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“La fédération impériale, voilà notre ennemie”: Honoré Mercier and Public Opinion on Imperial Federalism as Seen Through the Montreal Press, 1885-1893

Scrosati, Scott

This thesis examines Québec Premier Honoré Mercier's (1887-1891) critique of imperial federalism from 1885-1893 and its impact on public opinion in Montreal by analysing press coverage. Hostility to imperial federalism was ...

A Laboratory of Social Policy: California, The New Right and the Gubernatorial Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1967-1975

Catney, Ryan

The traditional historiographical narrative locates the revival of grassroots conservatism in the postwar decades, the subsequent reemergence of conservatives in mainstream American politics by the mid 1970s and the ...

Leonard Woolf and the Politics of Reason in Interwar Britain

Butler, Lise (2010-09-09)

This thesis is an examination of the role of reason in the thought of the left-leaning writer, publisher, editor and journalist Leonard Woolf. Examining Woolf’s response to political radicalization and impending international ...

Livelihood Strategies of Dock Workers in Durban, c. 1900-1959

Callebert, Ralph Frans (2011-09-27)

This dissertation examines the livelihood strategies of African dock workers in Durban, South Africa, between the Anglo-Boer War and the 1959 strikes. These labourers did not conform to common conceptions of radical dock ...

Making Home: Performance, Sociability, and Identity in St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1810-1860.

Duffett, Angela

St. John’s, Newfoundland underwent an economic and cultural transformation in the early nineteenth century. With a growing year-round resident population, and mercantile operations increasingly headquartered out the town, ...

Making the scene : Yorkville and Hip Toronto, 1960-1970

Henderson, Stuart Robert (2007-10-03)

For a short period during the 1960s Toronto’s Yorkville district was found at the centre of Canada’s youthful bohemian scene. Students, artists, hippies, greasers, bikers, and “weekenders” congregated in and around the ...

"The Manner of Conferring and Treating with Them": The Board of Trade, the 1730 Anglo-Cherokee Treaty, and the Confluence of Global British Treaty Practices

Carley, Georgia (2015-10-06)

In the summer of 1730, the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations (the Board of Trade) determined to make a treaty with seven Cherokee delegates who were then in London, England. Drawing on their experiences and ...

The Many Ways to Evaluate Income Taxes: Canadian Income Tax Compliance with Attention to Surplus Stripping: 1917-1972

Scarlett, Diane

This study of the relationship between the Canadian taxpayer and the income tax regime examines the manner in which the federal income tax, first established by Finance Minister Sir Thomas White of the Robert Borden ...

Married Women, Crime, and Questions of Liability in England, 1640-1760

Caswell, Marisha (2012-02-23)

Upon marriage, women in early modern England became subject to the common law doctrine of coverture. Coverture had a number of consequences, all of which stemmed from a married woman’s lack of independent legal identity. ...

Marrying a Redcoat: Women's Experiences of Marriage in the British Garrison of Quebec City, 1763-1820

Angers, Severine

In 1763, following the Treaty of Paris, Quebec City officially became a major British garrison. As a result, there was a constant and substantial presence of Anglophone and Protestant young men, the majority of them single, ...

Memory, Childhood, and the Creation of Identities and Difference: Examining International Evacuation from Britain to Canada, 1938-1945.

Wyse, Emma

Between 1939 and 1945, Canada welcomed more than 10,000 British guest children into the country to escape the threats to their safety posed by the Battle of Britain and by German hostilities generally. For these children, ...

A Methodological Reconsideration of Early English-Indigenous Communication in Sixteenth Century Northeastern America

Renaud, Tabitha

In August 1576 five men serving the Elizabethan explorer Martin Frobisher disappeared following an Inuk guide at Baffin Island. Over the next two years the English tried various methods of communication with the Inuit – ...

Migration and its Impact on the Household: Medieval Valencia after the Black Death Plague, 1348-1453

MacKechnie, Johan

The 1348 Black Death Plague killed at least twenty percent of Valencia’s population, and the effects were devastating: reduced reproduction, raised mortality, massive shifts in migration, intense growth in city population, ...

(Mis-)Understanding Anti-Semitism and Jewish Identity: From Bernard Lazare to Hannah Arendt

Jissov, Milen G. (2009-04-17)

This study examines the responses of European intellectuals since the 1880s to an increasingly virulent and organized anti-Semitism in Europe, and the ways in which they sought to understand the character and origins of ...

Mother Russia and the Socialist Fatherland: Women and the Communist Party of Canada, 1932-1941, with specific reference to the activism of Dorothy Livesay and Jim Watts

Butler, Nancy Ellen (2010-12-01)

This dissertation traces a shift in the Communist Party of Canada, from the 1929 to 1935 period of militant class struggle (generally known as the ‘Third Period’) to the 1935-1939 Popular Front Against Fascism, a period ...