• Relationships between mineral nutrition, drought resistance and clone in Populus 

  Harvey, Helen Penelope Penny (2018-07-20)

  Effects of mineral nutrition on drought and cavitation resistance of poplars were examined in two sets of greenhouse-grown trees. First, two drought-sensitive and two drought-resistant hybrid clones of black cottonwood ...
• Tourism in an Andean community: negotiating inequality, gender, and change 

  Guelke, Karoline (2018-07-18)

  Tourism is one of the largest industries worldwide. Alternatively described as beneficial development or a force of cultural destruction, its effects are complex and its benefits rarely distributed evenly. This dissertation ...
• An enquiry into the neurochemical, neuroanatomical, and electrophysiological basis of benzodiazepine-induced spatial learning deficits in the rat 

  McNamara, Robert Keith (2018-07-04)

  Benzodiazepine (BZ) drugs, such as diazepam (Valium®) and chlordiazepoxide (Librium®), are widely prescribed for their sedative/anxiolytic properties but also impair mnemonic processes in both humans and animals. In the ...
• Values and participation in the physical sciences and engineering: a comparative study 

  George, Deborah Mary (2018-06-27)

  In two separate studies, with two different samples, relationships between values, and participation in the physical sciences and engineering or the humanities were investigated for university students. Overall differences ...
• Mapping the unmappable in indigenous digital cartographies 

  Becker, Amy (2018-05-01)

  This thesis draws on a community-engaged digital-mapping project with the Vancouver Island Coast Salish community of the Stz’uminus First Nation. In this paper, I discuss the ways in which conventional cartographic ...
• Cows in the Galápagos Islands: a study of cattle production at the Hacienda El Progreso 

  Riou-Green, Miranda (2018-04-30)

  This thesis explores the zooarchaeology of cattle management and production at the 19th-century Hacienda El Progreso, on San Cristóbal Island, Galápagos, Ecuador. Many cattle products were exported, including salted meat, ...
• Home and away: circular migration, mobile technology, and changing perceptions of home and community in deindustrial Cape Breton 

  McIntyre, Mark (2018-04-30)

  This thesis engages deindustrialization as a lived process and applies the concepts of precarity as they relate to communities navigating processes of deindustrialization. Through ethnographic interviews and participant ...
• Virtual reality and the clinic: an ethnographic study of the Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (The CAREN Research Study) 

  Perry, Karen-Marie Elah (2018-04-26)

  At the Ottawa Hospital in Ontario, Canada, clinicians use full body immersion virtual reality to treat a variety of health conditions, including: traumatic brain injuries, post- traumatic stress disorder, acquired brain ...
• Lithic technologies of the Discovery Islands: materials, stone tool production, and communities of skilled practitioners 

  Abbott, Callum William Filan (2018-04-26)

  This thesis explores the findings of a diachronic analysis of three lithic assemblages from Quadra Island, British Columbia. From this, insights flow about the genealogies of technological practice and communities of skilled ...
• Long-term use of fish and shellfish resources revealed through vibracore sampling at EjTa-13, Hecate Island, Central Coast, BC 

  Duffield, Seonaid Eileen Shute (2018-01-03)

  This Master’s research program was undertaken as part of the Hakai Ancient Landscapes Archaeology Project in Heiltsuk and Wuikinuxv Territories on the Central Pacific Coast of British Columbia (BC), Canada. The project ...
• Hunger in households of plenty: Indonesian domestic workers navigating towards food security in Singapore 

  Mohammed, Charlene (2017-12-22)

  In Southeast Asia, many impoverished Indonesian women migrate to Singapore to work as domestic workers in households. Though employers are required to provide domestic workers with food and housing, there have been numerous ...
• Using GIS modelling as a tool to search for late Pleistocene and early Holocene archaeology on Quadra Island, British Columbia 

  Vogelaar, Colton (2017-12-20)

  The archaeological sites that inform the hypothesized coastal route of entry to the Americas are limited, with fewer than twenty sites older than 11,500 years before present on the Northwest Coast of North America. Late ...
• Exploring the sexual lives and sexual health of transnational Filipino youth in southwestern British Columbia, Canada 

  Serpa-Francoeur, Jenny Rose (2017-12-19)

  This research addresses how transnational Filipino youth living in southwestern British Columbia negotiate their sexual lives and sexual health decisions, and how they do so within the context of individual, familial, and ...
• The SWELSWÁLET of the W̱SÁNEĆ Nation: narratives of a “nation (re)building process” 

  Fritz, Justin (2017-12-07)

  In this Master’s thesis, I document my experience working with members of the W̱SÁNEĆ Nation in their efforts to revitalize the reef net fishery. As part of this research project, I interviewed W̱SÁNEĆ community members, ...
• Aspects of communities of practice among emerging German Swiss folk musicians 

  Specker, Sharonne K. (2017-09-08)

  In this thesis, I explore the dynamics of German Swiss folk music today in relation to the emerging musicians who have been involved in a folk music post-secondary program in recent years. Approaching the field as a community ...
• Allies or subjects? Shifting Canada-indigenous political relations from Treaty Six to the Electoral Franchise Act 

  Hazelbower, Joshua (2017-09-08)

  This thesis considers the differences in the political relationship between Canada and Indigenous peoples as established in Treaty Six (1876) by Alexander Morris and that of the Indian Act (1876) as driven by David Laird ...
• Hul'qumi'num peoples in the Gulf Islands: re-storying the Coast Salish landscape 

  Abramczyk, Ursula (2017-08-30)

  A negotiated, cooperative co-management arrangement between six Coast Salish First Nations and Parks Canada has created an opportunity for Hul’qumi’num peoples to “re-story” a colonized landscape in the southern Gulf Islands ...
• The exhibition landscape of human rights in Canada: an ethnographic study into process and design 

  Robinson, Jennifer Claire (2017-08-30)

  As places where multiple cultures, faiths, and artistic practices come together, museums exist as physical sites of intersection. They are at once sites of debate, dialogue, protest, and partnership. This intersection ...
• Exploring handaxe function at Shishan Marsh – 1: combining qualitative and quantitative approaches using the edge damage distribution method 

  Murray, John K. (2017-08-25)

  Handaxes are some of the longest lasting and most iconic stone tools throughout human evolution. Appearing in the early Pleistocene, these bifacially flaked tools persisted around one and a half million years and span ...
• The relationship between proximal long bone shape and activity among four hunter-gatherer populations. 

  Meyers, Julia Luba (2017-08-25)

  There is an understanding among biological anthropologists that long bone epiphyseal shape is highly regulated by genetic and biomechanical factors. Conversely, long bone diaphyseal geometry and robusticity have been shown ...

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