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The facilitation of spiritual connection for the First Nations’ people of British Columbia: a critical incident analysisChristopher, Ada 05 1900 (has links)
Limited research has been conducted into First Nations' healing, particularly
in the area of First Nations' spiritual connection. First Nations' spiritual connection is
perceived to be important from a counselling perspective.
The intent of this study was to construct a fairly comprehensive guide of what
helps and what hinders spiritual connection among members of British Columbia's
(BC's) First Nations, through a First Nations' voice.
Eleven adult members of First Nations living in BC were interviewed to obtain
information in the form of critical incidents regarding what helps or what hinders
spiritual connection. From these interviews, 29 categories were described as what
helped or hindered spiritual connection. These are: ceremonial activities, Elder's
teachings/guidance, establishing a connection with nature, prayer, family
connection, changing thinking, spiritual beliefs, supernatural experiences, residential
school, helping others, seeking help, dreams, role model, spiritual practices, self
awareness/self acceptance, receiving your name, cultural preservation/ reclamation,
sacred object, First Nations' traditional beliefs, alcoholism and drug recovery,
visions, establishing social connection, creative activity, philosophy of life, joining
organized religion, teachings/guidance, cultural connection/cultural awareness,
relationship to the Creator, speaking a traditional First Nations' language.
The findings of this study contribute to the field of counselling psychology by
providing a reasonably comprehensive scheme of categories and themes that
describe, from a First Nations' perspective what facilitates spiritual connection.
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Grandview greenway : an investigation of ecological enhancement & stormwater management as a means of connection in an urban environmentStewart, Greg 05 1900 (has links)
Greenways are linear open spaces, sometimes called "Green Links" which connect parks,
Nature preserves, cultural features, historic sites, neighbourhoods, schools and shopping
areas. They are often located along either natural corridors like ocean fronts, rivers,
stream valleys, ridgelines, or built landscapes such as rail rights-of-way converted to
recreational use, canals, trails, scenic roads, lanes or dedicated or shared streets. In the
city of Vancouver there is a great opportunity to establish a link between Trout Lake,
located in East Vancouver, and False Creek, located in the heart of Vancouver. The
mission for this thesis project is to design a greenway connecting Trout Lake to False
Creek with special focus on ecological enhancement and stormwater management.
The Route itself has already received citywide support in City Plan approved in 1995.
The Greenway, as indicated in the report, will connect Trout Lake to False Creek via the
Grandview Cut. With city policy supporting the greenway, the bulk of the thesis is
incorporating ecological enhancement and stormwater management into the design.
Stormwater from the Trout Lake watershed will be brought to the surface, cleaned
through biofiltration by wetlands, and used to sustain a stream, which flows year round to
False Creek. By design the stream will be able to support a number of fish habitat, such
as Coastal Cutthroat, Coho Salmon, and the endangered Salish Sucker, to name a few.
As the Greenway reaches False Creek Flats there is an opportunity to daylight (bring to
the surface) two of Vancouver's historic lost streams: China Creek, and Brewery Creek.
The study begins with a series of large-scale context analyses, looking at how the
proposed Grandview Greenway fits into the city of Vancouver as a whole. The analyses
include topography, hydrology, watershed boundaries, utilities, openspace, circulation,
structures, zoning, and how cultural views and perceptions of the environment have
changed over the past 50 years.
Trout lake watershed in its built form is the next area of focus. Starting at the individual
lot, an analysis of the current condition is identified as it relates to stormwater
management. Suggestions are made to increase the amount of groundwater infiltration,
while reducing the amount of surface runoff collected in the watershed. Runoff
calculations for the watershed illustrate the limits to the proposed system ie. the
maximum size of wetland needed to store and treat all stormwater runoff before it enters
Trout Lake, and the minimum flow the creek will require during summer dry periods.
All calculations support the feasibility of the proposed greenway in its entirety.
Route options are explored to connect the stream to the Grandview Cut, followed by the
detailed design of the Grandview Cut to accommodate the stream, pedestrians, cyclists,
the existing rail line, and wildlife. Once in the False Creek Flats, route options are once
again explored to link the stream to False Creek. Now in the industrial section of the
greenway route, the form of the stream changes from a model of a natural system to that
of an urban canal. This allows the system to accommodate more water, while using less
total land area.
