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Item type:Item, Gender, family, and gradual abolition in Upper Canada and northern slavery, 1760-1833(University of New Brunswick, 2026-04) Gismondi, Christopher; Hunt-Kennedy, Stefanie; Nelson, Charmaine A.While both Indigenous and Transatlantic slaveries existed in British North America and New France, Loyalist expansion after the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), entrenched slavery in Upper Canada. This site remained underexamined in Canadian slavery studies with most recent scholarship on Quebec and the Maritimes. My project unpacks the uniqueness of northern slavery and resistance in Upper Canada by examining the impact of expanding Loyalist slavery on enslaved family life through a gendered and feminist perspective. Combining art historical and historical approaches, I explore Upper Canada slavery through archives alongside visual art and material culture. Through a focus on reproduction, family, childhood, and defiance, I extend the study of slave resistance to northern slavery where bondspeople engaged in unique forms of resistance in quotidian ways. My analysis of Upper Canada slavery is complimented by other northern, slave-minority demographic sites like New York, Pennsylvania, New France, the Canadian Maritimes, and Britain. In debunking the myth that northern slavery was benevolent, I examine how gender, reproduction, and family were exploited in northern slavery during the age of abolition via gradual emancipation laws, like Upper Canada’s passed in 1793. The burden to gradually eradicate slavery was passed onto enslaved women’s reproduction, while access to exploitable Black labour was continued. Enslavers in Upper Canada historiography allegedly “hedged their losses” by selling their enslaved property to American buyers after the law passed. This assumptive thesis was mostly unchallenged given the limited archival data for the region and administrative turbulence. The narrative that enslavers immediately sold their property after 1793 displaced slavery from Canadian history and negated the very real and continued impact of slavery during the age of abolition as it was experienced and resisted by enslaved women and families. This dissertation disputes generations of scholars of northern slavery who have dismissively characterized children and pregnancy as a “hindrance” on the economic viability of relatively smaller, northern slave estates. Yet enslaved women’s reproductive potential in gradual abolition laws was the mechanism of transition from bondage to freedom. Instead, flashes of enslaved peoples’ everyday bravery exist in an unfinished and partial archive complimented by interdisciplinary sources.Item type:Item, Childhood Trauma, PTSD, and Substance Use: The mediating role of positive and negative urgency(University of New Brunswick, 2026-05) Scherf, Julia; Brunelle, CarolineChildhood trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are highly comorbid with substance use. This co-occurrence may be explained by increased levels of positive urgency and negative urgency (i.e., impulsive actions in response to intense positive/negative emotions) in those with trauma exposure and/or PTSD. This study aimed to clarify how childhood trauma subtypes, PTSD symptom clusters, and urgency relate to substance use/problems, and whether urgency facets mediate the relationship between specific PTSD symptom clusters and substance use/problems. A sample of 299 participants (Mage = 27.39, SD = 12.46; 61.5% female) was recruited from the University of New Brunswick and through a crowdsourcing platform. In hierarchical regressions, PTSD avoidance symptoms emerged as a significant predictor of nicotine problems and polysubstance use. CTQ physical neglect predicted cannabis problems, nicotine and alcohol use frequency, and polysubstance use. Negative urgency predicted alcohol use frequency, while positive urgency predicted polysubstance use. In mediation analyses, negative urgency fully mediated the relationship between PTSD avoidance, intrusion, and hyperarousal symptoms and alcohol problems. Positive urgency partially mediated the association between all PTSD symptom clusters and polysubstance use. Clinically, these findings suggest that PTSD symptoms are implicated especially in alcohol problems and polysubstance use, but that contributors to this substance use pattern are distinct. Negative urgency appears to be a target of intervention for individuals with PTSD symptoms and alcohol problems, while positive urgency may be more important for individuals with PTSD symptoms who experience polysubstance use.Item type:Item, Providing Digital Literacy Education Opportunities: An examination of research opportunities with digital literacy for children(University of New Brunswick Promise Partnership, 2024) Gaudet, Derek; Saeedi, Kate; Kerr, CatherineItem type:Item, Promise Partnership Needs Assessment(University of New Brunswick Promise Partnership, 2025) MacDonald, Jordan; Earle, Emily; Saeedi, KateItem type:Item, Transition to permanent residency and retention in New Brunswick of temporary foreign workers with Information and Communications Technology (ICT) skills(DataNB, 2026-07-13) McDonald, Ted; Miah, Pablo; Nemeroff, SamNew Brunswick’s ability to sustain a competitive digital economy depends in part on how effectively the province attracts, transitions, and retains skilled Information and Communications Technology (ICT) workers. Temporary foreign workers represent an important component of this labour supply, making it essential to understand their pathways into the province and their longer term settlement patterns. This report examines the role of temporary foreign workers with ICT skills in New Brunswick’s labour force. Using linked administrative data sets – including Permanent Resident Data, Transition Data, and Citizen Data – the study analyzes the pathways through which ICT skilled temporary foreign workers enter the province, the rates at which they transition to permanent residency, and their subsequent retention in New Brunswick. Findings show that ICT skilled temporary foreign workers represent a small but consistent share of temporary workers in the province. Transition rates to permanent residency vary by work permit stream, with higher conversion among workers in the International Mobility Program than those in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Among those who become permanent residents, short term retention is relatively strong, though longer term retention declines over time. These results contribute to a broader understanding of how temporary migration supports New Brunswick’s ICT workforce and the factors shaping long term settlement.
