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Ontario history is riddled with challenges to the survival of the French language in the province. Today, the issue of language maintenance is a serious one for Franco Ontarians living in areas where French is the language of the minority. Much needs to be done in the area of language maintenance and it is up to area French language schools to ensure the survival of the language. This project attempts to examine the history which has led Franco-Ontarians to the issue of language maintenance, the government's and the school's role with respect to ensuring the survival of French and to develop a curriculum unit whose purpose is to encourage students to capitalize on the use of their language of origin and culture by developing cultural pride and encouraging them to develop social networks outside the school. / Thesis / Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT)

Within the past few decades, issues of public funding for religious schools in Ontario have re-entered the policy debate and have led to discussion about the different ways in which schools could be organized in this province. Through the integration of literature available on the varying ways in which to administer a public education system along with a contextual backdrop to religion and education in Ontario, this paper will propose a policy by which to accommodate requests of various religious groups for separate schools while at the same time increasing overall accountability within Ontario's schools, public and private. / Thesis / Master of Social Work (MSW)

This thesis puts forward a unique perspective for how we can view changes in the context of sedentism, specifically with regard to the Middle and Late Woodland periods (ca. 400 B.C. – A.D. 1650) in southern Ontario. The transition to a more sedentary way of life leads to significant socio-economic changes in settlement type, subsistence, demography, architecture, and material culture, and acts as an incentive for change as it pertains to ideological transformations. In this thesis I concentrate on how changing ways of living impacted people’s ideology and related practices, focusing on the social habit of smoking, and its related material culture pre and post-sedentism in southern Ontario. I suggest that the changes witnessed in this practice (and associated paraphernalia) are reflective of a means of social group maintenance, and by extent a different mechanism of how societies regulated themselves. My study further examines the role smoking pipes had for group and individual recreational use, alongside group communal practices. I propose that more pipes per site signify daily use, reflecting a shift away from the pre-sedentary communal practice of smoking led by ritual specialists, to a post-sedentary individual and occasional group experience. Moreover, I argue for a link between smoking, social relationships, and the promotion of social solidarity. The stimulus for certain practices, and the structure of the socio-cultural system within which they occur, is significant for they are interwoven into all aspects of society. The aim of this thesis is to add to our perception of change and transformation during the Middle and Late Woodland periods of southern Ontario, while providing a unique perspective for understanding socio-cultural transformation in the context of sedentism more generally. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

Across eastern Ontario areas of poor water quality have been identified through several groundwater studies completed as part of the Ontario Geological Surveys Ambient Groundwater Geochemistry Program in partnership with local municipalities and conservation authorities. This study focuses on a subset of data collected between 2012 and 2017 between east Ottawa and Champlain Township along the south shore of the Ottawa River. A high degree of variability is observed in groundwater chemistry and geochemical processes which closely relate to major geologic features across the study area (~1600 km²). Over 9000 borehole records were evaluated and used to produce updated bedrock topographic and drift thickness models to better constrain geologic features in the region. These models in conjunction with geochemical results from 369 domestic well water samples highlight the significant implications that stagnant groundwater flow and preferential recharge areas have on groundwater quality across the study area.

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The focus of this research is to examine people's perceptions around issues of health and health care. Using the qualitative research method of in-depth interviewing, the perceptions of twenty-four individuals are explored. This sample is taken from a middle class, white collar community in Southern Ontario. The major emphasis of this work is upon re-creating a human experience in order to come closer to understanding how people's attitudes and beliefs influence their health seeking behaviour. This research found that health is a taken for granted state which is important for daily functioning. It is a difficult term for people to explain and it was found that changing the term to healthy made it easier for the informants to describe. Some of the determinants of health were explored and it was found that behaviours such as exercise, diet, and drinking alcohol as well as occupation and environment were all perceived as factors which could shape the types of illnesses people suffer. The only behaviour which was seen as a determinant of health was smoking. The informants saw other factors as having a greater influence on determining their health. These were fate, fault (blame), and family(heredity). This study also explored illness behaviour and perceptions about physicians and health care. People are aware of the signals that their bodies give thus signifying that something is wrong. People feel that they go to considerable extent in treating their own illnesses before they seek medical care. They also have expectations about their physician and failure of the physician to meet these expectations can result in a disruption in treatment or termination of the relationship. The Canadian health care system is seen by these informants as being the best in the world. People are very proud of this country's system for the delivery of health care. They are concerned about the health care crisis but perceive a reduction in government spending on health as being irresponsible. This work uncovers many of their ideas about problems in the delivery of health care services and possible solutions to these problems. This work seeks to contribute to the body of knowledge about lay perceptions. It is one of a few formal studies of its type done in Ontario. It represents an additional dimension to the investigation of the delivery of health services. By coming closer to understanding the human experience of health and health care, we can assist in creating a health care system that not only treats illness and diseases but also delivers health to all. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

Every city possesses and umland, an area adjacent to the city, within which economic, cultural, and social activities are focused on that city. The size of the umland is determined chiefly by two factors, the size of the city, and its location. A large city usually will have a large umland, but if it is situated in an area of urban concentration, the extent of the umland will be limited through competition. Hamilton is a city such as this. Near it is Toronto, a large and influential city which restricts Hamilton's regional development. Closer are the smaller cities of Guelph, Galt, Brantford and St. Catherines, all of which have their own umlands, and all of which compete with Hamilton. The term umland implies an interrelationship between the city and the region. The city performs services for the region, and distributes goods to it. In turn, the region supplies provisions for the urban market, and workers and buyers for its industrial and commercial enterprises. This relationshup may or may not be close. Hamilton is an industrial city, with little dependence on the region. However, the region looks to the city to supply some of its needs. It is the purpose of this thesis to show the relationship between Hamilton and its umland, and to explain some of the factors which determine the extent of that umland. / Thesis / Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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The Canadian agricultural sector was recognised as a potential seller of carbon offset credits in the domestic emission trading system. A number of beneficial management practices may reduce GHG emissions while increasing production efficiency and profitability of agricultural activities. A contingent valuation survey was used to estimate the carbon offset price at which feedlot operators in Ontario would adopt two management practices that reduce GHG emissions: adding roasted soybean seeds to a cattle diet and increasing the intensity of feedlot operations. The value elicitation questions to estimate the mean WTA compensation were designed using a multiple bounded discrete choice format developed by Welsh and Poe (1998). / It was estimated that at a carbon offset price of $ 25.14/t CO2 e provided enough incentive for feedlot operators to intensify their operations and a price of $ 109.51/t CO2e to change their feeding strategies. The mean willingness to accept a cost to change a conventional practice to a greenhouse gas emissions reducing practice was estimated to be 62% of the carbon revenue. The regression analysis demonstrated that producers' willingness to accept compensation was influenced by the individual's characteristics, farm structure variables, and practice attributes. Policy makers may use these results in the design of greenhouse gas reduction strategies for the beef sector.