DOCSLIB.ORG

2011-12 Annual Report

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
2011-12 Annual Report / / 2011 / 2012 MESSAGE FROM MESSAGE FROM OUR DIRECTOR OUR CHAIR When the school year came to a close in May I embarked on a On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I thank our donors for your gifts. / mini-sabbatical cycling trek. I pen this note en route. It is a 10,000-km You have been particularly generous this year. The tremendous response personal challenge in celebration of UWC’s 50th anniversary—but it to the matching challenge issued by an anonymous donor in early has also turned out to be a powerful affirmation for me of how truly 2012 resulted in an extraordinary $1,490,088 raised through the connected our Pearson College community is to each other and the match! Along with other donations throughout the fiscal year, a total of world. Alumni and friends of the College have welcomed me into their $4,289,012 was fundraised in support of Pearson College and its homes and hearts during this journey, and have shared stories of the mission for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012. powerful impact Pearson College has had on their lives. I am so grateful for your generosity. It is only through your support and When students are together on campus, the College is abuzz with the continued efforts of our remarkable academic and administrative energy and a sense of global community. At the end of this two-year staff that we are able to offer an educational experience that will provide transformative educational experience, they leave committed to apply our scholars with the ability to help make the world a better place. the skills and compassion learned at Pearson somehow and in some way in the world. With every graduating class, our community grows I have now had the privilege of serving as Chair of the Pearson College and expands—stretching and intersecting to have even more impact Board of Trustees for one year. I have visited the College on many across the globe. occasions, and through my discussions with the students I am convinced that the College is arming young people who have the will to make a At the College itself, it has been a year of progress. We have further difference with the tools to do so and effectively contribute to solidified our commitment to growing fundraising and ensuring sustainability and global peace. financial stability. And there are exciting plans for campus renewal on the horizon. This hope and optimism is largely thanks to you, our That they have the opportunity to do so is thanks to you, our supporters. community of supporters—a community committed to the mission of education as a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future. You have made all the difference. Thank you. Dr. Randall Gossen, Chair of the Pearson College Board of Trustees Dr. David Hawley, College Director RACE ROCKS, AN ECOLOGICAL PRESERVE AND MARINE-PROTECTED AREA MANAGED BY PEARSON COLLEGE. PEARSON COLLEGE ANNUAL REPORT 2011 / 2012 2 PEARSON ALUMNI ARE DEDICATED TO MAKING CHANGE Russia HAPPEN IN DIVERSE AND POWERFUL WAYS THROUGHOUT Vladmir Bugaev PC YR 17 THE WORLD. HERE’S A SAMPLING. Founder of Distributor Company at Medtronic; founded the first-ever innovative spine education centre in Russia. The Netherlands Germany Mohamed Youssef, PC YR 32 Alessandro Prandi PC YR 17 Working mainly on the Libya Head of Global R&D Continuous situation at the International Improvement at Sandoz. Quebec, Canada Criminal Court in the Office of Syria Public Counsel for the Defence. Chloé Houle-Johnson, PC YR 37 Pearson welcomed our first Coordinating a social reinsertion Kazakhstan student from this country program for a non-profit outdoors in 2011/12. camp, working with people from Abylay Tyurabayev, PC YR 36 “One World summarizes my whole Vancouver, Canada vastly different social backgrounds. experience at Pearson. Those two days made me believe in peace achieved Yuen Pau Woo, PC YR 6 through unity and hard work.” President and CEO of the Wales Asia Pacific Foundation. Stephen Doughty, PC YR 23 Head of Oxfam Wales and at work on a mix of local development in Wales as well as international development. San Francisco, USA Japan Ramy Adeeb, PC YR 21 Lin Kobayashi, PC YR 18 Founder of snip.it, a website Named Young Global leader that lets users collect or “snip” of the World Economic Forum articles, videos and images on for 2012; Executive Director the web and share them with and Chair of the Board of the their opinions. Foundation for the International MAKING A WORLD School of Asia, Karuizawa. Toronto, Canada Yves Savoie, PC YR 8 The CEO of the Multiple Sclerosis OF DIFF ERENCE Society of Canada is an advocate and champion of people with MS and more broadly of Canadians Thailand with disabilities. Amp Sae-Lao, PC YR 27 Founded a society to unite the Thai people and promote social inclusion and tolerance; also Guyana organized the first Asian Youth Forum. Pearson welcomed