Health & Well-Being

Looks at the effect traditional music has on health and well-being.

Discusses the only surviving medical ledgers in the 200-year history of the Hudson's Bay Company, which span the years 1846 to 1852 at the post; records indicate five per cent of case records were for Aboriginal peoples.

Topics include appropriate descriptive language, colonialism and trauma, seeking support, coping strategies, and resources.

Discusses how farmers and gardeners define food sovereignty and how the concept has been put into practice to attain the goals of promoting health and traditional culture.

Examines wellbeing program that empowers participants to be better able to take advantage of educational and employment opportunities.

Discusses the unique situation regarding health care needs and sociocultural experiences of Aboriginal veterans in hopes of providing better services and programs.

Five areas assessed: physical health and motor development, emotional health, social knowledge and competence, cognitive learning and language, and communication. Also provides overview of families in which children are growing up. Excerpt from The Well-Being of Canada's Young Children: Government of Canada Report. To access this section scroll to p. 39.

A vignette portrait of young Dr. J. H. C. Willoughby, prominent early Saskatoon doctor, realtor and community worker, who came here in 1883. He testified at Riel's trial 28 July 1885.

Discusses the difficult transition for a young ringer (stockman) at cattle station in Australia who lost his eyesight in an accident.

Educational Counselling Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2015.

Conference presentation by the former President of the National Inuit Youth Council advocates the creation of a separate government department for the Inuit.

Questionnaires of 267 participants determined the possibility of exposure to seven zoonotic diseases through handling of infected wildlife.