• A "Colony of Unrequited Dreams"? Settler colonialism and the failed-settlement narrative in the Ottawa-Huron Tract, 1850-1910 

  Murray, Derek (2018-04-18)

  In the 1850s, the government of Canada West initiated a project to colonize a vast region of the Canadian Shield known as the Ottawa-Huron Tract. Later, in his influential interpretation, Arthur Lower argued the myth of ...
• Death, burial and mutuality : A study of popular funerary customs in Cumbria, 1700-1920 

  Callaghan, Brenda Doreen (2018-02-05)

  This thesis investigates the impact of modernisation upon popular death customs in Cumbria between 1700 and 1920. Specifically, it explores the role and nature of mutuality, arguing that despite the growth of individualism, ...
• Tsemsyaenhl-get: sixteen battles in the military history of the nine allied Tsimshian tribes 

  Buddenhagen, Jeremy (2018-02-02)

  There is a deeply held bias in Northwest Coast scholarly literature that suggests pre-contact Indigenous warfare was primarily made up of simplistic nighttime sneak attacks to raid for slaves or treasure. This thesis ...
• “Go back to the capital and stay there”: the mining industry’s resistance to regulatory reform in British Columbia 1972-2005 

  Addie, Sean C. (2018-01-19)

  The Barrett (1972-1975) and Harcourt-Clark (1991-2001) New Democratic Party (NDP) governments attempted to redefine their relationship with the mining industry by changing the regulatory structures that governed mining in ...
• Success and failure in British Columbia's softwood plywood industry, 1913 to 1999 

  Griffin, Robert Brian (2018-01-15)

  British Columbia's plywood industry between 1913 and 1935 bore little relationship to the industry of the post-World War II period. In 1913, the Canadian Western Lumber Company's Fraser Mills plant manufactured Douglas fir ...
• The Bird Commission, Japanese Canadians, and the challenge of reparations in the wake of state violence 

  Findlay, Kaitlin (2018-01-09)

  The Royal Commission on Japanese Claims (1947-1951), known as the “Bird Commission,” investigated and offered compensation to Japanese Canadians for their losses of property during the 1940s. It is largely remembered for ...
• Far Eastern tour : the experiences of the Canadian infantry in Korea, 1950-53 

  Watson, Brent Byron (2017-12-08)

  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, ...
• The rise and fall of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1945-1964 : a critical study of the senior leadership, policy and manpower management 

  Lund, Wilfred Gourlay Dolphin (2017-12-01)

  This study examines how well the senior leadership of the Royal Canadian Navy managed the personnel component of its post-World War II expansion from 1945 to 1964. It challenges the popular myth that the Royal Canadian ...
• An ethnic coalition: the Liberal Party of Canada and the engagement of ethnocultural communities, 1959-1974 

  Falconer, Thirstan (2017-11-30)

  During the 1960s and 1970s the Liberal Party of Canada sought to engage ethnocultural communities in an effort to win federal elections. The author argues that the Liberal Party’s relationship with ethnocultural communities ...
• Activists in the age of rights : the struggle for human rights in Canada, 1945-1960 

  Lambertson, Ross (2017-11-02)

  From 1945 to 1960 Canada began to move into what has been called “the age of rights.” At the end of the Second World War the nation paid lip service to “British liberties,” but both the state and private individuals ...
• The United Farmers and farm women of Alberta : the development of a movement, 1909-1921 

  Rennie, Bradford James (2017-10-19)

  This study examines the emergence and evolution of the United Farmers and Farm Women of Alberta (UFA/UFWA) through three stages: the “movement forming,” the “movement building,” and the “movement policizing.” It argues ...
• Living well through story: land and narrative imagination in indigenous-state relations in British Columbia 

  Harvey, Megan (2017-09-06)

  Students of colonialism know well that the stories we tell have the capacity to make, maintain, or transform our relationships as well as our material futures. As earlier work has shown, Indigenous and settler peoples ...
• Evelyn Cameron: a study in three parts of her photography, diary, and life in Montana 

  Van Genderen, Kate (2017-09-05)

  Evelyn Jephson Cameron (1868-1928) was born to a wealthy merchant family outside London. At the age of twenty-five, she moved to Terry, Montana to raise horses and homestead with her husband, Ewen Cameron. Evelyn Cameron ...
• (Im)permanent body ink: the fluid meanings of tattoos, deviance, and normativity in twentieth-century American culture 

  Fabiani, Christina (2017-08-31)

  This thesis examines the symbiotic relationship between the meanings of tattoos and social norms through a comparative analysis of three distinct periods in twentieth-century American history. I use extensive archival ...
• Psychiatry and eugenics: the classification and diagnosis of female patients in British Columbia’s psychiatric institutions, 1918-1933 

  Fehr, Paige (2017-08-31)

  Between 1918 and 1933, the eugenic notion of “defective heredity” was central to psychiatric practice in British Columbia. Public and medical professionals’ concerns were heightened by an apparent increase in “insane” and ...
• Chaos and confusion: British oversight of Russian repatriations in postwar southern Austria 

  Miskulin, Matthew (2017-08-30)

  In 1945, as the Second World War ended, British troops serving under 5 Corps in southern Austria encountered a number of critical problems which hindered their ability to occupy the region and enact the policy of repatriation ...
• The anatomy of panic: the impact of naval scares and public opinion in late nineteenth-century Britain 

  O'Shea, Iain (2017-08-29)

  Popular navalism in nineteenth-century Britain was a natural but not inevitable outcome of the geographical reality of an island nation possessing a large maritime empire. The long-term evolution of democracy and the rapid ...
• Protesting smoke: a social and political history of Vancouver air pollution 

  Thiessen, Lee (2017-08-25)

  This thesis examines social and political responses to poor air quality in Vancouver, British Columbia from the 1950s through the early 1970s. Businesses dependent on local markets, the City of Vancouver and medical health ...
• Online corruption-reporting, internet censorship, and the limits of responsive authoritarianism 

  Hoskins, Jack (2017-08-22)

  This thesis traces the development of the Chinese government’s attempts to solicit corruption reports from citizens via online platforms such as websites and smartphone applications. It argues that this endeavour has proven ...
• The potato and the nail: reading the Fort Langley Post journals and Europeanization on the banks of the Fraser River 1827-1830 

  Gow, Ezekiel Hart (2017-08-22)

  This thesis examines through a micro-historical lens the establishment of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Fort Langley and its early period (1827-1830) covered by the surviving post journals. Through a close reading and analysis ...

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