Bodily Health, Contaminants, and the Environment : Recognizing the Impacts of Industrial Pollution in Deindustrializing Sydney, Nova Scotia / Kristoffer Archibald. Montréal, Québec : Concordia University, 2016. 226 pages ; 29 cm.
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Throughout the twentieth century, the city of Sydney, Nova Scotia was home to a steel industry that polluted the air and contaminated the waterway of Muggah Creek, known in local parlance as the Tar Ponds. This dissertation examines public discourse surrounding the subject of industrial pollution in the deindustrializing city of Sydney, focusing between 1950 and 2014. It explores how diverse community interests--including those of steelworkers, local environmentalists, residents whose properties bordered the contaminated site, and members of the local business community--interpreted and responded to the pollution.
Sydney (N.S.) — Environmental Conditions
Sydney (N.S.) — Environmental Activism
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The Kents Of Tatamagouche / A.D. Kent. ; 1975. various pagings; 28 cm.
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Holiday Halifax - From the Canadian Magazine, vol. XXIX, 1907 1907. pages 413-416.
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Reformed Presbyterian Church in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia: or, the Covenanters in the Lower Provinces Walton, 1934. 68 pages.
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MacMechan, Archibald McKellar, 1862-1933
Mary Crowell… Toronto : Ryerson press, 1930. 24 pages.
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Province house… Halifax : Royal print & litho. , 1927. 9 pages.
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Nova Scotia-ness of Nova Scotia Halifax : Royal print & litho. Ltd., 1927. 12 1 pages.
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Nova Scotia Chap-Books prospectus
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John Growne: a biographical note (from Maclean's language notes. V. vi, No. 5, May 1891, pp. 278-286) 1891.
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Relation of Hans Sachs to the Decameron… Halifax : printing co., 1889.
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Rise of Samuel Cunard… Halifax : Review publishing co., 1929. 9 pages.
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Concerning the oldest English literature, inaugural address delivered at the Convocation of Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sept. 26th, 1889… Halifax : James Bowes, 1889. 22 pages.
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Testimonials of Archibald MacMechan B.A. (Toronto). Submitted with an application for the chair of English at Queen's college, Kingston… Baltimore, 1888. 12 pages.
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Centenary of Haliburton's Nova Scotia Halifax : the author, 1930. 15 pages.
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The saladin pirates / Archibald McKellar MacMechan. Toronto : The Ontario Pub. Co., 1914. 10 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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In: The Canadian Magazine, v. 42, No. 4, Feb. 1914.
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Poems Boston : Thomas Wiley, 1848. 200 pages
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Longfellow's country / by Helen Archibald Clarke. Toronto : Musson Book 1909. [6], 252 pages, [32] pages of plates: illustrations; 25 cm.
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Longfellow's county Toronto : Musson Book, 1909. [6], 252 pages, [32] l.
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Geology. New and rev. ed London : Macmillan and co., 1886. 154 pages
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Physical geography. New and rev. ed London : Macmillan and co., 1886. 143 pages
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MacKenzie, Norman Archibald MacRae, 1894-- ed
Canada and the law of nations New Haven, Toronto : Yale university press, Ryerson Press, 1938. 567 pages
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The dairy industry in Canada Toronto, New Haven, The Ryerson Press; Yale University Press; etc., etc. for the Carnegie endowment for international peace, Division of economics and history, 1937. 299 pages 25 cm.
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Drummond, William Malcolm
Ruddick, John Archibald, , 1862-
English, R. E
Lattimer, John Ernest.
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Bodily Health, Contaminants, and the Environment : Recognizing the Dangers of Industrial Pollution in Deindustrializing Sydney, Nova Scotia / Kristoffer Archibald. Montréal, Québec: Concordia University, 2016. 218 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm. Online.
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Academic theses. Throughout the twentieth century, the city of Sydney, Nova Scotia was home to a steel industry that polluted the air and contaminated the waterway of Muggah Creek, known in local parlance as the Tar Ponds. This dissertation examines public discourse surrounding the subject of industrial pollution in the deindustrializing city of Sydney, focusing between 1950 and 2014. It explores how diverse community interests including those of steelworkers, local environmentalists, residents whose properties bordered the contaminated site, and members of the local business community interpreted and responded to the pollution. The dissertation asks why industrial pollution became the object of heightened environmental and health anxieties in the late twentieth century, arguing that the corporeal impact of the pollution, within the context of the deindustrializing city, inspired an activist citizenry. For much of the twentieth century, Sydney's industrial pollution was equated with the local steel industry and the affiliated economic stability that came with unionized work at the mill. This perspective was challenged in the 1980s when unemployed mill workers sought compensation for a host of cancers and respiratory diseases that they attributed to having worked in a polluted environment. At the same time, environmental studies revealed Muggah Creek's troubling pollution levels. Issues of deindustrialization, environmental contamination, and health concerns intersected and sparked contentious local environmental debates. These reached their apex in the late 1990s, when a group of residents from Sydney's Frederick Street campaigned to be relocated on the basis that contaminants in the surrounding landscape had made them ill. The dissertation examines how the various interest groups cited their environmental and bodily observations as evidence of the problems associated with exposure to industrial contaminants, expressed concern for the well-being of the local youth, argued for social justice, and noted the past's shadow on the city's future. "Bodily Health, Contaminants, and the Environment" concludes by examining the 2004-2014 remediation project that reconfigured the Tar Ponds into Open Hearth Park, isolated the contaminants through the use of stabilization and solidification, and sought, with mixed success, to recalibrate the public's image of the landscape.
Hazardous waste site remediation — Nova Scotia — Muggah Creek Watershed
Coke-ovens — Environmental aspects — Nova Scotia — Sydney
Factory and trade waste — Environmental aspects — Nova Scotia — Sydney
Muggah Creek Watershed (N.S.) — Environmental conditions
Sydney Tar Ponds (N.S.) — Environmental conditions
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Mackintosh, William Archibald, 1895-
Economic problems of the Prairie provinces Toronto : Macmillan, 1935. 308 pages
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Mackintosh, William Archibald, 1895-
Prairie settlement, the geographical setting Toronto : Macmillan, 1934. 242 pages
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