• Bankers and bomb makers: gender ideology and women's paid work in banking and munitions during the first world war in Canada 

  Street, Kori (2018-08-03)

  During the First World War, some Canadian women found themselves in new and unfamiliar environments, doing jobs apparently unavailable to them before the war. Many of those women were successful in the new opportunities ...
• Creating and recreating community: Hiroshima and Canada 1891-1941 

  Ayukawa, Michiko Midge (2018-07-31)

  This dissertation covers the political, economic, and social circumstances in Japan that led to the emigration from Hiroshima prefecture, and the lives and communities of these emigrants in Canada. It traces the gradual ...
• The evolution of Qur'anic hermeneutics in British India, 1857-1947 

  Bashir, Kamran (2018-07-03)

  Histories of tafsīr in South Asia have been mainly focused on identifying extant works of Qur’anic scholarship in the region. There are only a few academic works that explore the primary sources in detail. Surveys of the ...
• "These kind of flesh-flies shall not suck up or devour their husbands' estates:" married women's separate property rights in England, 1630-1835 

  Mercier, Courtenay (2018-06-18)

  During the long eighteenth century, married women in England were subject to the rules of coverture, which denied them a legal identity independent of their husbands and severely curtailed their acquisition, possession and ...
• Sporting multiculturalism: Toronto's postwar European immigrants, gender, diaspora, and the grassroots making of Canadian diversity 

  Fielding, Stephen (2018-04-30)

  This dissertation offers an alternative lens to understand Canada’s gradual embrace of multiculturalism. Scholars have typically “worked back” from Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s famous 1971 declaration to unearth the ...
• 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 ...

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