Canadians

Background: In recent years, Canadian universities have been striving to improve engagement with Indigenous Peoples, knowledges and perspectives. Despite these efforts, and in the absence of national guidance, little is known about what changes are taking place in physiotherapy …

Beginning just a long decade after New France became part of the British Empire in 1763, a half-century of major crises engulfed British North America; the American Revolutionary War (1775-83), the postwar forced migration and resettlement of thousands of destitute and hungry Br…

In February 1942, the Canadian government exiled all Japanese Canadians from the Pacific coast, including 76 students attending the University of British Columbia. While other Canadian universities enrolled some Japanese Canadian students recommended by the British Columbia Secu…

This thesis studies two marginalized groups in North American history--French Canadians in the early 20th century and African Americans in the mid 20th century. Chapter 2, co-authored with Bill Dorval, investigates the impact that the arrival of access to financial services had …

This dissertation is a composition, of stories, many stories, of journeys, of people as they moved from Sudan to Canada, confronting and contesting the dominant refugee discourse(s). Stories that also challenge the form and content of academic writing. Form builds on content, mo…

Using data from the Canada Census 2001, this study examined the socioeconomic attainment of 30-year old immigrant women in Canada in 2001 in comparison to the native born women. In addition, income attainment of 30-year old child immigrant women, teen immigrant women and second …

As human beings who know the world through our bodies, understand the world through our bodies, and think through our bodies, we engage our "most natural tool" (Lock 1993, 148) in the process of belief in a number of ways. The body is "our general medium for having a world" (Mer…

This study used a qualitative action research approach to investigate the question, “What do community representatives of Jagraon, Pakistan, perceive that they need from a sister hospital in Powell River, British Columbia, to support them in developing their own health care faci…

Canada is home to people from various cultural groups who speak languages other than English or French. Iranians comprise an immigrant group that has a very different cultural background from that of the mainstream Canadian population and speaks a language other than English or …

This thesis examines how the Canadian nation state produces itself as both global and national through the bodies of Asian women. Focusing on the turn of the twenty-first century, it explores the parameters and frameworks in which women of Asian heritage are both incorporated as…

A wealth of recent scholarship has focused on interreligious dialogue as a resource for the transformation of religious conflicts. Such studies often mention the importance of discoveries or 'insights' as key factors in successful dialogue processes. However, few authors have de…