Graduate History Theses (1969 to present)
Some theses produced by our students are available from the Library and Archives of Canada (LAC) in a downloadable PDF format. Please note the files are big and often exceed 5 mb. When possible, we have linked the title below to the appropriate file found on the LAC's "Theses Canada" website, click on the title. All MA theses are available at the Lakehead University Library and the Library and Archives of Canada.
Date | Author | Title | Supervisor |
2020 | Nicholas Duplessis | ||
2017 | Brandon J. Cordeiro | Short Circuit: Ontario’s Electrical Utilities, Northern Ontario, and The Metabolic Rift, 1906-1998 | |
2017 | Jenna Kirker | ‘A Matter of Principal’: Female involvement in Politics and Labour at the Lakehead, 1903-1918 | |
2016 | Amanda Oliveira | "The Coming and Going of Eugenics in Alberta: A Discarded History, 1928-1972" | |
2015 | Kimberly Donna Shirley | ||
2014 | Jonathan Foreman | "Race, Englishness and the Media: Depictions of Urban Rioting in England, 1980-81" | |
2013 | Jamie Nelemans | "The Canadian Forces and American Military Influence, 1963-1989" | |
2013 | Devon Tannahill | "Rise of the Machine: The Making of the Video Game Industry and Military Simulation" | |
2013 | Kyle Holomego | ||
2012 | Travis Hay | "Fictions of a Settler State: Indigenous and Iraqi Peoples in Canadian Newspapers, 1990-2010" | Kristin Burnett |
2012 | Matthew Sitter | "Violence and Masculinity in Hollywood War Films during World War II" | Kristin Burnett |
2009 | Leslie Praisley | Carl Young | |
2008 | Nicole Butzke | Ronald Harpelle | |
| 2007 | Charles Nathan Hatton | Ronald Harpelle | |
| 2007 | Rob Rombouts | A.E. Epp | |
| 2007 | Cheryl Shaw | Helen E.H. Smith | |
| 2007 | William P. Vinh-Doyle | "A Study of the Strike at Canada Safeway by Local 175 of the United Food and Commercial Workers" | Bruce Strang |
| 2004 | Mandy Hadenko | Patricia Jasen | |
| 2004 | Lana Maria Puumala | Bruce Muirhead | |
| 2003 | Michel Steven Beaulieu | ||
| 2002 | Christopher Ron Holmes | "Fighting an uphill battle: a history of public health reform in Fort William, 1892-1919" | Patricia Jasen |
| 2002 | Hendrik Matthew Warnar | A.E. Epp | |
| 2001 | Carrie Elizabeth Gibbons | ""Omens of good and evidences of evil": gender and respectability in the Thunder Bay Sentinel, 1875-1895" | Helen E. H. Smith |
| 2001 | Steven Arthur Earl Jobbitt | "Re-civilizing the land : conservation and postwar reconstruction in Ontario, 1939-1961" | Patricia Jasen |
| 2000 | John Alexander MacPhail | ""To hell with the future, let's get on with the past": rivalry and revitalization in the Lakehead's central business districts, 1947-1980" | Bruce Muirhead |
| 1999 | Tina Marie Davidson | "Hemlines and hairdo: body management for the feminine ideal in the Canadian Women's Army Corps" | Helen E.H. Smith |
| 1999 | James Joseph Ellard | ""From moribund to mobilized": the Lake Superior Regiment, 1920-1940" | Victor C. Smith |
| 1999 | Anne Maria Fisher | Thorold Tronrud | |
| 1998 | David Edward Achtenberg | "Some day they must unite : the amalgamation of Fort William and Port Arthur" | Patricia Jasen |
| 1997 | Gerald Gordon Ross | E.R. Zimmermann | |
| 1996 | Patrick Robert Chapin | "Northwestern Ontario gold mining, 1880-1902: the gold boom that didn't pan out" | A.E. Epp |
| 1996 | Margaret Elizabeth Frenette | "The great war's defeats: "doing your bit" on Thunder Bay's home front 1914-1919" | Patricia Jasen |
| 1995 | David Karl Ratz | "Soldiers of the shield : the 96th "District of Algoma" Battalion of Rifles, 1886-1896, a social and military institution" | Bruce Muirhead |
| 1994 | David Leo Black | "Northern lights: a history of Thunder Bay Hydro" | A.E. Epp |
| 1994 | Amanda Jane Louise Graham | "The University that wasn't : the University of Canada North, 1970-1985" | W.R. Morrisson |
| 1994 | Andrew J. Hacquoil | "'Let us all be optimistic from now on': Oscar Styffe Limited 1927-1945, the middleman of Northwestern Ontario and the pulp and paper trade" | Victor C. Smith |
| 1994 | Steven C. High | "A municipal ownership town: the organization and regulation of urban services in Port Arthur, 1875-1914" | Patricia Jasen |
| 1993 | Donald J. Auger | "Frontierism and metropolitanism in relation to development on the north shore of Lake Superior" | Bruce Muirhead |
| 1993 | Alison Frances Dacey | "Treaty 3 : the failure of the Canadian government to protect native treaty rights 1905-20" | Bruce Muirhead |
| 1993 | Ian Brian Walmark | "Alexander Morris and the Saulteaux : the context and making of treaty three, 1869-73" | Bruce Muirhead |
| 1993 | Gary Stuart Warwick | "The impact of the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway on the cities of Port Arthur and Fort William, 1959-1969" | Bruce Muirhead |
| 1990 | Ruth E. Hagglund | "Health care in 19th century Upper Canada/Ontario: adaptation of a British model" | Elizabeth Arthur |
| 1985 | Thomas E. Scott | A.E. Epp | |
| 1984 | David Shanahan | "Irish-Catholic journalists and the new nationality in Canada: 1858-1870" | Elizabeth Arthur |
| 1983 | David Tremblay | "The dimension of crime and punishment at the Canadian Lakehead, 1873-1903" | Elizabeth Arthur |
| 1982 | John Potestio | A.E. Epp | |
| 1978 | Constantine J. Tsekouras | "The Manitoba Free Press as an expression of contemporary perceptions of America, 1901-1909" | Elizabeth Arthur |
| 1977 | Antonio Pucci | "The Italian community in Fort William's East End in the early twentieth century" | Don Wilson |
| 1977 | Marina Robinson | "The child, the family, and society in Ontario, 1850-1900, according to four educational journals" | Don Wilson |
| 1976 | Marvin MacDonald | Elizabeth Arthur | |
| 1974 | William A. D. Hay | Elizabeth Arthur | |
| 1974 | Jean Morrison | "Community in conflict: a study of the working class in the Canadian Lakehead, 1903-1913" | Elizabeth Arthur |
| 1969 | R.H. Piovesana | Elizabeth Arthur |