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Labour, Enslavement, and Indigenous Space: Liverpool, Nova Scotia in the Atlantic World, 1759-1812
(2022-08-30)
This thesis reconceptualizes the Planter and Loyalist periods around Liverpool, Nova Scotia, from 1759 to 1812. Rather than privileging the American Revolutionary War, it emphasises Indigenous space and Black people to ...
DEO, LEGI, REGI, GREGI: UNIVERSITY OF KING'S COLLEGE, 1920-1945
(2022-08-31)
The period from 1920 to 1945 was critical in the University of King’s College’s history. During this quarter century, the university was destroyed by fire, moved from Windsor to Halifax, federated with Dalhousie University, ...
Midwives working in Nova Scotia: An exploratory qualitative study of their experiences of work and perceptions of their profession
(2023-04-06)
Midwives support the health of women and their families, and midwifery is associated with numerous benefits such as high maternal satisfaction, low birth complications, and relatively few interventions. Midwifery has existed ...
Barn Raising and the Imagination: Experiencing Life through the Reimagined Barn
(2023-07-17)
The mythical historic landscape of Kingsburg, Nova Scotia, Canada becomes a time and place to daydream, as long days spent in the sun end with red skies of sunset. This dream finds an end through a temporal shift to the ...
Narrative City: Latin American Home-City Landscapes in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2023-08-22)
Storytelling lies at the center of cultural production and exchange. In smaller immigrant
communities without dedicated cultural infrastructure and established networks of
gathering spaces, oral storytelling functions ...
Biofibrous Potentialities: A Scalar Approach to Biogenic Futures
(2023-08-24)
Our current extractive practices with architectural materials are unsustainable and biogenic options must be explored. Much of the current discourse and use of biogenic materials in architecture operates as a one-to-one ...
Toward a Mi'kma'ki Art Music: Implications of the Peace and Friendship Treaties for Western Art Music in Nova Scotia
(2023-08-30)
This paper explores the implications of the Treaties of Peace and Friendship for Western art music in Nova Scotia. By examining the Treaties not only as historic documents but, from Mi’kmaw perspectives, as living ...
Sound the Siren: Exploring the Relationship Between the Occupational Environment and Mental Health and Well-Being of Volunteer Firefighters in Rural Nova Scotia
(2023-12-07)
Volunteer firefighters provide critical emergency response services in rural communities across Nova Scotia. They face unique challenges and are at an increased risk for mental health issues. This study’s purpose was to ...
PHARMACISTS AS IMMUNIZERS IN NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA: IDENTIFYING IMMUNIZATION PRESCRIBING TRENDS AND PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS
(2023-12-15)
The study objectives were to 1.) describe demographic characteristics of individuals prescribed immunizations by pharmacists in Nova Scotia, comparing characteristics pre- and during COVID-19 and against the provincial ...
THOMAS RADDALL AND THE MAKING OF A PUBLIC HISTORIAN IN NOVA SCOTIA, 1945 - 1958
(2024-04-14)
Nova Scotia's history and heritage sector transformed in the mid-twentieth century. This thesis argues that Thomas Head Raddall played a vital role in these transformative processes and was a valued member of the historical ...