our first student from this Congo Dominican Republic country in 2011/12. Sylvia Nkombo Nkoula, PC YR 37 Currently studying biochemistry Pearson welcomed our first at Lewis and Clark College in student from this country Portland, Oregon. in 2011 /12. Australia Antarctica Nakkiah Lui, PC YR 30 Palestine Wrote her first play at Pearson; inaugural winner Argentina Damien Guihen, PC YR 27 Suriname Biophysical oceanographer with the Mujahed Sarsur, PC YR 33 in May of The Dreaming International Affairs speaker: Award national aboriginal Sarah Dingle Echesortu, PC YR 4 British Antarctic Survey, working with Pearson welcomed our “What do you do when all the arts prize. and Ciro Echesortu, PC YR 4 autonomous vehicles to develop new first student from this odds are against you? How the Gave $100,000 gift to the College techniques for mapping biomass in the country in 2011/12. Southern Ocean. Pearson experience helped a inspired by the matching challenge. student create a radical response to conflict in Palestine.” 3 PEARSON COLLEGE ANNUAL REPORT 2011 / 2012 PEARSON COLLEGE ANNUAL REPORT 2011 / 2012 4 POWER CORPORATION OF CANADA CORPORATE DONOR SINCE COLLEGE INCEPTION “Power Corp has supported Pearson College in recognition of its unique educational role in Canada and its commitment to ‘make a world of difference.’ Few Canadians have had the impact on international affairs as the late Lester B. Pearson. We are honoured to support a college that continues to serve his noble vision for a brighter world.” – John Rae, CEO MR. DONALD ROSS, TORONTO, ONTARIO THIS LONG-TIME SUPPORTER OF THE COLLEGE DONATED A 32-FT SAILBOAT NAMED IN HONOUR OF HIS CLOSE FRIEND AND FOUNDING DIRECTOR JACK MATTHEWS Mr. Ross remembers Jack encouraging people to donate “in accordance with their means” in the initial days of the College, and his donation was amongst the first. Mr. Ross thought it would be fitting “to commemorate the first director and perpetuate his love of sailing and helping young people learn.” / ALL WEATHER WINDOWS, EDMONTON, ALBERTA CORPORATE DONOR THAT SUPPLIED ALL WINDOWS FOR CALGARY HOUSE AND HAS A COMMITMENT TO CAMPUS RENEWAL “All Weather Windows takes great pride supporting Pearson College. We share similar values and vision, and it allows us to partner with a college that invests in the future leaders of countries, businesses and institutions worldwide.” – Henry Banman, CEO DR. ARTHUR CLARK, CALGARY, ALBERTA GAVE A SEED DONATION TO START A FUND IN MAKING A WORLD MEMORY OF HIS LATE WIFE DR. IRMA PARHAD Dr. Parhad, born in Iraq, was a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary researching Alzheimer’s OF DIFFERENCE disease. Dr. Clark established the Dr. Irma Parhad Programmes at the University of Calgary, from which has grown the Calgary Centre for Global Community. “Because of the excellent work ACROSS CANADA I saw being done at Pearson College, I felt that establishing a scholarship for a student from Iraq would be an important next addition to Irma’s legacy.” 5 PEARSON COLLEGE ANNUAL REPORT 2011 / 2012 PEARSON COLLEGE ANNUAL REPORT 2011 / 2012 6 MR. YI WANG, PC YR 16 YI DONATED $50,000 TOWARDS ROOM RENOVATIONS. HE CURRENTLY HEADS UP MAKING A WORLD GOLDMAN SACHS IN CHINA AND IS BASED IN BEIJING. OF DIFFERENCE IN CHINA “The past year has been exciting as an alumnus of UWC. Together with my fellow members of the UWC China National Committee, we have expanded the number of students we send from China to various UWCs to over 40 students. We are also moving forward with our efforts to build a UWC in mainland China.” RBC SCHOLARSHIP FOR STUDENT FROM CHINA “Pearson College is truly a national treasure, nurturing our future leaders and providing a once-in-a-lifetime living and learning experience to some of the brightest young / citizens of the world. RBC is privileged to have supported Pearson College since 1974, with scholarship funding of more than $780,000. I congratulate the class of 2012, wish all of Pearson’s new students the best of luck in the year to come and thank the faculty and staff for helping make possible so many bright futures.” – Shari Austin, Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, RBC I came to Pearson with the assumption that ‘cultural understanding’ “meant that I would represent my country and exchange ideas with other countries. But the reality is that I am living with 160 to 180 people from around the world who are not defined simply by their nationality, ethnicity or cultural background. I am exposed to diversity of every “ dimension I can think of. It is not only eye-opening, but also intriguing, challenging and thought-provoking.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Technoscientific Citizenship and Ecological Domesticity in an Age of Limits
