A Maternity Roost of Silver-Haired Bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans) in New Brunswick: First Evidence of Parturition in Atlantic Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald F. McAlpine ◽  
Jenna L. Bullied ◽  
Pamela D. Seymour
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
Atlantic Canada ◽  
Maternity Roost ◽  
Lasionycteris Noctivagans

Prize and Prejudice

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faye Margaret Kert
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
North America ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
War Of 1812 ◽  
Atlantic Canada ◽  
Legal Evolution ◽  
Negative Reputation

This journal examines privateering and naval prizes in Atlantic Canada in the maritime War of 1812 - considered the final major international manifestation of the practice. It seeks to contextualise the role of privateering in the nineteenth century; determine the causes of, and reactions to, the War of 1812; determine the legal evolution of prize law in North America; discuss the privateers of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and the methods they utilised to manipulate the rules of prize making during the war; and consider the economic impact of the war of maritime communities. Ultimately, the purpose of the journal is to examine privateering as an occupation in order to redeem its historically negative reputation. The volume is presented as six chapters, plus a conclusion appraising privateering, and seven appendices containing court details, prize listings, and relevant letters of agency.

scholarly journals The Use of Clinical Practise Guidelines for Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Hospitals in Atlantic Canada

2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel G Campbell
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
Prince Edward Island ◽  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Standard Of Care ◽  
Community Acquired Pneumonia ◽  
Teaching Hospitals ◽  
Atlantic Canada ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Clinical Practise

BACKGROUND:Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have been shown to improve the care of patients presenting to hospital with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and are considered the 'standard of care'. The extent of adoption of CPGs in Canada is unclear.OBJECTIVE:To determine the use of CPGs by hospitals in Atlantic Canada (Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island).METHODS:Telephone survey of all hospitals listed in the Canadian Medical Directory as being situated in Atlantic Canada. Hospitals were included if they had all three of the following: an emergency department, x-ray facilities and acute care inpatient beds.RESULTS:Of 143 hospitals, 93 were included for analysis. Of these, 41 (44.1%) used CAP CPGs. Hospitals were less likely to be using CAP CPGs if they were smaller, rural or community hospitals, or if they did not have an intensive care unit. Of the four provinces, New Brunswick had the most hospitals using CAP CPGs (73.1%), while Newfoundland had the least (17.2%).CONCLUSIONS:Although larger teaching hospitals are using CAP CPGs, the degree of adoption of CPGs in smaller hospitals in Atlantic Canada is low. Efforts to produce standard CPGs that can be adapted to different sites, as well as implementation strategies, are indicated.

scholarly journals Impacts of studying in a regional medical campus on practice location

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. e44-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anouk Utzschneider ◽  
Michel Landy
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Atlantic Canada ◽  
Medical Database ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Regional Medical ◽  
Medical Program ◽  
Formation Médicale ◽  
Campus Principal ◽  
The Relationship

