Dianne Newell

Fishing places, fishing people : traditions and issues in Canadian small-scale fisheries

Interdisciplinarity is the hallmark of Fishing Places, Fishing People. It proposes a radically different way of thinking about our current fishery problems and lays the groundwork for an alternative management approach to the fisheries. Comprised of entirely new material, the collection brings together the work of many highly-regarded scholars - historians, biologists, sociologists, anthropologists, consultants, geographers, and ecologists - to discuss this topical issue. Using case studies drawn from across Canada, they demonstrate that there are many shared issues in the various small-scale fisheries of this country, and locate Canadian small-scale fisheries in their historical context as well as in that of global ecological and policy concerns.

Dispersal and concentration: the slowly changing spatial pattern of the British Columbia salmon canning industry

The growth of staple industries has been essential to the development of Canada as a nation. Although the fishery is Canadas oldest staple industry, the rise of the Pacific salmon fishery, dominated by salmon canning, is a largely twentieth-century development. Most research into the Pacific salmon canning industry has focused on Alaska, and no systematic study has been made of the complete evolution of the industry there or elsewhere on the Pacific rim. Also, little is known about the ways in which the changing distribution of cannery operations was a consequence of ecological factors (including the nature of the resource), technological change, business competition, labor shortages, or marketing considerations. By taking a spatial and ecological perspective, and using various cartographic and other historical records, this study has been able to determine the timing and pattern of spread and contraction of the industry as it developed in British Columbia over a 100-year period, through three lengthy and distinctive phases of change.

Technology on the Frontier: Mining in Old Ontario

Technology on the Frontier: Mining in Old Ontario by Dianne Newell, Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1986. Pp 220; / Bushworkers and Bosses: Logging in Northern Ontario, 1900-1980 by Ian Radforth, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1987. Pp xxxi + 336. / Athabasca Oil Sands, Northern Resource Exploration 1875-1951 by Barry Glen Ferguson, Regina, Canadian Plains Research Centre/ Alberta Culture, 1985. Pp vi + 283.

Technological innovation and persistence in the Ontario oilfields: Some evidence from industrial archaeology

Abstract Latest technologies may not always be applicable to local situations. Pumping methods on the low‐yield Ontario oilfields are described to illustrate the persistence of a relatively primitive technology where there was no clear economic advantage in increasing the rate of flow. The same techniques are shown to have been in use in Europe in the seventeenth century, if not before.

Published government documents as a source for interdisciplinary history: A Canadian case study

Abstract Taken as a single category, published government documents constitute the richest and most comprehensive information base for investigating a countrys modern past. This paper explores the availability, range, and potential usefulness of published federal- and provincial-level Canadian governmental sources to 1925, paying particular attention to those materials most likely to be useful for investigating conditions and behavior over long periods of time. The documents published by the Canadian and the Ontario provincial governments are focused on as being representative of material which researchers should expect to find in documents published by other provinces and, in some degree, other governments in Western countries.