    The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Electronic Theses and Dissertations Fogler Library 5-2021 Making Earth, Making Home: Technoscientific Citizenship and Ecological Domesticity in an Age of Limits Emma Schroeder University of Maine, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd Part of the Canadian History Commons, History of Gender Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, Oral History Commons, Social History Commons, United States History Commons, Women's History Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Recommended Citation Schroeder, Emma, "Making Earth, Making Home: Technoscientific Citizenship and Ecological Domesticity in an Age of Limits" (2021). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3360. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/3360 This Open-Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. MAKING EARTH, MAKING HOME: TECHNOSCIENTIFIC CITIZENSHIP AND ECOLOGICAL DOMESTICITY IN AN AGE OF LIMITS By Emma Schroeder B.A. Swarthmore College, 2006 M.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011 A DISSERTATION Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (in History) The Graduate School The University of Maine May 2021 Advisory Committee: Richard Judd, Professor Emeritus of History, Co-Advisor Mark McLaughlin, Assistant Professor of History and Canadian Studies, Co-Advisor Naomi Jacobs, Professor Emerita of English Anne Kelly Knowles, Professor of History Michael Lang, Associate Professor of History Copyright 2021 Emma Schroeder ii MAKING EARTH, MAKING HOME: TECHNOSCIENTIFIC CITIZENSHIP AND ECOLOGICAL DOMESTICITY IN AN AGE OF LIMITS By Emma Schroeder Dissertation Advisors: Dr.
    [Show full text]
  • Core 1..158 Hansard (PRISM::Advent3b2 6.50.00)
    CANADA House of Commons Debates VOLUME 138 Ï NUMBER 152 Ï 2nd SESSION Ï 37th PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD) Thursday, November 6, 2003 Speaker: The Honourable Peter Milliken CONTENTS (Table of Contents appears at back of this issue.) All parliamentary publications are available on the ``Parliamentary Internet Parlementaire´´ at the following address: http://www.parl.gc.ca 9229 HOUSE OF COMMONS Thursday, November 6, 2003 The House met at 10 a.m. First, let me deal with the suggestion that my ruling should lay out the options before the House in this matter. As hon. members know, Prayers the role of the Speaker in matters of privilege is well defined in House of Commons Procedure and Practice at page 122, which states: Ï (1000) The function of the Speaker is limited to deciding whether the matter is of such a [English] character as to entitle the Member who has raised the question to move a motion which will have priority over Orders of the Day; that is, in the Speaker's opinion, PRIVILEGE there is a prima facie question of privilege. If there is, the House must take the matter into immediate consideration. FORMER PRIVACY COMMISSIONER The Speaker: I am now prepared to rule on the question of The Speaker's ruling does not extend to deciding whether a breach of privilege privilege raised by the hon. member for Scarborough—Rouge River has in fact been committed—a question which can be decided by the House itself. on November 4, 2003 concerning the conduct of Mr. George Radwanski before the Standing Committee on Government Opera- It is clear to me that the Speaker's role in matters of privilege and tions and Estimates.
    [Show full text]
  • 2010-11 Annual Report
    01 2010Pearson College annual rePort /11 We02 are a tWo-year Pre-university College (grade 12 and gaP year) for 200 students from over 100 Countries Who live, study and groW together at the edge of the Western World. We believe that eduCation is a forCe to unite PeoPle, nations and Cultures for PeaCe and a sustainable future. our eduCation is transformational. this is our story in numbers. Table of conTenTs 02 03 04 08 Message froM Message froM stuDents by the nuMbers rhoDes scholar #11 the Director the chair 12 14 16 20 stuDent service international aluMni giving back higher Education by the nuMbers affairs speakers by the nuMbers by the nuMbers 24 26 30 32 sustainability by kayaking the saving AVAtar grove aluMni giving by the nuMbers insiDe passage the nuMbers 34 39 51 53 scholars anD faculty DonateD gifts enDowMent scholarhip special Mentions by the nuMbers anD funDs 54 56 57 58 patrons UWC boarD of trustees pearson college boarD of Directors 59 61 62 64 summarizeD auDitors’ report summarizeD stateMent of summarizeD stateMent financial stateMents financial position of operations & changes in funD balances 02 “ Our students came from every Dear Friends of Pearson College, imaginable background and location— What a year. Major events jolted our world, in particular the Arab Spring, and the from big cities, rural villages, refugee earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The College experienced them through the lives of camps, orphanages, public schools, our students and their families, and through our alumni, engaged as protesters and private schools and no schools at reporters in Tahrir Square, and as Red Cross workers and volunteers in Canada and all—all on full scholarship.
