Gerontology
Human Geography
Canadian Studies]]> Host contact: Reid, Heather]]> Department: Canadian Studies]]> Non-timber values in Haliburton Forest

]]> Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve Ltd
Host contact: Mrosek, Thorsten

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The state of community and school partnerships in Haliburton County is explored along with the attitudes of teachers and other administrators to such ideas. Future directions and implementation strategies for the proposed community involvement program are looked at with specific reference to Haliburton Highlands Secondary School. The paper concludes with a critique of the proposed program and suggestions for a positive partnership of community and school.]]> Departments: Canadian Studies and Environmental Studies]]> Geography
Recreation & Tourism]]> Host contact: Brohm, Amy]]> Department: Geography]]>
1) What invasive species have been sighted on or in lands adjacent to the HHLT properties: Fred and Pearl Barry Wetland, Barnum Creek Nature Reserve, Dahl Forest, Smith Forest, and Norah’s Island.
2) What invasive species could exist on or in lands adjacent to any of the above-mentioned properties?
3) What monitoring protocols are used by similar organizations and could be implemented by the HHLT to monitor their properties for invasive species?

The purpose of this project is to answer each of the HHLT research questions in order to better inform the land trust of the threat of invasive plants and potential ways to approach monitoring them in the future.]]> This paper presents an historical overview of the two railway lines operating in the Haliburton area in the late 1880s, the Victoria Railway running from Lindsay to Haliburton, and the Irondale, Bancroft & Ottawa line running from Howland Junction to Bancroft.  Beginning with a look at the history and impact of railways in Canada, the history of Haliburton County, and railway construction in general, the author moves to an in-depth account of each line.

Construction information is documented along with details of financing, problems faced, and portraits of each stop along the way.  Finally, the impact of each railway on the social and economic lives of the communities and later history is presented. The report concludes with recommendations for future use of the abandoned lines in ways which would continue to impact positively on both social and economic prosperity.

]]> Departments: Canadian Studies and Environmental Studies]]> Host contact: Martin, Fay]]> Department: Canadian Studies]]> Policy
Natural Resources
Physical Geography 
Environmental Studies]]> Beginning in 1861, members of the Mason family resided and worked the same farm in Stanhope Township for the next 134 years. For at least nine decades, three generations of the family kept the receipts from all their purchases and the author spent some time sifting through these receipts and cataloguing them into chronological and theme-related categories. From this, a picture of the day-to-day life of the family, a sense of their relationship to their local community, their networking with the larger world outside, and the agencies which facilitated the bridging of these two emerged. This paper outlines the process involved and presents a snapshot of the life of this family gleaned from the receipts.

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Child & Youth Studies
Assessment & Evaluation]]>
]]> Host contact: Tripp, Judy]]> Department: International Development Studies]]> An Arts-Based Approach]]> Sydney Munshaw
Tessa Pozzebon]]> Implications for the Lake Simcoe Watershed]]>
Not much research has been done on Main Street in this time period, which by many accounts has been regarded as Minden's heyday. The small business district along Main Street occupies the length of approximately one city block and is bordered by natural features at each end. It is a primary place of business and therefore, acts as the town's central meeting place. This is a good way to establish a connection to a particular place and build communities; at the same time our needs are met without placing an unnecessarily heavy burden on the land.]]> Host contact: Chivers, Sally]]> Departments: Environmental and Resource Science/Studies]]> Environmental studies]]> Departments: Canadian Studies and Environment Studies]]> Program Evaluation 
Child & Youth Studies
Mental Health]]>
The report begins includes a brief look at background information on PINT and on the accreditation process. How the CMHO accreditation process operates, and the advantages PINT will gain by becoming accredited are also discussed. These include standards relating to program evaluation, treatment, termination, prevention, formal research, quality assurance, accountability and clinical records.

This study aims to introduce suggestions for an evaluation framework that would aid PINT not only in becoming accredited, but that would also benefit the staff at PINT by providing them with information that they could use to better their services. Recommendations based on literature reviews, case studies, and staff interactions include: to write policy relating to evaluation for every program/area; to have one staff member in charge of quality assurance; mandatory audits of clinical records files; that future planning should include client feedback such as client satisfaction questionnaires; recording client satisfaction results in a database to be used for quality assurance data; using focus groups to gather feedback; and that PINT should begin the process of setting their standards and goals, and developing indicators to measure these goals.]]> Host contact: Cox, Marg]]> Department: International Development Studies]]>
Further, a ban would not improve lake water quality, as ADD's contribute a relatively small amount to total phosphorus loadings to most major lakes, between 2% and 10%. However, these studies have not looked specifically at the use of ADD's in cottage country, where septic systems are often inadequate to protect water from nutrient enrichment.]]> Host contact: Bishop, Val]]> Department: Environmental and Resource Science/Studies]]> Kushog Lake Identification and Inflow Analysis: Year 3]]> Centre for Community Based Research, this report is a summary of year three
of a multi-year project ground truthing all inflows into Kushog Lake. As the third
and final report in the ground truthing process, results of inflow verification along
the eastern shore, south of Ox Narrows, are detailed to confirm locations as
identified in the Glenside Ecological Services report, Kushog Lake Watershed:
Wetland and Stream Desktop Analysis (Heaven, 2011). New inflows absent from
the initial report are also mapped and analyzed, and locations and data for all
inflows identified throughout the life of the project (2011-14) are compiled for
review and comparison. Biomonitoring of benthic macroinvertebrates using the
Ontario Benthos Biomonitoring Network (OBBN) protocol continues the monitoring
of previous years, sampling three reference sites established in 2011-2012, and
initiating sampling at three new reference sites.]]> Devon Hennessy
Daphne Paszterko
Reuben Van Zeumeren]]>