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Interest group involvement in constituency election campaignsSovka, Roseanne M. 11 1900 (has links)
This study explores the range and variance of interest group activity in constituency campaigns in the 1988 federal election as reported in the Constituency Party Association dataset created in 1991 for the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing. SPSSPC+ was used to analyze the relationships between variables in four main areas: political party affiliation, geographic variables, constituency association characteristics, and the specific issues the interest groups were promoting or opposing. The most significant finding was that interest groups were actively involved in half of the riding association election campaigns, either supporting or opposing local candidates. The cursory treatment of electoral involvement in the interest group literature provides an inadequate explanation for this widespread phenomena. This study provides an initial profile of interest group involvement in constituency campaigns. The exploration of the data revealed that interest groups were more likely to be involved in the local campaigns of candidates associated with the governing party. They were less likely to be involved in Quebec constituency campaigns, and more likely in wealthy competitive riding campaigns. The most frequently mentioned issues that motivated interest groups locally were abortion, followed by free trade.
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Raciological thought in Victorian culture : a study in imperial disseminationO'Leary, Daniel Ralph J. 05 1900 (has links)
My thesis revives the term raciology to describe collectively the literature which emanated
out of philological ethnology, that is, out of the studies of man inspired by the rapid advances in
linguistic science in the early nineteeenth century. Raciological Thought in Victorian Culture is
divided into two parts: it examines the development and dissemination of nineteenth-century
raciological knowledge in the works of celebrated philologists and anthropologists; and then
investigates typical features of raciological discourse in Victorian and Victorian Canadian culture.
It views this regional British literature as a field for the political and educational deployment of
British raciological conceptions, and comments on some of the implications of the circulation of
raciological doctrine.
My argument begins with discussion of the often overlooked celebrity and authority of
philologists in Victorian culture, tracing the derivation from philology of raciological typologies
which established the raciological associations of terms like "Britons," "Anglo-Saxons," and
"Teutons" during the early and middle-Victorian periods. An important aspect of the thesis is a re-evaluation
of the influence of Friedrich Max Muller, the most influential comparative philologist
and mythologist in the Victorian world. I argue that his use of etymological study for archaeological
data greatly contributed to the rapid dissemination of raciological thought among the educated and
educating classes. The first part of the thesis concludes with discussion of issues which animated
raciological discourse.
The second part follows the dissemination of Victorian raciological thought to Canada, and
illustrates its effects in an imperial context. It demonstrates the use of raciology in establishing
Canada's legitimacy as a British nation, and documents the place of raciology in establishing the
authenticity of Canadian continuity with a British culture running into deep antiquity. After
discussing neglected raciological aspects of several important Victorian Canadian source works, it
goes on to outline the importance of raciological mythology to the preservation of the Dominion
from American annexation and Fenian incursion. My epilogue briefly documents the decline of
raciological thought in Britain after the 1890s.
By investigating numerous neglected Victorian sources, Raciological Thought in Victorian
Culture establishes raciology as an important element in Victorian political-and, in particular,
nationalist-thinking.
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Writing(s) against 'The Promised Land' : an autobiographical exploration of identity, hybridity and racismGibson, Chantal N. 05 1900 (has links)
Canada's continued forgetfulness concerning slavery here, and the nation-state's
attempts to record only Canada's role as a place of sanctuary for
escaping African-Americans, is part of the story of absenting blackness
from its history.
Rinaldo Walcott
The fact that people of African descent have had a presence in Canada for over
four hundred years is not well known within the Canadian mainstream. The fact that
slavery existed as an institution in Canada is another fact that is not well known. Within
the Canadian mainstream writing of African-Canadian history, Blacks most often appear
in historical narratives around the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, as
American fugitives or refugees—either as escaping slaves or British Loyalists. Through
the representative writing of the "the Black refugee," Canada is often constructed as a
"Promised Land," a sanctuary or safe haven for Blacks, a place of refuge and redemption
that does not speak to the complex history of slavery that existed well before the
American exodus.
Many Black Canadian writers and scholars argue that there is a price to be paid
for this kind of representation. First, the absence of people of African descent in
Canadian historical narratives, prior to the coming o f the American refugees, ignores the
long presence of Blacks in Canada and the contributions that Blacks have made in the
development of Canada. Second, in focusing on the American Loyalists and refugee
slaves, Canadian writers and historians often construct Black Canadians as a
homogenous, genderless group, ignoring the diversity within Canada's Black population
and, in particular, the concerns of Black women. Finally, the mainstream representation
of Canada as a 'safe haven' proves problematic for any critical discussion of racism in
contemporary Canadian society, for notions of "Canada the good" and "America the evil"
that arose from those crossings North still penetrate the Canadian mainstream today.