China Creek Park is the next detailed design focus. The goal is to daylight China Creek
through the park and connect it to the Grandview Greenway system. It is proposed that
for this section of the greenway, the initiative be entirely derived through community
groups as well as special interest groups, rather than by the City of Vancouver. What is
proposed is at a smaller scale with less intervention to the Landscape.
The final stage of the proposed greenway is the estuary as it enters False Creek near
Science World. Detailed design shows how the canal enters False Creek and how it
relates to Science World, the Sea Wall, and to the proposed Sustainable Community of
Southeast False Creek.
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The City of Vancouver’s industrial land use planning in a context of economic restructuringLogue, Scott 05 1900 (has links)
Industrial land use and economic policy created by the City of Vancouver
between 1968 and 1991 is analysed within a context of economic restructuring to
illustrate how these types of policies may be improved. Within this time frame,
the City of Vancouver had three distinct periods of policy development that were
largely delineated by local political and economic factors. The first period was
characterised by a liberal-based civic party in control of the local administration,
a healthy urban economy, and a post-industrial sentiment that did not support
the industrial community and resulted in a significant decrease in the city's
supply of industrial land. In the second period, an increasingly left of centre local
government was forced to contend with the poor economic conditions of the
early 1980s; consequently, the industrial sector and the economy as a whole
received considerable attention and support from the local government. The
third period was characterised by the re-birth of post-industrialism and a right of
centre administration with little interest in economic planning or maintaining an
industrial sector in the City of Vancouver. The main lessons to be drawn from
this policy analysis are (1) that the modern economy will continue to change
rapidly and generate significant consequences and challenges for civic
governments, (2) there are benefits to planning for the future rather than simply
accommodating change as it happens, (3) the short sighted agendas of
politicians need to be tempered by an assessment of the long term
consequences of policy development and implementation, (4) there needs to be co-operation between the region's numerous public bodies to ensure
complementary policy development across municipal boundaries, and (5)
governments need to be proactive and engage in economic planning during both
growth and recessionary economic periods in order to embrace new economic
opportunities as they arise, mitigate the negative consequences that change
often generates, and help produce strategic visions for planning purposes.
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A hybrid commercial/library building for the resort town of WhistlerMallen, Peter J. W. 05 1900 (has links)
The hybrid nature of the building's program became the central idea behind the design of the project.
The combination of office, retail and library funcions was an attempt to investigate the possibility of integrating
a public amenity space directly within a private building. The implication of such a collision of uses
was not only the potential for public cost savings and the promotion of public construction, but as well a
possibility of the creation of a symbiotic relationship between these two forces. The private spaces of the
building could make use of some of the public, while the public spaces could make use of some of the
private.
The project took on a diagramatic and absract nature early on, detatched architecturally somewhat
from surrounding site conditions in order to investigate the possibilities of connecting and overlapping the
building's public and private uses. An early series of diagrams and sectional sketches began to shape the
building in its beginning. The three major elements of the program (office, library and retail) were initially
separated vertically in space. The retail occupied the ground floor, the library the second, and the offices the
final and third. However, the idea of interrelation of the spaces required a greater extent of overlapping and
mixture. Thus, the strategy of a split-level shceme started to emerge. The three separations remained
somewhat intact, however separated by intermittent split levels. These split levels contained spaces which
could relate to either the floor directly above or below. The idea was that these 'shared' spaces could contain
elements of the program which could be used by both library and retail, or by both office and library. The net
result was a 'saving' of space, as well as a mixing of public and private functions.
Yet, with the mixing of public and private uses came the architectural issue of building security. How
could a public book enter and leave a retail store? How could a private office be contained from public
access? Would the separate retail units truly relate with the library space? Were there more possibilies for
more double uses?
The library took on the role of both public amenity and private retail enterprise at this point in the
project. The move seemed to satisfy both issues of security and interrelationship between public and private
functions. The security system of the library would double as the cash desk; the library stacks would contain
both borrowable books and commercial retail goods for consumption; the seating for the library would also
provide for the in-house cafe-bar; library staff would also function as staff for the shared smaller offices on
the second floor. In this sense, the combination of private and public functions not only reduced the need for
excess (publically funded) space, but aslo presented the idea of a saving of maintenance and operational
costs.
