Review of A Family of Brothers: Soldiers of the 26th New Brunswick Battalion in the Great War by J. Brent Wilson

Review of A Family of Brothers: Soldiers of the 26th New Brunswick Battalion in the Great War by J. Brent Wilso

A European union and Canadian review of public health nursing preparation and practice.

This study explores the preparation and role of the public health nurse (PHN) across European Union (EU) countries (Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom) and Canadian provinces (Alberta, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island)

Military Aid to the Civil Authority in the mid-19th Century New Brunswick

During the mid–19th century, the role of the military in New Brunswick began to change. Although its primary function remained defence against invasion, the civil power called on it with increasing frequency; first the British regulars and later the militia assisted in capacities ranging from fighting fires to policing. Nevertheless, as New Brunswick changed from colony to province, the militia did not automatically replace the imperial garrison. Civil authorities were reluctant to call on it, and volunteers assumed this role only after the regulars departed in 1869. This article first examines the types of disorder that occurred between the 1830s and the 1870s. It next considers the 18 known instances during this period when the civil authorities called out British regulars and provincial (ie., county–based) militias to aid them. It finaly looks at factors that discouraged such use of the militia

Le régime juridique des langues dans l'administration publique au Nouveau-Brunswick

Linguistic rights in New Brunswick have progressed since the enactment of the Official Languages of New Brunswick Act of 1969. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has caused the entrenchment of some linguistic guarantees in the Constitution and has provided for judicial enforcement. Collective rights have also been given legislative sanction through the passing, in 1981, of An Act Recognizing the Equality of the Two Official Linguistic Communities in New Brunswick, and new legislation to replace the 1969 Act has now been proposed in a recent government-sponsored study. This paper looks at the legal consequences of these enactments in relation to public administration in New Brunswick

The Long Wait (Part I): A Personal Account of Infantry Training in Britain, June 1942–June 1943

In the early summer of 1942, Harold (Hal) MacDonald, a young infantry officer from Saint John, New Brunswick, was posted overseas to join the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment, then stationed in Great Britain. The North Shores were part of a growing Canadian military presence in Britain, preparing for the day when the Allies would return to the continent to help defeat the armies of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. Canadian troops had begun to arrive in England in 1939, and indeed, after the fall of France in the late spring of 1940, formed an important part of Britain’s defence forces at a time when it and the Commonwealth stood alone against the combined might of Germany and Italy. By the time that MacDonald arrived, the number of Canadian troops had swelled to some 130,000, for the most part concentrated in the south of England, where they underwent rigorous training exercises and highly realistic simulated battles designed to prepare them to meet the enemy

Broadbanding Brunswick: High-speed broadband and household media ecologies

New research from the University of Melbourne and Swinburne University has found that 82% of households in the NBN first release site of Brunswick, Victoria, think the NBN is a good idea. The study, Broadbanding Brunswick: High-speed Broadband and Household Media Ecologies, examines the take-up, use and implications of high-speed broadband for some of its earliest adopters. It looks at how the adoption of high-speed broadband influences household consumption patterns and use of telecoms. The survey of 282 Brunswick households found there had been a significant uptake of the NBN during the course of the research. In 2011, 20% of households were connected to the NBN and in 2012 that number had risen to 34%. Families, home owners, higher income earners and teleworkers were most likely to adopt the NBN. Many NBN users reported paying less for their monthly internet bills, with 49% paying about the same. In many cases those paying more (37%) had elected to do so.Download report: Broadbanding Brunswick: High-speed Broadband and Household Media Ecologies [PDF, 2.5MB] Download report: Broadbanding Brunswick: High-speed Broadband and Household Media Ecologies [Word 2007 document, 5MB

A No-Go Theorem in String Cosmology

A no-go theorem pertaining to the graceful exit problem in Pre-Big-Bang inflation is reviewed. It is shown that dilaton self-interactions and string fluid sources fail to facilitate branch changing necessary to avoid singularities. A comment on the failure of the higher genus corrections to induce graceful exit is also included.Comment: 7 pages, latex, no figures, contributed talk at the 6th Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, May 24-2

The Saskatchewan/New Brunswick Healthy Start-Départ Santé intervention: implementation cost estimates of a physical activity and healthy eating intervention in early learning centers

Training sessions by year and community size (large, medium, small and rural) in Saskatchewan. Table S2. Training sessions by year and community size (large, medium, small and rural) in New Brunswick. Table S3. Booster Sessions by year and community size (large, medium, small and rural) in Saskatchewan.Table S4. Booster Sessions by year and community size (large, medium, small and rural) in New Brunswick. (PDF 271 kb

La cassure linguistique et identitaire du Canada français

Depuis la dislocation du Canada français dans les années 1960, une divergence se creuse entre ses éléments. Alors que la vitalité du français, langue principale à la maison, se renforce au Québec et au Nouveau-Brunswick, elle s’affaiblit ailleurs au Canada. De même, elle progresse à Montréal, Moncton et Gatineau mais recule à Toronto, Sudbury et Ottawa. Les données inédites du recensement de 2001 touchant les langues secondaires au foyer indiquent en outre que le comportement bilingue est le plus souvent de nature additive parmi les francophones du Québec et du Nouveau-Brunswick, tandis qu’il joue le rôle d’étape transitoire vers l’anglicisation dans les autres provinces. En parallèle avec la cassure en matière de comportement linguistique, il s’est développé une divergence identitaire : au contraire des jeunes de langue maternelle française du Québec et du Nouveau-Brunswick, ceux de l’Ontario et des autres provinces s’identifient comme bilingues plutôt que francophones.Since the dislocation of French Canada in the 1960s, there has been a growing divergence between its components. While the vitality of French, as the main language spoken in the home, has been strengthening in Québec and in New Brunswick, it has been weakening elsewhere in Canada. Similarly, it is growing in Montréal, Moncton and Gatineau, but shrinking in Toronto, Sudbury and Ottawa. New unpublished data from the 2001 census on second languages within the home indicate furthermore that bilingualism most often takes the form of an additional skill among Francophones in Québec and New Brunswick, whereas it plays a transitional role toward anglicization in the other provinces. Alongside the split in terms of language behaviour, a divergence of identity has developed: in contrast to young people whose mother tongue is French in Québec and New Brunswick, those in Ontario and the other provinces identify themselves as bilingual rather than as Francophones

Production Structure, Technological Change and Scale Economies in the Saw and Planing Mills Industry in New Brunswick, Canada

The translog cost function approach is employed to characterize the production structure and to estimate the rate of technical change and technical bias in the saw and planing mills industry (SPM) in the New Brunswick Province. The findings are that the production structure of the saw and planing mills in Canada is neither homothetic nor homogenous implying potential scale induced distortion in the input mix. Morishma elasticity of substitution estimates show that in the existing technology of the saw and planing mills in New Brunswick, labor can more easily be substituted by capital than capital by labor. Moreover, the amount of round wood that is required to complement labor is higher than that required to complement energy and capital, which indicates that a labor intensive technology choice in the SPM industry is more round wood consuming than the capital and energy intensive technologies. These results coupled with the increasingly stringent environmental regulations indicate that the relative use of labor compared to other inputs is likely to decline in the saw and planing mills industry. Hence, in view of their cost minimizing behavior, the saw and planing mills in New Brunswick will sooner or latter start to replace labor with energy or capital. The saw and planing mills in New Brunswick exhibited fairly high economies of scale during the period 1965-1995, but the rate of technical change has been found to be negative.Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,