay, Jean-Pierre. Bungalow: Le journal, 6 décembre 1993-17 janvier 1994. Les Herbes rouges, 1998.

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Guay, Jean-Pierre. Le miracle: Le journal, 16 février-11 mars 1993. Les herbes rouges, 2002.

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Claude, Jasmin. À cœur de jour: Journal, décembre 2001 à mars 2002. Éditions Trois-Pistoles, 2002.

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Book chapters on the topic "Canadian diaries"

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"CANADIAN DIARIES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES." In Canadian Diaries and Autobiographies. University of California Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.8306215.3.

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"Front Matter." In Canadian Diaries and Autobiographies. University of California Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.8306215.1.

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MATTHEWS, WILLIAM. "PREFACE." In Canadian Diaries and Autobiographies. University of California Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.8306215.2.

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"INDEX." In Canadian Diaries and Autobiographies. University of California Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.8306215.4.

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Riquet, Johannes. "From Insularity to Islandness." In The Aesthetics of Island Space. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832409.003.0004.

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Chapter 3 draws on (post-)phenomenology, ecocriticism, and Benoît Mandelbrot’s fractal geometry to examine a set of diaries and memoirs from the US–Canadian border region in the Pacific Northwest that express a permeable conception of islands and the islanded self. It argues that memoirs like Helene Glidden’s The Light on the Island (1951), Muriel Wylie Blanchet’s The Curve of Time (1961), and David Conover’s Once Upon an Island (1967) imagine islands as spaces inserted within larger ecological and geological continuities. Their reimagination of islands in multiple interconnectedness disrupts arbitrarily drawn political borders, yet they also have a tendency to construct a unified ecological landscape with its own exclusions. Conversely, George Vancouver’s North Pacific journal—the foundational text for this chapter—and the geological diary of George Gibbs inadvertently offer a more radical island poetics: in these texts, the unfamiliar islandscapes aesthetically resist the cartographic drive to fix them.
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Caron, André H., Letizia Caronia, and Pascal Gagné. "Beyond Mobile Learning." In Mobile Technologies and Handheld Devices for Ubiquitous Learning. IGI Global, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-849-0.ch004.

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Contemporary research on mobile learning focuses mainly on issues such as the acquisition of knowledge, the development of cognitive skills and the efficiency of these tools with respect to the achievement of specific educational goals. Nonetheless, the consequences of the adoption of a technology within a learning context for educational purposes should not be reduced solely to the cognitive dimension implied in its use, nor should it be measured only in terms of goal achievement. Even if intended as purely educational tools, technologies are complex social objects that redefine the sense of the context, the activity and even the identity of the actors engaged in their use. When educational institutions adopt mobile information technologies they propose more than a supposedly efficient educational instrument or technology-formatted contents. They introduce a form of life. By form of life, we mean a repertoire of possible uses, actions, meanings and even intended actors that the users may adopt. A technology is then a condensed social context within which learning takes place. We might then ask, what kinds of learning are at stake? To grasp the richness and the complexity of the learning involved in using mobile information devices, we need a larger and holistic definition of learning that goes beyond simply acquiring knowledge on particular topics, or processing information for some formal educational purpose. Learning through mobile devices is a larger and complex process that involves different aspects of an individual’s psychological, cultural and social development. How does the use of an iPod affect the students’ identity? How does it contribute to the development of social skills and social awareness? Drawing on research involving 123 Canadian university students recruited from different disciplines (on the basis of data coming from diaries and focus groups), this chapter focuses on the multiple consequences of the introduction of this technology as an educational tool in students’ academic life.
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Campbell, Gail G. "Using Diaries to Explore the Shared Worlds of Family and Community in Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick." In Feminist History in Canada. University of British Columbia Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.59962/9780774826211-004.

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Shaikh, Fariha. "Introduction." In Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474433693.003.0001.

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During the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of men, women and children left Britain in search of better lives in the colonies of Canada, Australia and New Zealand and in North America. This demographic shift was also a textual enterprise. Emigrants wrote about their experiences in their diaries and letters. Their accounts were published in periodicals, memoirs and pamphlets. The Introduction argues that emigration literature set into circulation a new set of issues surrounding notions of home at a distance, a mediated sense of place, and the extension of kinship ties over time and space. Emigration produced a monumental shift in the way in which ordinary, everyday people in the nineteenth century, regardless of whether or not they emigrated, thought about relationships between text, travel and distance. Emigration literature has contributed to the shape of the modern world as we know it today, and it provides a rare insight into Victorian conceptualisations of globalization.
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