Background: New Brunswick, a bilingual Canadian province without a medical school, negotiated an agreement in 1967 in which places were reserved for francophone medical students in the province of Quebec. In 2006, the Centre de Formation Médicale du Nouveau-Brunswick (CFMNB), a regional medical campus (RMC) of Université de Sherbrooke for its provincial francophone medical students, was established to increase the likelihood of graduates setting up practice in the region. Practice locations of the initial 5 cohorts of CFMNB were analysed to compare data with francophone students trained in Quebec.Methods: Practice locations were determined through Scott’s Medical Database and provincial public registries.  Chi-square and relative risk probability were used to examine the relationship between training location and practice location.Results: Doctors trained at CFMNB were 1.4 times more likely to be practicing in Atlantic Canada compared to those trained at Université de Sherbrooke (main campus) before 2006. Those trained at CFMNB were 1.3 times more likely to go on to practice in the region compared to those trained at Université Laval or Université de Montréal. Conclusion: This study supports the hypothesis that individuals completing a medical program in a Francophone RMC in New Brunswick increases the likelihood of them later practicing in the province or in the wider Atlantic Canada region._______Contexte: Le Nouveau-Brunswick, une province canadienne bilingue ne possédant pas de Faculté de médecine, a négocié en 1967 une entente avec le Québec afin de réserver des places pour ses étudiants francophones souhaitant étudier la médecine.  En 2006, le Centre de formation médicale du Nouveau-Brunswick (CFMNB), un campus médical régional (CMR) de l’Université de Sherbrooke, a été créé afin de permettre aux Néo-Brunswickois d’étudier la médecine en français dans leur province.  L’un des objectifs principaux du CFMNB était d’augmenter les probabilités que les diplômés en médecine s’établissent dans la région.  Les lieux de pratique des médecins issus des 5 premières cohortes du CFMNB ont été analysés afin de les comparer avec ceux des médecins francophones d’origine néo-brunswickoise formés au Québec.Méthodes: Les lieux de pratique ont été déterminés via le répertoire des médecins Scott’s et les registres publics provinciaux.  Des tests de Chi carré et des analyses de risque ont été conduits afin d’étudier la relation entre le lieu de formation et le lieu de pratique.Résultats: Les médecins formés au CFMNB étaient 1.4 fois plus enclins à travailler au Canada atlantique comparativement à ceux formés au campus principal de l’Université de Sherbrooke avant 2006.  Les médecins formés au CFMNB étaient également 1.3 fois plus enclins à travailler dans la région que ceux formés à l’Université Laval ou à l’Université de Montréal.Conclusion: Cette étude supporte l’hypothèse selon laquelle le fait de compléter un programme de médecine francophone dans un CMR francophone au Nouveau-Brunswick augmente les chances de pratiquer au Nouveau-Brunswick ou dans la grande région du Canada atlantique. 

scholarly journals Wintercresses (Barbarea W.T. Aiton, Brassicaceae) of the Canadian Maritimes

2019 ◽  
Vol 133 (2) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Colin J. Chapman ◽  
C. Sean Blaney ◽  
David M. Mazerolle
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Exotic Species ◽  
Native Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Atlantic Canada ◽  
Maritime Provinces ◽  
Area Of Occupancy ◽  
Herbarium Collections

We conducted a review of herbarium collections of the Wintercress genus (Barbarea W.T. Aiton) from the Maritime provinces. Most specimens previously determined to be the regionally rare native species Erect-fruit Wintercress (Barbarea orthoceras Ledebour) are in fact the uncommon exotic Small-flowered Wintercress (Barbarea stricta Andrzejowski). The latter species is here reported as new to Atlantic Canada, where it is scattered but widespread in the three Maritime provinces. Only three collections (two from New Brunswick and one from Nova Scotia) were confirmed as B. orthoceras. Its known range extent and area of occupancy in the Maritimes has been significantly revised, and B. orthoceras is now considered potentially extirpated in New Brunswick and extremely rare in Nova Scotia. One collection from Nova Scotia was referred to another rare exotic species, Early Wintercress (Barbarea verna (Miller) Ascherson), which represents the first record for the Maritimes.

Speaking welcome: A discursive analysis of an immigrant mentorship event in Atlantic Canada

Ethnicities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1197-1217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristi A Allain ◽  
Rory Crath ◽  
Gül Çalışkan
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Atlantic Canada ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Business People ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Immigrant Settlement ◽  
Future Success ◽  
Economic Revitalization ◽  
Canadian Multiculturalism