This autobiocritical exploration examines the representation of the haven and
offers alternative readings to contemporary mainstream writings of African-Canadian
history. In part one, I track the appearance of Black Canadians, over the past fifty years,
from 1949 to 2001, in a survey of mainstream and scholarly texts. Using the results of
this survey, which does not see the appearance of Blacks in Canada until 1977, I examine
how mainstream texts might use the works of Black writers to offer more critical and
complex histories of Black Canadians and, in particular, Black women. In part two, I
take up an analysis of George Elliott Clarke's Beatrice Chancy. Seen as a counter-narrative
to mainstream writings of African-Canadian history, Clarke's work, which
takes up the subject of slavery in early-nineteenth century Nova Scotia, presents an/Other
kind of Loyalist story, one with a Black woman at its centre. In this discussion I examine
how Clarke's poetic work subverts the national narrative, as he speaks to the diversity
within blackness and the complexities in defining racial identities.
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Interest group involvement in constituency election campaignsSovka, Roseanne M. 11 1900 (has links)
This study explores the range and variance of interest group activity in constituency campaigns in the 1988 federal election as reported in the Constituency Party Association dataset created in 1991 for the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing. SPSSPC+ was used to analyze the relationships between variables in four main areas: political party affiliation, geographic variables, constituency association characteristics, and the specific issues the interest groups were promoting or opposing. The most significant finding was that interest groups were actively involved in half of the riding association election campaigns, either supporting or opposing local candidates. The cursory treatment of electoral involvement in the interest group literature provides an inadequate explanation for this widespread phenomena. This study provides an initial profile of interest group involvement in constituency campaigns. The exploration of the data revealed that interest groups were more likely to be involved in the local campaigns of candidates associated with the governing party. They were less likely to be involved in Quebec constituency campaigns, and more likely in wealthy competitive riding campaigns. The most frequently mentioned issues that motivated interest groups locally were abortion, followed by free trade. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate
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An opportunity for service : women of the Anglican mission to the Japanese in Canada, 1903-1957James, Cathy L. January 1990 (has links)
The present thesis is a study of the women involved in the Anglican mission to the Japanese Canadians between 1903 and 1957. Drawing on a variety of primary source documents housed in the Anglican church archives in Toronto and Vancouver, as well as information gathered in interviews with three former missionaries, the study aims to determine who these women were, what their work consisted of, their reasons for choosing to work among Japanese Canadians, and what effects their efforts had, not specifically on the intended recipients, but on the women themselves.
The thesis argues that much of the success of the mission, as measured by the number of Japanese Canadians who utilized its facilities and programmes, is due to the high level of involvement of local women. Until the World War II evacuation of Japanese Canadians from the coast of British Columbia, the mission's main facilities were located in Vancouver. In 1917 a male-dominated governing board took over the work, and attempted to 'professionalize' the mission during the interwar period. Still, of the over fifty middle-class Anglo-Canadian women, the majority were drawn from the local community, and a further seventeen Japanese Canadian women, originally from the mission's clientele, became involved in the work. A number of these women were employed as lay workers, and those who had the requisite training were engaged as professional missionaries, but more than half of the workers worked as volunteers.
Work in the mission offered an attractive outlet through which these women channelled their energy, skills, and humanitarian propensities. It allowed Anglo-Canadian women to take on a public role while upholding contemporary notions concerning appropriate behaviour for their sex, "race" and class, while the Japanese Canadian workers gained the acceptance and esteem of their Occidental colleagues, and access to a respectable occupation at a time when they had few options to choose from. Thus by creating and largely maintaining the mission, a number of Anglican women,
working within the confines of the maternal feminist ideology, built a sphere for themselves which encouraged their personal growth. / Education, Faculty of / Graduate
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Raciological thought in Victorian culture : a study in imperial disseminationO'Leary, Daniel Ralph J. 05 1900 (has links)
My thesis revives the term raciology to describe collectively the literature which emanated
out of philological ethnology, that is, out of the studies of man inspired by the rapid advances in
linguistic science in the early nineteeenth century. Raciological Thought in Victorian Culture is
divided into two parts: it examines the development and dissemination of nineteenth-century
raciological knowledge in the works of celebrated philologists and anthropologists; and then
investigates typical features of raciological discourse in Victorian and Victorian Canadian culture.
