In Canada, volunteers significantly contribute to the core value of heritage sector – the continuation of histories, traditions, and experiences. However, volunteers from the younger generations have not yet been attracted to this sector because the social impacts and the purpos…
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Controversial paleomagnetic data implies that at 90 Ma much of the Coast Mountains and Insular superterrane were 1200-3000 km to the south. The eastern boundary of these allochthonous rocks is near the Pasayten fault in southern British Columbia. This study covered an ~40 km seg…
Over the last half century, Yelloweye Rockfish Sebastes ruberrimus have experienced dramatic declines along the West Coast of the United States and British Columbia. Efforts have been made throughout the species’ range to rebuild and sustainably manage stocks, including the intr…
My partner organization for my research was FortisBC (FEI), a public energy utility in British Columbia. My purpose in exploring truth and reconciliation in my organization was to examine how the organization could respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s 9…
This study examines the identity construction processes of multilingual undergraduate university students taking the Foundations of Academic Literacy (FAL) course at Simon Fraser University (SFU). I conducted an ethnographic study with an interpretative approach to highlight the…
The author presents low trust and low perceived relevance of Christian churches as a ministry problem for local churches as they go into their world and make disciples of Jesus. She used a survey to determine the degree of correlation between trust and perceived relevance of loc…
This thesis explores what it means to be an ethnic minority and a gang member in the course of becoming a Canadian. It is based on narratives of first-generation Iranian immigrant youths who migrated to Vancouver, British Columbia, in the 1990s and created a gang called Persian …
This is a heuristic study about successful Ethiopian refugees in British Columbia. Heuristic research is another building block of phenomenological inquiry; it permits the researcher to discover his/her lived-experience within the phenomena. This research explores and discovers …
This dissertation examines the issue of intercultural understanding. I explore the role played by language in constituting human subjectivity in accordance with the common insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, and Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, in order to: (1) affir…
The primary objective of this thesis is to conduct exploratory research to examine the possible variables that lead to the perpetuation of the drug problem, in the hope that such findings may suggest more effective approaches to solving the drug problem. The literature relating …
My thesis is about the governance of trees through what seem to be natural configurations of order, and about how this form of tree governance is utilized to legitimize the governance of certain humans. By interpreting a series of in-depth interviews and participatory observatio…
This thesis examines the migration of Iranian women to Vancouver, B.C., between the period 1978 through 2007. One of the most significant factors influencing this migration was the Iranian revolution of 1978-1979, although Canadian immigration policy also impacted the migration …
Objectives. The primary objective of this study were to investigate the use of hospital discharge records as a tool for work-related serious injury surveillance, including analyses to compare injury reporting patterns using hospital records versus workers' compensation records a…
Christian environmental ethics, and the philosophy of Deep, Ecology are assumed by many of their respective adherents to be incompatible, primarily because they reflect different anthropologies. Deep Ecology posits an "ecological self," whose foremost characteristic is nonanthro…