The Maritime Provinces of Canada offer tempting prospects to the petroleum industry, for oil and gas seepages have been reported from widely separated districts since the early settlement of the country. Yet the petroleum production to date has come almost exclusively from the Stony Creek field in New Brunswick, which has yielded only slightly better than one hundred thousand barrels of oil and twelve billion cubic feet of gas. It is the essential purpose of this thesis to investigate further the petroleum possibilities of this area through the medium of paleogeology. Three sources of information have been exploited in the construction of the accompanying paleogeologic map. They are: (l) published maps and descriptions of the stratigraphy and structure, (2) published geophysical information, and (3) the well logs available at the Borings Division of the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa. It is necessary at this point to note that the number and quality of the well logs available greatly restrict the accuracy of this study. Thus, this study is of necessity highly speculative in its outlook and only serves to point the way for future work if the various oil companies feel that such work is warranted. The stratigraphic horizon selected for this study is the pre-Pennsylvanian, that is, the surface geology as it appeared at the beginnings of the Pennsylvanian Period. To understand the interpretation of the paleogeologic map it is necessary to know something of the[...]

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In Canada, as in most other industrial countries, concern is expressed over the existence of regional unemployment imbalances. If these imbalances were quickly alleviated, by action of labor and capital markets, there would be no regional problem. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Not only do regional unemployment differentials exist, but, more importantly, they tend to exist in spite of migration. This phenomenon suggests that, in the depressed region, there is some exogenous change, declining export demand, taking place concurrently with net out-migration. In addition, net out-migration itself reduces employment levels to some extent in the loser region. Changes in the demand for labor in a region are related to: changes in the export demand for its commodities which form the employment base; and changes in population size resulting from regional mobility. This relationship is essentially founded in a type of multiplier relation between the employment base of a region and its total employment. In this paper a model is developed from which the above theoretical relationship can be empirically investigated. Debate on policy measures for reducing regional unemployment, industrial location and mobility policies, have proceeded largely without knowledge of relative magnitudes. For a more objective approach we need estimates of regional multipliers. With this information we would be better equipped to judge the employment effects of out-migration and changes in export demand on depressed regions. The estimation technique used in this paper is cross-sectional multiple regression analysis. The counties of the Maritime Region serve as the population sample for the analysis. Data comes mainly from the Censuses of 1951 and 1961; both provide considerable information for such series as employment by industry and changes in population due to migration. It is concluded from the analysis carried out in this paper that emigration does indeed contain a de-stabilizing element for the loser region, in the form of income depression. We cannot expect out-migration of the unemployed to reduce unemployment on a one for one basis. Also, the regional employment multiplier may be larger in the case of declines in the employment base than for increases in it. The results suggest that mobility policy and industrial location policy may not reduce regional unemployment as quickly as we might suppose, a priori. / Arts, Faculty of / Vancouver School of Economics / Graduate

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1934. / Vita. Published also without thesis note. Bibliography: p. 285-308.

The Prohibition Era in the Maritime Provinces ran from 1900 to 1930. This aspect of Maritime history has never been fully explored. This study argues that the rise and fall of prohibition in the region was a complex and multi-faceted phenomenon. Beginning in the early nineteenth century this thesis demonstrates that prohibitory legislation was accomplished due to the combination of five powerful influences. 'lbey were a nineteenth century anti-liquor tradition, the Protestant Social Gospel, secular progressivism, Social catholicism and World War I war-time reform enthusiasm. During the war and immediate post-war years prohibition in the Maritimes was relatively effective and reasonably respected. After 1920 however, the combination of another set of replicated forces led to prohibition's decline. They were the ending of war-time reformism, the failure of prohibition's promise, enforcement problems, wide-spread violations, the waning of reform idealism, regional economic problems and the rise of a personal liberty philosophy· Consequently, prohibition was repealed in favour of government control of the sale of liquor in New Brunswick in 1927 and in Nova 5cxJtia in 1929. Prince Edward Islam kept prohibition until 1948 but the law was all but dead after 1930. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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This thesis examines the efficiency of the price discovery mechanism in small regional markets utilizing the feed grain markets in the Maritime Provinces of Canada as a case study. Through the application of the Law of One Price (LOP), price transmission symmetry and Vector Error Correction Models (VEC), the author determined the price relationships that exist between the feed grain market in the Maritime Provinces and those in Western and Central Canada as external sources of supply. / The results suggest that there exists a relatively high degree of arbitrage between Maritime feed grain prices and those of Thunder Bay or Chatham for equivalent quality, price transmission being strictly from West to East. Although the LOP hypothesis must be rejected in the short run, in most cases, it was found to hold in the long run. Local markets appear to be highly integrated and price adjustment occurs within a period of four to six weeks, generally corresponding to the lead time of feed grain orders and transportation from Western Canada. A price transmission analysis found no evidence of the exercise of market power in the pricing of local grain. / In general, the pricing of local grains in the Maritimes may be judged as efficient considering that the lag in price response corresponds to the replacement period for Western grains.

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