The location of the building in Whistler village was done for two main reasons: the town, at present,
is currently without a permanent library for a rapidly growing full-time population; and the town, as a resort
municipality, relies heavily on its commercial activity in order to energize its main, public pedestrian outdoor
mall. The specific site of the building was a point in the village which related both directly to this
pedestrian mall as well as an adjacent shopping centre, intended for the vehicular traffic and use of the more
full-time residents of Whistler Village. Here the full time residents coming in to use the library could
perhaps discover its second commercial nature, while tourists may make use of the public use of the building
while going in soley to shop. The building would then be a place where both full-time residents and incidental
tourists could both come, interacting within the same building for an array of different reasons.
Architecturally, the building was a modest success: the issue of security had been adressed and overlapping
of private and public functions was explored in the building. However, the notion that a library
would become a highly commercial retailer still seemed improbable; even in an age of decreasing government
spending and reliance upon the private sector for public services, the difficulty in motivating a traditionally
public sector into an entrepreneurially self-sustaining enterprise prevented the likelihood of its
construction.
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Community-police partnerships: coproducing crime prevention services : a Vancouver case studyCairns, Michele Elizabeth 11 1900 (has links)
Since the early 1990s, the Vancouver Police Department has embarked upon coproductive
service arrangements with various geographic communities throughout the city of
Vancouver. Through the vehicle of storefront crime prevention offices (CPOs), local
communities and the police are working in partnership to problem-solve around local crime
and safety issues. Three models of crime prevention offices have emerged: ethnic-specific,
police-run, and community-run. This thesis focuses on a case study of the community-run
model—community crime prevention offices (CCPOs).
Through participant observation, key informant interviews, analysis of policy documents and
a review of the respective literatures on community policing and community crime
prevention theory and practice, the present case study was examined. Key informants
revealed basic partner expectations. The community expect the police to be accessible to the
offices through their physical presence and by ongoing two-way communications regarding
community crime-related concerns. The police, in return, expect the CCPOs to provide a
conduit through which community needs and priorities can be communicated to them. Each
partner brings to the office function different responsibilities. The community is responsible
for maintaining adequate levels of community support for office programs and services. The
police provide a set level of human and material resources to all crime prevention offices.
Much has been written on the rationale behind the "community-police partnership" era.
However, less has been written about the effective implementation of such partnerships.
While the main thrust behind the formation of CPOs has been occurring since 1994, there are
still no clear guidelines set regarding partner roles and responsibilities. The future viability
of CCPOs is predicated on the mutual accountability of both the community and the police.
Future steps could be taken to ensure the responsibility of both partners in this process:
1) a partnership agreement should be implemented between the community and the police to
clarify expectations and role contributions;
2) accountability measures should be in place to reflect partner expectations and roles;
3) the police, as public servants, should address the resource inequities which exist among
CCPOs;
4) the community should ensure CCPO programming is responsive to broad-based
community need; and
5) ongoing efforts should be made to enhance partner communication.
CCPOs have proven to be a vehicle of great promise. CCPOs are an interesting coproductive
blend of community self-help and police re-organization along community policing lines. By
first addressing their commitment to each other as partners, and attending to some of the
weaknesses in this present partnership configuration, a more effective partnership will result.
Such a partnership will better serve their mutual goals to enhance the safety and livability of
Vancouver neighbourhoods.
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Soldiers of the King: Vancouver’s interwar militia as a social institutionYuill, Ian David Campbell 11 1900 (has links)
The interwar militia in Vancouver is a poorly understood institution, partly because scholars have
come to associate the militia with militarism. However, the militia has important non-military functions
and the interwar militia regiments were more than social clubs. This thesis compared the activities of two
of Vancouver's militia regiments by examining their archival holdings to see if they had documentary
evidence to support the notion that they functioned as a proto-fraternal society during the interwar period.