    [Show full text]
  • The Defence Research Board of Canada, 1947 to 1977
    The Defence Research Board of Canada, 1947 to 1977 by Jonathan Turner A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology University of Toronto © Copyright by Jonathan Turner 2012 The Defence Research Board of Canada, 1947 to 1977 Jonathan Turner Doctor of Philosophy Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology University of Toronto 2012 Abstract The Defence Research Board of Canada existed from 1947 to 1977. It was created because of the successful contribution of scientific management and specific military technologies to victory in the Second World War, and it was dismantled during a period of review and renewal of the government’s science and defence policies. The demise of the Defence Research Board demonstrated the triumph of business and public administration models over scientific management in spite of the successful defence research program. Among the successful projects of the Defence Research Board were satellites, research rockets, hydrofoils, nylon pile clothing, the wind chill factor, the strategic distinction between first and second nuclear strikes, open heart surgery, and blast trials. The strengths of the Defence Research Board were the scientific management practices that united the four Chairmen (Omond Solandt, Hartley Zimmerman, Robert Uffen and Léon L’Heureux) and the bench scientists. Over the course of its existence the Defence Research Board was shaped by six chains of events. 1. Solandt’s ability to recruit veterans from 1947 to 1953, 2. The election of John Diefenbaker and the ensuing conflict between Diefenbaker and civil servants, particularly over nuclear weapons, which led to the Royal Commission on ii Government Organisation and a decade of review of national defence policy (including two White Papers, integration and unification, and the Management Review Group), 3.
    [Show full text]
  • 175 Years: a History of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    175 YEARS A History of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology VISIONARIES, MAVERICKS, AND COLLABORATORS Writer and Editor Researcher and Writer Editor KRISTEN GANE CHRISTOPHER GEARY JOHN KINGDOM 175 Years: A History of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology VISIONARIES, MAVERICKS, AND COLLABORATORS Writer and Editor Researcher and Writer Edited by Kristen Gane Christopher Geary John Kingdom 175 Years: A History of the Department CREDITS of Obstetrics & Gynaecology Michael Browne Visionaries, Mavericks, and Collaborators Researcher © 2018 University of Toronto Nelson Cabral All rights reserved. No part of this publiation may be Co-editor reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or database, or Kristen Gane transmitted in any form or by any means, without the Writer and Editor prior written permission of the University of Toronto. Christoper Geary Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology Researcher and Writer Faculty of Medicine John Kingdom, University of Toronto Department Chair 123 Edward Street, Suite 1200 Editor Toronto, ON M5G 1E2 Canada Tel: 416-978-2216 Green Living Enterprises Fax: 416-978-8350 Design Flash Reproductions obgyn.utoronto.ca Printing /uoftobgyn @uoftobgyn #uoftobgyn Cover images: Toronto General Hospital, 92 College Street, Women’s College Hospital in 2018 Dedications & Acknowledgements This book is dedicated to the generations of Obstetricians, Gynaecologists, Nurses, and Midwives who over time have made many contributions to advance health care for women in Toronto. Perched female Empress Brilliant fighting off a male Crowned Woodnymph. Credit: Dr. Peter Hawrylyshyn, Mount Sinai Hospital, taken in Anchicaya Valley in Western Colombia Table of Contents 11 OBGYN History Timeline 45 Hendry: A Great Mentor 68 Ritchie: Recruitment Takes the Helm and Integration 17 Introduction Post WWI: Hospitals Dr.
