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The Mennonites in Canada
(University of Winnipeg, 1947)
The thesis describes the origin and rootage of the Mennonite movement in Europe and the history of the Mennonite Church in Canada. The last area of study dedicated to relations between the Mennonites and the United Church ...
"We are the land, and the land is us": Connecting Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change in the Canadian Prairies.
(University of Winnipeg, 2018-12-11)
Owing to years of Indigenous lobbying, organizing, and scholarship, recent decades have
seen growing engagement with Indigenous peoples and their knowledges in environmental
management, policy-making, and research around ...
A Study of R. G. Collingwood's Theory of Logic and Philosophical Method: Its Meaning and Significance
(University of Winnipeg, 1948-03)
Every period of history and every race upon the earth have produced men who yielded to the call, so peculiar and so vital to the nature of man, to embark upon a quest for certainty. The material world, in which man lives ...
Source and fate of dissolved organic matter in boreal headwater streams
(University of Winnipeg, 2023-05)
Understanding the source and fate of dissolved organic matter (DOM), a key water quality variable, in boreal headwaters is of critical importance considering the amount of carbon stored and processed in different ecosystem ...
Habitat Characterization and Biology of the Threatened Dakota Skipper (Hesperia dacotae) in Manitoba
(University of Winnipeg, 2013-10-09)
The Dakota Skipper, Hesperia dacotae, is a threatened butterfly restricted to fragmented prairies in the Interlake, southwestern Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan in Canada. Currently there is limited data on the life ...
Basic and Applied Aspects of Thermal Acclimation in Juvenile Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)
(University of Winnipeg, 2020-08-06)
Rising water temperatures are affecting the health and distribution of aquatic organisms. Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), a popular freshwater sport fish adapted to cooler environments, is at risk to high temperature ...
Winnipeg Meat Packing Workers' Path to Union Recognition and Collective Bargaining
(University of Winnipeg, 1996-07)
This thesis explains why in the 1940s, Winnipeg meat packing workers secured sustainable industrial unionism. By tracing the development of the Winnipeg meat packing industry and investigating previously unsuccessful ...
Antimicrobial and Chemical Studies on a Medicinally important Plant: Curcuma longa
(University of Winnipeg, 2021-04-20)
This thesis describes phytochemical studies on the methanolic extract of Curcuma longa; a medicinally important plant used as indigenous medicine for the treatment of wounds in South Asian and African countries. The crude ...
Manitoba Populism and the Farmers' Movement in the Provincial Elections of 1920 and 1922
(University of Winnipeg, 1997-05)
The Political landscape in Manitoba experienced mammoth changes from 1920 to 1922. In 1920 the Manitoba Liberal party under the leadership of T.C. Norris had been in power for five years. During this period, this government ...
3-D Image Analysis via Jacobi Moments with GPU-Accelerated Algorithms
(University of Winnipeg, 2021-11-22)
This research has developed a parallel algorithm to compute 3-Dimensional Jacobi moments with high efficiency and accuracy. The algorithm was implemented in CUDA C. Our developing progress was in the order of Legendre ...