This Community-University Research Alliance Program focuses on four broad and interrelated themes that address many aspects of the Industrial City in Transition.
The four main themes are identifed below, with a list of the planned projects under each theme:
1. The People of Saint John: A Community and Neighbourhood Profile
Minorities in Transition: A look at the Black Community and Jewish Businesses of Saint John
The Irish in Greater Saint John
The Signfiicance of the Francophone Community in Greater Saint John
Historical Analysis of Saint John's Labour Force
The Morphology of Contemporary Saint John: A Demographic and Socio-Economics Profile of Greater Saint John
On-line Human Services Directory for Greater Saint John
2. The Environmental History of Saint John
Fishers and Fisheries in Saint John Harbour - A City in Transition
The Saint John River Watershed and Saint John Harbour: An Environmental History
The Effects of Industrialization on the Morphology and Distrubtion of Freshwater and Marine Features in Greater Saint John
A Paleolimnological Evaulation of Recent Lake Sediment Contamination in Response to Industrialization in Saint John
Outdoor Open Space History and Development, Saint John, NB.
3. Urban and Rural Planning and the Changing Shape of Greater Saint John
The Waterfront in Transition: 1785-2010
Twentieth-Century Saint John: The Built Environment
Post War Settlement Patterns in Portland Place: 1946-1951
A Rural Community in Transition: The Kingston Peninsula
Built Heritage: The Kingston Peninsula
Community and Economic Development on the Urban Fringe: Grand Bay-Westfield and Saint Martins: 1945-Present
Cultural and Rural Tourism and Community Economic Development
Visualizing Rural-Urban Boundaries: Where Does one Begin and the Other End?
Development of an Urban Neighbourhood Plan for Brookville-Torryburn
4. Cultural Representations of Greater Saint John
The Evolving Fiction of a Developing City
The Church in the City: An Index of Urban Change
Imagining and Inventing Saint John: The Evolution of Tourism Promotion in Greater Saint John
Jack Weldon Humphrey: Portrait of an Artist in Saint John, New Brunswick 1932-1967
New Brunswick Scientists in the Formative Period of Paleobotany