    [Show full text]
  • “A Challenge and a Danger” Canada and the Cuban Missile Crisis
    “A Challenge and A Danger” Canada and the Cuban Missile Crisis By Caralee Daigle Hau A thesis submitted to the Graduate Program in History in conformity with the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada December 2011 Copyright © Caralee Daigle Hau 2011 Abstract President John F. Kennedy’s announcement, on Monday 22 October 1962, that there were offensive missiles on the island of Cuba began the public phase of what would be remembered as the Cuban missile crisis. This Cold War crisis had ramifications in many other countries than just the Soviet Union and the United States. Due to the danger involved in this nuclear confrontation, the entire globe was threatened. If either side lost control of negotiations, an atomic war could have broken out which would have decimated the planet. As the direct northern neighbors of the United States and partners in continental defence, Canadians experienced and understood the Cuban missile crisis in the context of larger issues. In many ways, Canadian and American reactions to the crisis were similar. Many citizens stocked up their pantries, read the newspapers, protested, or worried that the politicians would make a mistake and set off a war. However, this dissertation argues that English Canadians experienced the crisis on another level as well. In public debate and print sources, many debated what the crisis meant for Canadian-Cuban relations, Canadian-American relations and Canada’s place in the world. Examining these print and archival sources, this dissertation analyzes the contour of public debate during the crisis, uniting that debate with the actions of politicians.
    [Show full text]
  • Mike Hears Voices: Voice of Women and Lester Pearson, 1960-1963 Candace Loewen
    Mike Hears Voices: Voice of Women and Lester Pearson, 1960-1963 Candace Loewen ABSTRACT Born of a sense of urgency and hope in Toronto in 1960, Voice of Women (VOW), a women's peace organization, quickly grew and gained renown as a national organization. A timely affiliation with Lester B. Pearson from 1960 to 1963 encouraged and boosted the organization in its early years. Less than one month after VOW was born, Pearson, the Leader of the Opposition, formally proposed that Canada not accept nuclear weapons. However, when Pearson changed his mind as Prime Minister in 1963 and allowed nuclear warheads for Bomarc missiles into Canada, VOW became disappointed with him and increasingly focussed on the international scene. Women's concern for a lasting universal peace has trans• in mid-1963 VOW rekindled its original zeal for international cended borders of countries and policies of governments.1 In peace after a brief but deep immersion into Canadian politics. the early 1960s a Canadian women's peace organization had hopes of helping to establish universal peace in the tense Cold VOW developed out of a collective fear for the future of the War era. "By working through women's common interests world's children and the conviction that all women have a 5 and their instinctive concern for the human family," Voice of right to peace because of their common link to motherhood. Women (VOW) sought "to help create a world climate of VOW drew upon an earlier tradition of women's organiza• understanding favourable to mutual disarmament without tions: ever since the late nineteenth century a maternal con• fear."2 VOW's emphasis on the universality of motherhood cern for others' children and the amelioration of society's ills and peace in the early 1960s linked the organization to have caused many women to look beyond the domestic world.
    [Show full text]
  • Falconer Thirstan
    Governing the “Government Party”: Liberal Party of Canada Leadership Conventions of 1948, 1958 and 1968 by Thirstan Falconer A thesis presented to the University of Waterloo in fulfillment of the thesis requirement for the degree of Master of Arts in History Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2012 © Thirstan Falconer 2012 Author’s Declaration I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is the true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I understand that my thesis be made electronically available to the public. ii Abstract During the twentieth century, as Canadian voters began to associate the brand of their major political parties with the characteristics of their leaders, the Liberal Party of Canada’s leadership races evolved into events of national importance. This study examines this transformation through the 1948, 1958 and 1968 leadership conventions. It incorporates perspectives from inside the Liberal Party as well as the Canadian media’s portrayals of the conventions. This thesis explores the alternating pattern of anglophone and francophone Party leaders, the complications associated with the predictability of the outcome, the evolution of convention tactics to recruit delegate support, Party (dis)unity throughout the contests, and the political science theories that deconstruct the conventions and predict outcomes. It also details how, over time, the political ambitions of senior-ranking members trumped the interests the Liberal Party. iii Acknowledgements First and foremost, I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. Whitney Lackenbauer, for expressing enthusiasm from the outset of this topic. He offered continuous encouragement and advice throughout this project.
    [Show full text]
  • "Character and Circumstance": Political Biography in the 1990S
    "Character and Circumstance": Political Biography in the 1990s POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY was once thought of as almost synonymous with Canada's political history. This history has sometimes been interpreted as the interplay of empires or explained by economic determinism, but more often it was assumed that the country was largely the result of political decisions. To understand our past, we looked to the lives and decisions of politicians. In the balance between character and circumstance, we gave character a predominant role. But much has changed in the last generation. Political history has almost been crowded off Clio's podium by the emphasis on social and regional patterns and by studies of class and gender. How has political biography been affected by these changes? One thing is obvious from the list of biographies under review. Scholars in history may be writing specialized articles and monographs to be read by other scholars, but professional historians also continue to write political biographies. It is also apparent that these biographies have not been written with only other specialists as the audience. They are written in a prose which is meant to be accessible to a non-academic audience. At the same time, they are not potboilers, aimed at a mass audience. For the authors, political biography is still one approach to an understanding of our past. But how have the changes in the discipline of history affected biographical writing? Has political biography become a sub-category of social or regional or class history, providing case studies within these specialized fields? Or has political biography incorporated the new insights of other specialists to achieve a more sophisticated view of the role of the individual? If these volumes are a representative sample, the pattern is far from clear.
