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Building a Legend: The 'Skinny' on the Slender Man
(2013-04-18)
This paper explores folklorist Richard Dorson's distinction between folklore and 'fakelore'—that is, folklore-like material that has been created deliberately and mass-disseminated, often for monetary or ideological purposes. ...
Squares and overlaps in the Thue-Morse sequence and some variants
(EDP Sciences, 2006)
We consider the position and number of occurrences of squares in the Thue-Morse sequence, and show that the corresponding sequences are 2-regular. We also prove that changing any finite but nonzero number of bits in the ...
Financial Implications of Different Housing Tenure Arrangements
(The Institute of Urban Studies, 1972-10)
"Research Note I – Low Income Housing Series: Financial Implications of Different Housing Tenure Arrangements"
To Make Good Canadians: Girl Guiding in Indian Residential Schools
(University of Winnipeg, 2002-05)
Between 1910 and 1970, the Guide movement became active and, indeed, prolific in Indian residential, day, and hostel schools, sanatoriums, reserves and Northern communities throughout Canada. In these contexts, Guiding ...
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 ...
Final report of satisfactions in an urban neighborhood
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1971)
Housing Intervention and Neighbourhood Development: Harnessing Change in West Broadway
During the period leading to the early 1990s the West Broadway area of inner city Winnipeg experienced many signs of neighbourhood decline, such as residential fires, housing abandonment and structural deterioration. From ...
Investigating the Social Capital and Capacity of Older Adults in Rural Manitoba
(2008-01-01)
The report is composed of a review of the literature as well as key findings and
recommendations illustrating how seniors are contributing to their communities, the
factors that affect their involvement and the barriers ...
Screening Modernity: Cinema and Sexuality in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall On Your Knees
(University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, 2002)
In Fall on Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald writes early twentieth-century Cape Breton and New York through attention to the popular culture of the era, particularly in aspects of the visual, including paintings, photographs, ...
For the Record [Editorial]
(Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 2015)