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Guardians of the Seascape: Considering the Next Era of Lighthouses in Rural Nova Scotia Communities
This thesis studies ways in which architecture and the coastal infrastructure of lighthouses can help preserve a relationship with the seascape, encouraging rural Nova Scotian communities to engage and respond to their ...
"They Are Here to Stay"? Foreign Nurses on Temporary Work Permits in Nova Scotia, Canada
Foreign nurses are moving to Canada on temporary permits, and gaining employment in the Nova Scotian healthcare sector. In this dissertation, I argue that their experiences of movement and work are conditioned by a complex ...
Measuring Emergency Care Network Population Coverage Using Location-Allocation Models and Geographic Information Systems
The objective of this thesis is to measure how the Nova Scotia Emergency Care Network, consisting of Emergency Departments (EDs) and Collaborative Emergency Centres (CECs), covers the population, and provide a tool to ...
HIV Testing in Nova Scotia: An Indigenous Perspective on Access and Acceptability
Understanding the relationship between race/ethnicity and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) provides insight into HIV testing behaviour (PHAC, 2014). Nationally, Indigenous peoples of Canada represent a higher rate of ...
Exploring a Methodology for Creating Flood Risk Vulnerability of Land Use Classification using Professional Opinions from Municipal Planners and Emergency Management Official in Nova Scotia
While climate change increases the need for disaster prevention, insufficient municipal budgets limit efforts to protect coastal residents. Assessing flood risk using land use vulnerability is useful for municipalities as ...
FACIES DISTRIBUTION, FLUVIAL ARCHITECTURE, PROVENANCE, DIAGENESIS, AND RESERVOIR QUALITY OF SYNRIFT SUCCESSIONS FROM THE BREAKUP OF PANGEA: EXAMPLES FROM THE FUNDY BASIN AND ORPHEUS GRABEN
This study investigates the sedimentology, provenance, diagenesis, and reservoir characteristics of Late Triassic synrift successions from the Wolfville and Chedabucto formations along the margins of the Minas Basin and ...
From Missionary to Linguist: An Account of Silas Tertius Rand, 1810-1889
Silas Tertius Rand was a nineteenth-century Nova Scotian Baptist linguist and missionary, although he struggled with the latter. The Mi’kmaq had little interest in converting to the Baptist faith; many of them had joined ...
Main Street is Dead, Long Live Main Street
Deindustrialization is a phenomenon apparent in many countries across the world, but while the majority of the revitalization focus has been on large metropolitan cities, little consideration has been taken into account ...
Woolscapes: Re-Connecting Nova Scotian Agriculture and Craft
Wool is a natural, renewable and biodegradable resource. It is used by the sheep to protect them from the elements; a natural form of architecture. Its properties as a thermally and acoustically insulating, water resistant, ...
Re-imagining a Petrochemical Landscape in Dartmouth Nova Scotia
This thesis addresses the vast petrochemical landscape of the Imperial Oil Refinery situated within the urban context of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. The recent decommissioning of the refinery has reduced it to an arcane ...