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This dissertation examines the literary archives of three Ontario cities – Windsor, Hamilton, and Toronto – to discover and enfold urban nature in our everyday lives. Beginning with a refusal to accept the popular notion that there is no nature in the city or that the city is separate from the natural world, I seek to engage with writers in these three cities to find representations of and engagements with the natural world in an urban setting. In the light of a growing environmental crisis marked by fossil fuel shortages, climate change, biodiversity decline, and habitat loss, this project is an attempt to craft a meaningful response from an ecocritical perspective. Central to this response are two key contentions: one, that the natural world is in the city, but we need to find ways to recognize it there; and, two, that the most efficacious and ethical way to respond to environmental crisis is to make this urban nature a part of our everyday lives by fostering attachments to it and protecting it, or, to put it differently, enfolding it into our human lives. Using literature, my project shows how the natural world is present in three Ontario cities and how writers like Di Brandt, John Terpstra, Phyllis Brett Young, and others are already including urban nature in their work. This work also addresses significant gaps in Canadian literary discourse which has tended to focus on wilderness or rural spaces and in ecocritical discourse which has also tended to eschew urban locations. This project adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to read a wide range of texts including fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, educational material, scientific publications, and others in order to encourage readers and citizens of Windsor, Hamilton, and Toronto to discover and enfold the urban nature present in those cities. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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"Pour étudier les valeurs traditionnelles canadiennes-françaises dans les pratiques familiales des Franco-Ontariens du Nord-Est de l’Ontario dans un ménage mixte francophone-anglophone, il faut essentiellement pénétrer au cœur de leur vie quotidienne. Une telle étude ne peut être possible sans considérer le contexte historique qui permet non seulement de connaître les sujets d’étude mais aussi d’authentifier leur passé. C’est à la lumière des conjonctures du passé que le cadre temporel de ce travail se fixe. Plus particulièrement, il gravite autour de la décennie des années 1960; période reconnue pour ses réformes entraînées par la Révolution tranquille au Québec, et par effet d’entraînement, chez certains de ses voisins. L’objet de l’étude veut entre autres appréhender le phénomène de la conciliation des valeurs traditionnelles dans les pratiques coutumières plus particulièrement depuis les bouleversements de cette période. Pour rendre compte de cela la démarche ethnologique est adoptée. Une enquête orale de type ethnographique sur le terrain auprès de deux familles intergénérationnelles de trois couples permet une importante collecte de données. Les récits de vie des informateurs des trois générations dévoilent de façon exemplaire le visage traditionnel de l’Ontario français du Nord de la province en faisant transparaitre sa vitalité quotidienne."

The species richness, abundance and composition of saproxylic Coleoptera was compared between 'old-growth' and mature-managed hemlock-hardwood forests in southeastern Ontario, Canada. Beetles were sampled weekly from 29 April until 3 October 2003 using large-area flight-intercept traps (FITs) and trunk-window traps (TTs). Analyses were conducted using the Fisher's alpha and Simpson's diversity indices, rarefaction, indicator species analysis and cluster analysis. A total of 11,888 fungivorous Coleoptera was collected from 11 families and 73 species (excluding Nitidulidae). Nitidulidae were analysed separately with traps yielding 2,129 sap beetles comprising 30 species. The species richness and abundance of fungivorous Coleoptera did not differ significantly between the two forest types. Conversely, the species abundance of nitidulid beetles was higher in managed forests and the species richness higher in 'old-growth' forests. Several species were strongly associated with either managed or 'old-growth' forest types. Certain species such as Anisotoma inops (Leiodidae) and Glischrochilus sanguinolentus (Nitidulidae) were much more frequently caught in TTs than in FITs.

Pain is the most prevalent medical problem that elderly persons experience in a long-term care home. Nurses play an essential role in managing their pain. The purpose of this study was to explore nurses’ pain management practices in Ontario long-term care homes facilities. The ultimate aim was to recommend measures for effective pain management in aged people. The setting for this study was a selected long-term care home in Ontario, Canada, a 160-bed nursing home for aged people offering various medical care services. Semi-structured focus group interviews, averaging approximately one hour, were conducted. The population of this study was 45 nurses. The researcher used a purposive sampling method to select a sample of 25 nurses. Open-ended questions were used to explore pain management practices and to find barriers to effective pain management. Qualitative data analysis was used to review the data to identify common issues that recurred, and they were summarised in a narrative form. This study demonstrated the importance of recognising and overcoming barriers to the effective management of pain and reinforcing good practices in long-term care homes. Therefore, improved pain management practices are required to manage pain in a long-term care home effectively. / Health Studies / M.A. (Nursing Sciences)

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