The militia regiments functioned as fraternal associations providing mutual aid as well as congeniality. In
the immediate post World War One period and during the Great Depression, with successively lower
militia appropriations, militia regiments were forced out of necessity to come up with innovative ways to
recruit and keep men on strength. Service in the militia was voluntary with members turning their pay
back to the regiments to enable many of the militia regiments to function. The militia regiments held
suppers and dances, and paid transportation costs to get members out for parade nights. The militia also
played an integral role in the ceremonial life of the city. The ceremonial and symbolic values of militia
units on parade were accepted features of public ceremonies in the city. It reaffirmed Vancouver's
"Britishness." This thesis compares two of Vancouver's militia regiments during the interwar period, the
Seaforth Highlanders of Canada and the British Columbia Regiment. The ethnic affiliation of the
Seaforth Highlanders of Canada to the city's Scottish groups was a remarkable feature of Vancouver's
elite unit. The militia allowed ambitious and patriotic young men to follow a British aristocratic career
pattern: formal education at private schools, post-secondary training and military service. Militia
regiments were part of an active social network within Vancouver between the wars. They conferred
status, provided aid, and supported dominant values such as in Vancouver's society. This thesis provides
some insight into the functioning of these two regiments as fraternal organizations and how they
connected to the larger community.
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Bringing back the right : traditional family values and the countermovement politics of the Family Coalition Party of British ColumbiaMacKenzie, Michael Christopher 05 1900 (has links)
This dissertation examines the characteristic features and problems of a
party/movement as they pertain to the Family Coalition Party of British Columbia
(FCP). The FCP is a minor provincial political party in British Columbia that was
founded in 1991 to provide a formal political voice for pro-life and pro-family
supporters in the province. After years of frustrated activism within the pro-life and
pro-family movements and ineffectual political representation, the founders of the FCP
sought to establish a political access point that could provide a more direct route to the
province's political decision-making process. The result was the formation of the
Family Coalition Party, a conservative political organization that supports social policies
which are resolutely pro-life and promote a vision for the restoration of what is
understood as the traditional family. The primary goal of the party is the advancement
and implementation of such policies, with electoral success pursued as a secondary
goal. This agenda renders the FCP an organization that uses a political party form to
perform social movement work or functions. In this regard, the FCP exhibits the hybrid
duality of a party/movement in the tradition of the Cooperative Commonwealth
Federation and the Green Parties of Canada and Germany.
In developing a sociopolitical and ideological profile of the Family Coalition
Party and its politics of the family, its historical roots are traced back to the conservative
political writings of Edmund Burke and brought forward to the current era of late
twentieth century neoconservatism. The pro-family movement (PFM), of which the
FCP is a part, is examined comparatively in the United States, where it exists in its most
mature form under the auspices of such Christian Right organizations as the Christian Coalition, and in British Columbia, where the movement remains in a state of relative
political infancy and organizational disunity. Despite the disparities in organizational
maturation, the movements in both countries share a high degree of ideological
resonance concerning their opposition to feminism, abortion, euthanasia, and
reproductive technologies, and their support for increased parental control in education,
programmes that will promote the traditional family, and a minimalist state.
To understand the duality of the Family Coalition Party as a party/movement, it
is first analyzed as a social movement organization (SMO) and then as a minor party in
Canadian politics. Using contemporary social movement theory, the Family Coalition
Party is found to exhibit the same traits and problems as those typically characteristic of
the New Social Movements, despite the ideological disparities between the two. To this
end, the FCP can be understood as a sub-type of New Social Movement, a Resurgence
Movement, as it attempts to simultaneously resist one type of social change while
promoting another by working to re-establish a diminishing set of normative cultural
beliefs. As a minor political party of protest, the FCP, with reference to relevant political
science research, is seen to embody the motivations, features and difficulties of minor
parties as evidenced in the Social Credit League, the CCF, and the Green Party. In this
regard the emergence of the FCP is symptomatic of a cadre party system that fails to
adequately represent issues important to an aggrieved segment of the population and
also experiences the institutional obstacles of the Westminster parliamentary model of
political representation.
In examining the FCP as a party/movement, four ways of analytically relating
political parties and social movements are reviewed before a fusionist perspective is used to identify the characteristic features and problems of party/movements. Three
sources of tension (organizational, institutional and cultural) are subsequently
identified. These tensions are one of two types: they are either difficulties unique to
party/movements, created by the deliberate fusing of party form with movement
function; otherwise, they are problems common to every SMO or minor political party
striving to achieve political legitimacy and potency. For party/movements, the
challenge of resolving this latter set of problems is exacerbated beyond the level of
difficulty experienced by single identity organizations precisely because of their dual
identity. The experience of other party/movements, such as the CCF and the Green
Parties of Canada and Germany, suggests that their specific tensions make it difficult to
maintain a dual identity, with a drift towards either political institutionalization or
dissolution likely, if not inevitable. While the Family Coalition Party is presently
maintaining its party/movement nature, its future as such is in doubt unless the
tensions of fusion that it now faces are effectively managed.
