• Japanese “Entrepreneur” on the Fraser River: Oikawa Jinsaburo and the Illegal Immigrants of the Suian Maru 

  Sulz, David Kenneth Allan (2023-03-16)

  Oikawa Jinsaburo, Japanese entrepreneur, re-located to Canada from 1896 to 1917 and engaged in business enterprises, utopian communities on the Fraser River (Sunbury, Lion Island, Don Island), and immigration ventures. ...
• Reflexive clitics are verbal, not pronominal 

  McGinnis, Martha (Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 2022)

  I argue that reflexive clitics are not pronominal, but verbal. Cross-linguistically, reflexive clitics can realize either an unaccusative or an unergative Voice head, both of which allow anaphoric interpretations (as ...
• Supporting adult Syrian learners with refugee experience in Canada: Research-based insights for practitioners 

  Huang, Li-Shih (Journal of Education, 2022)

  From November 2015 to October 2020, Canada had welcomed 44,620 Syrian refugees to more than 350 communities across the country. In 2019, it further surpassed the United States and Australia in the number of refugees ...
• Identifying offcut zone parchment in medieval manuscripts 

  Lahey, Stephanie J. (ManuSciences, 2019)

  Medieval European book artisans sometimes recruited offcuts—flawed, irregular, lower-quality parchment scraps created as by-products of the parchment-making process—as writing support. Given the less desirable traits of ...
• "Strategies of Resistance and Subversion": The Politics and Writing of Jane Rule, 1960s-1980s 

  Hughes, Christine (2023-01-04)

  Jane Rule was a lesbian novelist and political commentator, whose debut novel Desert of the Heart represented one of the earliest lesbian romances in North America. The process of publishing both Desert of the Heart and ...
• Highlighting the Role of Traditional Spirituality in Independent Chinese Animation: Big Fish and Begonia 

  Wang, Chenxi (2022-12-19)

  Over the past two decades, Chinese independent animation has attracted much attention. The rise of Chinese independent animation is not only reflected in the expansion of its audience, but also in the depth and richness ...
• The Cultural Politics in East Germany and China: Literature and Art (1949-1979) 

  Ge, Liping (2022-12-16)

  East Germany and China, two modern socialist countries were established in 1949 during the Cold War era. The developments of socialism in these two countries were different: the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was ...
• Song of a Broken World: A Study on NieR: Automata's Presentation of Argument 

  Tan, Xinlyu (2022-11-24)

  This thesis examines NieR: Automata, a video game published in 2017 on PlayStation 4 from a narratological perspective to see how it composes its narrative elements to make an excellent argument about existence. The director ...
• Revenge is a genre best served old: Apocalypse in Christian Right literature and politics 

  Douglas, Christopher (Religions, 2021)

  Apocalypse is a phenomenology of disorder that entails a range of religious affects and experiences largely outside normative expectations of benevolent religion. Vindication, judgment, revenge, resentment, righteous ...
• A dictionary of Songish, a dialect of Straits Salish 

  Mitchell, Marjorie Ruth (2022-11-15)

  A dictionary format is used to present a body of lexical material collected primarily from one of the few remaining speakers of the Songish dialect of Straits Salish. Preliminary outlines of the phonological system and the ...
• Precursors and antecedents of the Anthropocene 

  Heyd, Thomas (Social Sciences, 2022)

  There seem to be two sorts of debates about precursors and antecedents to the Anthropocene. One concerns the question whether the concept of the Anthropocene was captured by earlier terms, such as “noösphere” or “the ...
• Rock sanctuaries, sacred landscapes, and the making of the Iberian pantheon 

  Sinner, Alejandro G.; Ferrer i Jané, Joan (Religions, 2022)

  Sanctuaries are common spaces of interaction between humankind and the gods. In many religious systems, mountains and other elevated topographical features are known to have formed part of these privileged spaces of ...
• Supporting B.C.’s expanding international education: The efficacy of academic reading strategy instruction among adult English-as-an-additional-language students 

  Khatri, Raj (2022-11-02)

  The enrolment of international students at Canadian institutions of higher learning has tripled to 318,153 in 2018/2019 from 101,304 in 2008/2009 (Statistics Canada, 2020). Similarly, the number of international students ...
• Segmental and prosodic evidence for property-by-property transfer in L3 English in Northern Africa 

  Archibald, John (Languages, 2022)

  In this paper, I argue in favour of property-by-property transfer in the third language acquisition of English by L1 Arabic and L2 French speakers in Northern Africa (Algeria and Tunisia) based on a reanalysis of previous ...
• Qallunology of an Arctic Whaling Encounter: An Inuk’s Transatlantic Voyage, 1839 to 1840 

  Pearce, Anne-Marie (2022-09-28)

  This thesis borrows the analytical framework of Qallunology to examine a nineteenth-century Arctic whaling encounter between Scottish whalers and an Inuk geographer: Inulluapik. This thesis analyzes the narrative, written ...
• Who is they? Pronoun use across time and social structure 

  Loughlin, Ayden T. (2022-09-26)

  Who uses they, and who can they be (or not be) used for? Singular they has been proscribed in formal grammars since the mid-18th century, yet it dates to at least the 14th century (Balhorn 2004; Curzan 2003), persevering ...
• The Ghost of the Balkans: Defining and Deconstructing “Balkanism” 

  Zec, Milan (2022-09-23)

  Whenever the Balkans becomes a topic of conversation or of serious political and intellectual discussion, the narrative always moves towards the apocalyptic and genocidal collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Out of the ...
• Malaria and Colonial Development Projects in India 1927–1935 

  Lessard, Kelsey (2022-09-21)

  The 1920s and 1930s were a period of rapid urban growth and intensive changes to rural Indian geography through the construction of irrigation project to increase agricultural output. The work of several key researchers ...
• “When I resisted him, I didn’t know what he’s going to do to me”: Jewish resistance to sexualized violence in Nazi forced labour, concentration, and death camps 

  Van Der Meer, Kästle (2022-09-09)

  Despite the recent rise in research concerning sexualized violence in the Holocaust, virtually no studies exist concerning the ways in which those who experienced sexualized violence in Nazi camps resisted such abuse. That ...
• Inuit, Tuberculosis, and Political Determinants of Health 

  Mrozewski, Josephine Catherine (2022-09-01)

  Tuberculosis is one of humanity's most ancient and deadly diseases. It is largely curable, but its long co-evolution with humans has given it distinctive characteristics that make it hard to control or eradicate. The ...

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