It views this regional British literature as a field for the political and educational deployment of
British raciological conceptions, and comments on some of the implications of the circulation of
raciological doctrine.
My argument begins with discussion of the often overlooked celebrity and authority of
philologists in Victorian culture, tracing the derivation from philology of raciological typologies
which established the raciological associations of terms like "Britons," "Anglo-Saxons," and
"Teutons" during the early and middle-Victorian periods. An important aspect of the thesis is a re-evaluation
of the influence of Friedrich Max Muller, the most influential comparative philologist
and mythologist in the Victorian world. I argue that his use of etymological study for archaeological
data greatly contributed to the rapid dissemination of raciological thought among the educated and
educating classes. The first part of the thesis concludes with discussion of issues which animated
raciological discourse.
The second part follows the dissemination of Victorian raciological thought to Canada, and
illustrates its effects in an imperial context. It demonstrates the use of raciology in establishing
Canada's legitimacy as a British nation, and documents the place of raciology in establishing the
authenticity of Canadian continuity with a British culture running into deep antiquity. After
discussing neglected raciological aspects of several important Victorian Canadian source works, it
goes on to outline the importance of raciological mythology to the preservation of the Dominion
from American annexation and Fenian incursion. My epilogue briefly documents the decline of
raciological thought in Britain after the 1890s.
By investigating numerous neglected Victorian sources, Raciological Thought in Victorian
Culture establishes raciology as an important element in Victorian political-and, in particular,
nationalist-thinking. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate
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Writing(s) against 'The Promised Land' : an autobiographical exploration of identity, hybridity and racismGibson, Chantal N. 05 1900 (has links)
Canada's continued forgetfulness concerning slavery here, and the nation-state's
attempts to record only Canada's role as a place of sanctuary for
escaping African-Americans, is part of the story of absenting blackness
from its history.
Rinaldo Walcott
The fact that people of African descent have had a presence in Canada for over
four hundred years is not well known within the Canadian mainstream. The fact that
slavery existed as an institution in Canada is another fact that is not well known. Within
the Canadian mainstream writing of African-Canadian history, Blacks most often appear
in historical narratives around the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, as
American fugitives or refugees—either as escaping slaves or British Loyalists. Through
the representative writing of the "the Black refugee," Canada is often constructed as a
"Promised Land," a sanctuary or safe haven for Blacks, a place of refuge and redemption
that does not speak to the complex history of slavery that existed well before the
American exodus.
Many Black Canadian writers and scholars argue that there is a price to be paid
for this kind of representation. First, the absence of people of African descent in
Canadian historical narratives, prior to the coming o f the American refugees, ignores the
long presence of Blacks in Canada and the contributions that Blacks have made in the
development of Canada. Second, in focusing on the American Loyalists and refugee
slaves, Canadian writers and historians often construct Black Canadians as a
homogenous, genderless group, ignoring the diversity within Canada's Black population
and, in particular, the concerns of Black women. Finally, the mainstream representation
of Canada as a 'safe haven' proves problematic for any critical discussion of racism in
contemporary Canadian society, for notions of "Canada the good" and "America the evil"
that arose from those crossings North still penetrate the Canadian mainstream today.
This autobiocritical exploration examines the representation of the haven and
offers alternative readings to contemporary mainstream writings of African-Canadian
history. In part one, I track the appearance of Black Canadians, over the past fifty years,
from 1949 to 2001, in a survey of mainstream and scholarly texts. Using the results of
this survey, which does not see the appearance of Blacks in Canada until 1977, I examine
how mainstream texts might use the works of Black writers to offer more critical and
complex histories of Black Canadians and, in particular, Black women. In part two, I
take up an analysis of George Elliott Clarke's Beatrice Chancy. Seen as a counter-narrative
to mainstream writings of African-Canadian history, Clarke's work, which
takes up the subject of slavery in early-nineteenth century Nova Scotia, presents an/Other
kind of Loyalist story, one with a Black woman at its centre. In this discussion I examine
how Clarke's poetic work subverts the national narrative, as he speaks to the diversity
within blackness and the complexities in defining racial identities. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate
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World Views and Social Involvement: A Proposal for Classification of Canadian Neo-Calvinist Social Involvement, 1945-1980Kits, Harry J. January 1988 (has links)
No description available.
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Secularization in English Canada in the 1960s : mass media and the "Problem of history"Morris, Stephen James. 10 April 2008 (has links)
No description available.
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Representing twentieth century Canadian colonial identity : the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE)Pickles, Catherine Gillian January 1996 (has links)
No description available.
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