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Home in the Garden: A Case Study of the Lhotsampa Refugee Community’s Use of a Community Garden in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2016-08-26)
In 2011, the Lhotsampa refugees from Bhutan who live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, worked with an immigrant services group to institute the Glen Garden community garden. Participation in the garden is especially important to ...
Re-imagining a Petrochemical Landscape in Dartmouth Nova Scotia
(2016-04-07)
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 ...
The Irish in Halifax, 1836-1871 : A Study in Ethnic Assimilation
(1976)
The mass emigration of rural peasants to the urban communities of America and Britain is a central episode in the history of nineteenth-century Ireland. The development of an Irish community in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is one ...
The longshoremen of Halifax 1900-1930; their lives and working conditions
(1977)
The longshoremen of Halifax have traditionally been one of the largest groups of labourers in the city. - During the
period 1900 to 1930 they began to capitalize on their numerical strength and on the potential their job ...