These projects are the work of GEOG 2260 Applied Human Geography students from Winter 2021. This course is a qualitative research methods course where students were tasked with utilizing a number of research techniques to define and discuss the following prompt: “What is _____ Geography?” This group project was done entirely online and in addition to exploring the subdisciplines in depth, students were required to learn new communication tools.
For many of our geography students, a highlight of their degree is their participation in the annual field trip, which has been running since 1969. Below you can find photos from most of these trips.
Though we strive to keep the costs of participation manageable, for some students the field course is too great a cost. We are therefore grateful for a generous gift from Shauneen and Michael Bruder, graduates of the College of Social Science in 1980, which provides $3500 annually to support student participation in the field course.
When we embarked on the CANIND71 project 25 years ago, our main purpose was to make the rich resources of the 1871 census manuscripts accessible to other interested users. We could not imagine the ways in individual researchers might use personal computers to reach and search the entire database. When the manuscript information was first digitized, in the first phase of the project to 1990, we made the large CANIND71 database available mainly to university-based researchers who used mainframe computers for data analysis.
The 1871 Census of Canada covered the four established provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec, which had been united as the Dominion of Canada in 1867. Manitoba and Rupert’s Land (later the North West Territories), added to Canada in 1870, had been enumerated in a very basic census in that year. British Columbia and Prince Edward Island held their own independent censuses in 1871. British Columbia joined Canada towards the end of 1871, and Prince Edward Island entered in 1873.
Digitized from the manuscript schedules of the 1871 Census of Canada, the only detailed industrial census returns to survive so completely from the past
With more than 45,000 industrial establishments, each with up to 100 variables, including many that never appeared in the published census reports
Provides uniquely valuable snapshots of industrial activity just after Confederation, at a time of transition in technology, business organization and work discipline