In the late-nineteenth century, Métis families and communities resisted what they perceived to be the encroachment of non-Aboriginal newcomers into the West. Resistance gave way to open conflict at the Red River Settlement ...

The objective of this study is to revisit the American presidential election of 1972 via the interpretive lens of Richard Nixon�s loyal inner circle. It argues that the Watergate scandal that forced Nixon to resign the ...

From 1953-1961, Richard Nixon served as Dwight Eisenhower’s vice president. As vice president, Nixon represented the United States and the Eisenhower administration on several foreign missions. Cold Warrior Abroad studies ...

Exploring the experiences of one Aboriginal man, Chief William (Billie) Hall of the Tzeachten reserve (located within the City of Chilliwack, BC), as documented by him in his journals covering the period 1923-1933, this ...

This thesis seeks to problematize current historiographic approaches to family, generally, and Indigenous families, specifically. Contrary to much of the scholarship on this topic, Indigenous families like the Stó:lõ have ...

This dissertation is the first in-depth English study of East Germany’s Union of the Consumer Co-operatives (Konsum). It explores the roles of this organization, while alluding to the nature of power relations, Soviet-style ...

Wishing to modernize the province of Saskatchewan, the Tommy Douglas-led Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government (CCF), initiated a number of major, if not groundbreaking, programs. One of these initiatives, the ...

This thesis was designed as an exploratory work to discover what types of materials were available for the writing of local histories in Saskatchewan. The Rural Municipality of Mankota, No. 45, was a test area. The sources ...

This thesis examines the principles which guided James G. Gardiner's approach to dominion-provincial relations specifically those which underlay the Canadian politician's land policies. Gardiner's political career lasted ...

This thesis is the first scholarly study of community history from the perspective of the communities involved in the process. In Saskatchewan, over one thousand professionally printed community-history books have been ...