    [Show full text]
  • Geoffrey Pearson Fonds (GAHP)
    Archives & Research Collections, Carleton University Library Finding Aid - Geoffrey Pearson fonds (GAHP) Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.4.1 Printed: April 12, 2019 Language of description: English Archives & Research Collections, Carleton University Library Room 581, MacOdrum Library<br/>1125 Colonel By Drive<br/>Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6 Telephone: 613-520-2600 ext. 2739 http://arc.library.carleton.ca https://archie.library.carleton.ca/index.php/geoffrey-pearson-fonds Geoffrey Pearson fonds Table of contents Summary information ...................................................................................................................................... 3 Administrative history / Biographical sketch .................................................................................................. 3 Scope and content ........................................................................................................................................... 4 Notes ................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Access points ................................................................................................................................................... 4 Series descriptions ........................................................................................................................................... 4 GAHP-1, Lester B. Pearson, 1904-2012 .....................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Making Sense of the Arctic: U.S.-Canadian Foreign and Defense Relations and the Establishment of JAWS and the DEW Line, 1944-1957
    University of Calgary PRISM: University of Calgary's Digital Repository Graduate Studies The Vault: Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2018-04-10 Making Sense of the Arctic: U.S.-Canadian Foreign and Defense Relations and the Establishment of JAWS and the DEW Line, 1944-1957 Woitkowitz, John Woitkowitz, J. (2018). Making Sense of the Arctic: U.S.-Canadian Foreign and Defense Relations and the Establishment of JAWS and the DEW Line, 1944-1957 (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/31798 http://hdl.handle.net/1880/106511 doctoral thesis University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. Downloaded from PRISM: https://prism.ucalgary.ca UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY Making Sense of the Arctic: U.S.-Canadian Foreign and Defense Relations and the Establishment of JAWS and the DEW Line, 1944-1957 by John Woitkowitz A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY GRADUATE PROGRAM IN HISTORY CALGARY, ALBERTA April, 2018 © John Woitkowitz 2018 Abstract This dissertation examines the diplomatic history of U.S.-Canadian foreign and defense relations in the Arctic from 1944 to 1957. World War II and the emerging Cold War transformed the Northern and Arctic regions of North America from a peripheral region of international politics to a frontline of military planning.
    [Show full text]
  • 1 OBJECTS of AFFECTION: PRODUCING and CONSUMING TOYS and CHILDHOOD in CANADA, 1840-1989 by Braden P.L. Hutchinson, B.A. (Hons)
    OBJECTS OF AFFECTION: PRODUCING AND CONSUMING TOYS AND CHILDHOOD IN CANADA, 1840-1989 By Braden P.L. Hutchinson, B.A. (Hons), B.Ed., M.A. A thesis submitted to the Graduate Program in History in conformity with the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario September 2013 Copyright © Braden P.L. Hutchinson 2013 1 ABSTRACT This thesis examines the significance of toy production, distribution, marketing and consumption to Canadian understandings of childhood. Drawing on Patrick J. Ryan’s concept of the discursive landscape of modern childhood and Daniel Thomas Cook’s commercial persona of the child consumer, it explores the effect of toy controversies on a number of social, political and economic issues between the arrival of manufactured toys in Canada in the mid-nineteenth century and the rise of postindustrial capitalism. The toy industry, the social sciences, consumer activists and the Canadian state all played a pivotal role in raising the social significance attached to toy consumption. In the end, debates about toys highlighted popular manifestations of complex political and social issues by placing children and their material culture at the symbolic centre of “adult” conflicts. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A number of people have helped along the way to get this thesis before a committee. First and foremost I must thank my thesis supervisor, Dr. Karen Dubinsky, for her enthusiasm for the project, her wise counsel and her support. I was incredibly fortunate to have the pleasure of working with such an accomplished and down to earth scholar, whose keen editorial eye and encouragement helped make this thesis possible.
    [Show full text]