Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Newfoundland"
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Any Mummers Allowed in the Pool? Queering Vernacular Typologies in Outport Newfoundland
(2021-04-09)The province of Newfoundland and Labrador’s unique cultural mythology and traditional architecture is directly related to a heteronormative way of living, with relatively no evidence of queerness in representations of place ... -
Body, House, Landscape: Re-Constructing Memory in Post-Resettled Newfoundland
(2021-04-09)Body, House, Landscape: Re-Constructing Memory in Post-Resettled Newfoundland investigates collective memory in rural Newfoundland and the act of the Newfoundland Resettlement Program. The Newfoundland Resettlement, a ... -
Designing for Sensitive Sites: Enabling Sustainable Interaction In Ecologically Sensitive Sites
(2015-04-06)Design for sensitive ecological sites while promoting interaction with those sites requires a clear understanding of where the site’s fragility lies and what measures would be most appropriate to minimize intrusion while ... -
Distilling an Industry: Re-engaging the Community of Bell Island through Small-Scale Industry
(2019-08-13)The province of Newfoundland and Labrador presents many outlets for resources and innovation. Unfortunately, outdated technology and economic downturns have rendered many communities economically vulnerable. The community ... -
Inventing the Past: Regional Myth in Michael Crummey’s Galore and Richard Flanagan’s Gould’s Book of Fish
(2014-12-15)This thesis seeks to investigate the ways in which a novel from Newfoundland and a novel from Tasmania use history and myth to reimagine their colonial beginnings in light of recent debates about finding and defining ... -
Morphological Variation and Genetic Differentiation in Wild and Domestic Atlantic Salmon from Southern Newfoundland
(2020-12-16)Adaptive divergence is an important force structuring wild populations and directly influencing species persistence and stability. Wild Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) have declined across their native range in recent ... -
“Mr. Big Wood or Sawdust?”: Joseph R. Smallwood & The 1959 IWA Strike in Central Newfoundland
(2019-08-27)Joseph R. Smallwood was, for lack of a better term, a Newfoundlander for Newfoundland. Or so, that is how he portrayed himself. Under the first ten years of Confederation, Smallwood pushed a program of rapid industrialization. ... -
The Old Order Changeth: Rediscovering Place Through a Usable Past
(2023-04-13)On the west coast of Newfoundland is the city of Corner Brook, site of the province’s sole pulp and paper mill. During the 1920s, a planned, industrial company town grew around the mill site, introducing company housing ... -
Preserving Place: Presenting Heritage with a New Sense of Youth
(2023-07-07)The convergence of social media, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the nature of urban environments has led to a widespread sense of placelessness and isolation among individuals, both physically and emotionally. This predicament ... -
Relations and Rivals: The Social Worlds of Benjamin Lester, 1760-1775
(2021-04-01)For eighteenth-century merchants active in Newfoundland trade, competition was fierce. This raises the question of why some merchants succeeded when many failed. To answer this question, this thesis analyzes the diary of ... -
Remedial Tourism: Cultivating Rural Sustainability Through Community Directed Industry
(2021-08-09)This thesis originated as a response to the persisting collapse of various industries across the Island of Newfoundland, and its impact on rural communities. Given the ongoing threat of resettlement, many outport areas ...