This article offers an analysis of a business mentorship event in Fredericton, NB, which targeted immigrants sponsored through the New Brunswick Provincial Nominee Program (NBPNP)—an economic revitalization program designed to attract foreign business people and skilled workers to settle in the province. Applying Derrida’s concept of hospitality as a technology of whiteness, we examine the stated and implicitly understood expectations for the NBPNP, including the mechanisms at play for regulating newcomer’s behavior and comportment. We locate our analysis in the context of a regionally expressed Canadian multiculturalism, extending the relevance of our findings beyond Fredericton to Atlantic Canada. We ask: how do associated discourses of whiteness, multiculturalism and hospitality come into play to shape dynamics of power existing between hosts (settlement workers, various shadow state actors and mentor volunteers) and racialized newcomer guests? As a racialized threshold event, the Sip, Greet and Meet facilitated an exchange of hospitality such that the New Brunswick native hosts marked newcomers as perpetual arrivants, while holding the immigrants responsible for the success of their settlement in the Fredericton region. We show how the discourses regarding newcomers’ duties cleared nativist inhabitants of any accountability for the success of immigrant settlement. We also show how the process of welcoming conveyed a message that the future success of the local community, the province and even Atlantic Canada depended on the business class immigrants’ ability to serve as dutiful and grateful guests.

Species composition, distribution, and summer emergence phenology of stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera) from Catamaran Brook, New Brunswick

1996 ◽  
Vol 74 (7) ◽  
pp. 1260-1267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna J. Giberson ◽  
Heather L. Garnett
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Salmon ◽  
Species Composition ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Timber Harvest ◽  
Atlantic Canada ◽  
Base Line ◽  
Composition Distribution ◽  
Cone Type ◽  
Emergence Traps ◽  
Discharge Patterns

Stonefly (Plecoptera) emergence was investigated between May and September of 1993 and 1994 in Catamaran Brook, New Brunswick, as part of a base-line study to evaluate the effects of timber harvest on Atlantic salmon habitat in Atlantic Canada. Thirty-one stonefly species representing seven families were identified from Catamaran Brook, of which 8 were new provincial records. Eight species, all in the families Chloroperlidae and Leuctridae, were common in both years. The cone-type emergence traps used in this study appeared to adequately sample most stonefly species except the Perlidae. There was a pronounced seasonal progression of species emerging from the brook that was generally constant for both years. However, the abundance and timing of stonefly emergence were related to both temperature and discharge patterns. Generally earlier emergence in 1994 than 1993 was probably related to warmer water in 1994 than 1993, and lower abundance in 1994 was probably related to a reduction in habitat due to unusually low water in that year.

Accelerator-Mass-Spectrometer Ages for the Younger Dryas Event in Atlantic Canada

1993 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis E. Mayle ◽  
André J. Levesque ◽  
Les C. Cwynar
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
Mass Spectrometer ◽  
Younger Dryas ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Atlantic Canada ◽  
Bulk Sediment ◽  
Northwest Europe ◽  
Accelerator Mass Spectrometer ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Younger Dryas Event

AbstractIn Atlantic Canada, bulk-sediment dates for the onset of a late-glacial cooling, widely regarded as the Younger Dryas event, are highly variable, ranging from 14,300 ± 270 to 10,800 ± 100 yr B.P. We present the first accelerator-mass-spectrometer (AMS) 14C dates from Atlantic Canada, at or close to the boundaries of this event, from six sites in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The mean of five dates places the onset of this cooling at ca. 10,770 yr B.P.; the inclusion of a sixth, perhaps anomalously old date, changes the mean to 10,880 yr B.P. The termination averages (three dates) ca. 10,000 yr B.P. These dates place the timing of the Younger Dryas event in Atlantic Canada closer in line with the traditional chronozone boundaries of 11,000 and 10,000 yr B.P. in Northwest Europe.

New records of Melyridae (Coleoptera) from the Maritime Provinces of Canada

2005 ◽  
Vol 137 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher G. Majka
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
North American ◽  
New Records ◽  
Atlantic Canada ◽  
Maritime Provinces ◽  
The North ◽  
The World

The Melyridae (soft-winged flower beetles) are a diverse, abundant, and widespread family of beetles found throughout the world, with more than 300 genera and 6000 species worldwide (Mayor 2002). Melyrids are particularly abundant in dry, temperate regions of the world. Mayor's (2002) synopsis of the North American fauna includes 58 genera and 520 species. Bright (1991) tabulates 49 species in 14 genera in the Canadian fauna. Only one species, the introduced Palearctic Malachius aeneus (L.), was reported for Atlantic Canada, with records in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland.

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