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"The Difference", a Novel: In 1908, a Canadian woman on a clipper ship in the south Pacific buys a small boy for four pounds of tobacco
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SSHRC Awarded IG 2013: Over the next three years, I will research and write the first draft of a new novel. The Difference will examine the actions of a Canadian woman in 1908, wife of a clipper ship captain, who buys a small Tongan boy for four pounds of tobacco. The research required for The...
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Identifying gaps in asthma education, health promotion, and social support for Mi’kmaq families in Unama’ki (Cape Breton), Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Watson, R., King, M., Stewart, M., Masuda, J., Castleden, H.
Introduction Asthma is the most common chronic condition affecting Aboriginal youth aged 8 to 12 years in Canada. Research investigating psychosocial challenges associated with asthma is limited. This study examines support resources, support-seeking strategies, support and education needs, and...
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2020-08-01
This is a transcription of Paul Mascarene’s eighteenth-century translation of Molière’s Le Misanthrope, based on an undated and untitled manuscript that is bound in a volume with other records from Mascarene’s time as a military and civic leader in British Nova Scotia, held in the British...
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Fall 2019
The Antigonish sub-basin in the late Paleozoic Maritimes Basin stretches from the Nova Scotian Antigonish Highlands into western Cape Breton Island, Canada. The sub-basin is structural in origin and is bounded by faults that developed late in the history of the Appalachian orogen. The Late...
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Rural Older Adult Physical Activity Participation and Promotion in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
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Given the relatively high rates of physical inactivity among older adults in Nova Scotia (NS) (Statistics Canada, 2011), the purpose of this study was two-fold: 1. To examine the physical activity (PA) beliefs, perceptions and experiences of rural older adults in rural Cape Breton, NS and 2. To...
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That’s not my history! Examining the role of personal counter-narratives in decolonizing Canadian history for Mi’kmaw students
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This doctoral research examines personal narratives of current and former Mi’kmaw students to discover how they situate their own understandings and narratives of Canadian history alongside the content and teaching in the current curriculum in Nova Scotia’s band-controlled and...
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2013-10-11
SSHRC Awarded IG 2014: How do humans recognize speech? How do factors such as native language, age, and dialect have an effect on the way in which spoken words are recognized? The present proposal seeks to investigate these and other questions regarding spoken language recognition by creating and...
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Voice of the Immigrant Bard: Social Commentary in Scottish Bardic Compositions in Nineteenth Century Nova Scotia
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The poetry of the Scottish emigrant bards in the nineteenth century provides integral insight into the experience of the immigrant Scots in Nova Scotia. This thesis explores the role of the Scottish emigrant bards as social commentators; that is, how the narrative and bardic elements present...
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“British, but Also French: Paul Mascarene’s Translation of Molière’s Le Misanthrope in Colonial Nova Scotia.”
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This is the accepted version of the following article: True, Micah. “British, but Also French: Paul Mascarene’s Translation of Molière’s Le Misanthrope in Colonial Nova Scotia.” Quebec Studies, vol. 71, no. 1, 1 June 2021, pp. 133–150., which has been published in final form at...