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Developing and testing an effective interactive voice response (IVR) system for the Workers’ Compensation Board of British ColumbiaMehra, Gaurav 05 1900 (has links)
This thesis was the result of a study conducted for the call-centre at the Workers'
Compensation Board of British Columbia (WCB). The management at WCB wanted to
understand the nature and pattern of calls at their newly opened call-centre. The purpose
of this was to provide an efficient customer service while streamlining the flow of calls
coming to the call-centre.
An extensive data collection exercise was undertaken at the call-centre and two other
units of WCB with which the call-centre interacts. The data analysis revealed that a
high proportion of calls were related to transfers to these departments. There were also
calls related to routine inquiries on claim payment cheques and forms that could
potentially be handled by a well designed IVR system.
Based on this understanding the development of an effective IVR system was proposed to
address the problems that were discovered through documenting the nature and pattern of
calls. An extensive review of literature was undertaken to design a new system according
to the standard industry guidelines suggested by the best practices and customized to
WCB's business needs. Two alternate scripts were developed after analysing the source
and purpose of calls to WCB. One was 'person specific' and the other was 'task specific'.
The two scripts were tested on students at WCB through a computer-based IVR
simulation. The results of the student survey provided evidence that introducing
additional options and use of simple and clear instructions in the new scripts could
potentially in fact address the problems discovered in the study and they were preferred
over the existing WCB script. The IVR simulation is reconfigurable and can be used in
future studies to gather further evidence in support of the results obtained in this thesis as
well as refine scripts before putting them in a production mode.
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Agricultural land and community in British Columbia : UBC research farm and Oyster River community : towards an agri-cultureMuir, Sara Katherine 05 1900 (has links)
The Oyster River Research project begins by exploring the meaning of agriculture, the
definition, the history, the cultural context of agri-culture, as well as the role of agriculture in our
present day. An overview of the Agricultural Census 1992 is given to outline the Agricultural
Industry past and present within Canada, and the major issues and constraints with regards to
Agriculture in British Columbia are identified. Elements of farmland conservation, BC's ALR, as
well as case studies and precedents regarding farmland conservation strategies are also
discussed. From this research exploration, an understanding of the role and scope of UBC, the
Oyster River Farm, and the surrounding community, locally and regionally is met, and programs
capable of linking these issues are developed. These programs, in conjunction with the overall
farm and community site design, exhibit the most beneficial means of defining and developing
the relationship of UBC, the farm, and the community, while maintaining the integrity of
agricultural land and the practice of farming for local food security. Ultimately, this design thesis
offers a solution that attempts to serve UBC, the Oyster River Farm and the local / regional
community in a manner most sensitive socially, ecologically, and economically to issues
presently facing the Research Farm and the larger community of the Comox-Strathcona
Regional District.
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The intention of tradition : contemporary contexts and contests of the Kwakwaka’wakw Hamat’sa danceGlass, Aaron J. 05 1900 (has links)
This thesis explores the dialectical relationship between aboriginal and anthropological
discourses of tradition and cultural performance. Specifically, I examine some ways in which
concepts of tradition and culture are invoked in British Columbia's First Nations communities in
order to negotiate, validate, and contest contemporary transformations to cultural practice. Two case
studies of recent controversies within Kwakwaka'wakw communities are presented, one
surrounding the bestowal of the Hamat'sa Dance on the pan-tribal American Indian Dance Theater
for use in public presentations, the other involving the performance of the Hamat'sa— customarily a
male prerogative— by women. This study addresses both local Kwakwaka'wakw dialogues about
history and contemporary values, and the larger public, academic, and political environments in
which those dialogues occur. This thesis takes as its broadest context these dialogues and shifts in
the scale of identity and representation: between different native communities and different voices
within them; between contests for local privilege and global control over "national" heritage;
between indigenous peoples and the discipline of anthropology. I argue that tradition is best
approached as a critical value emerging from these discourses, a concept which is intentionally used
as a marker of present identity through strategic appeal to the past.
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