Report provides comprehensive information on what affects air quality and compares different measures of air quality in various parts of Ontario.]]>
Host contact: Cox, Rick]]>
Department: Environmental and Resource Science/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]]>
Environmental studies]]>
Environmental Studies]]>
The study showed that 41% of market vendors self-report already avoiding single-use plastics. The most commonly reported single use plastic item at the markets was plastic bags. Customer surveys showed general support for reducing plastic at the markets and that most respondents would be willing to pay slightly more for more sustainable packaging ($0.05-$1.00). Recommendations for HCFMA include posting infographic for customers, creating vendor policies around plastic use, and potentially implementing a reusable dishes program and washing station, and/or conducting a waste audit.]]>
Angel Taylor & Gus Janca]]>
The paper provides information about metadata, paying particular attention to advantages and disadvantages of each standard, in order to help Haliburton County gather the necessary information to develop a new strategy for economic growth and social development.]]>
Farming
Food Systems]]>
A history of agriculture in Haliburton County, gained from both secondary and primary research, is outlined. Findings are discussed with regard to types of farming found, physical limitations imposed by the land itself, variations on conventional farming, and suggestions for possible future directions. A number of graphs complete the project.]]>
Environmental Studies]]>
The author begins with a literature review of trails, trail use, snowmobiling, legislation regulating snow machine use, and codes of ethics around trail use. Research methodology, employing interviews and questionnaires with snowmobile users and groomers, is outlined and results analyzed. There is a discussion of the results, and recommendations are put forward regarding the establishment of a code of ethics. The author's proposed code of ethics is included in the report.]]>
Host contact: Bisset, Jody]]>
Department: Geography]]>
Outlining the concept of bioregionalism as being about living relationships between humans and the natural environment, the author proposes that one of the most sustainable ways to express these relationships is through literature or oral narrative (bioregional narrative). Such literature includes written literature in the form of letters, journals, poems etc. as well as oral stories passed down from generation to generation and is based on the narrator's personal identification with his/her home place. The paper presents an explanation of the concept of bioregional narrative and moves on to a summary of the evolution of Canadian literature and more specifically, the evolution of Haliburton County narratives from the early settlement period through the twentieth century.]]>
Departments: Canadian Studies and Environmental Studies]]>
Natural Resources
Geography
Environmental Studies
Law and Policy]]>
Host contact: Morris, Malcolm]]>
Departments: Canadian Studies and Environmental Resource Science/Studies]]>
Purpose is to create a concise information handbook to help local organizations and landowners better understand the legislation.]]>
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Host contact: Ziman, Sheila]]>
Department: Geography]]>
Natasha Prytulka]]>
David Beresford, Biology]]>
USE OF THIS DOCUMENT IS RESTRICTED TO IN-HOUSE USE ONLY AT THE HALIBURTON COUNTY MUSEUM.
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Recognizing that archaeological data can offer valuable contributions to bioregional study in a given area, this report sets out to provide an archaeological master plan to aid in identifying, interpreting, and preserving the prehistoric archaeological resources in the vicinity of Haliburton.
A general overview of the evolution of prehistoric cultures in Ontario is followed by specific focus on those cultures believed to be in Haliburton County. The report looks at possible threats to heritage sites through development and water levels in the Trent-Severn Waterway as well as the need for heritage legislation in making decisions affecting heritage resources.]]>
Departments: Canadian Studies and Environmental Studies]]>
The artists presented are Mary Wallace, a fabric artist, potter Marjorie Cartwright, and stained-glass artist, Howard Smith. Colored photographs accompany the text.]]>
Departments: Canadian Studies and Environmental Studies]]>
Value of the arts to the county]]>
Although Paris is known for its very influential and attractive art scene, it is not the only art Mecca able to attract artists from all over. Haliburton today is home to a thriving arts community working in a wide range of media. These include drawing and painting, sculpture, stone carving, pottery, blacksmithing, quilting, weaving, rug making, metal work, jewelry, woodworking, leatherwork, print-making, stained glass, basket making, multi-media, commercial art, pen and ink, and photography just to name a handful.
There is indeed a need to strengthen the arts community to make it an even better and more viable economic contributor. In Haliburton, the overall potential for artists to find a "niche" so to speak is very encouraging as the respondents of the surveys indicate.]]>
Host contact: Bolin, Barb]]>
Departments: Canadian Studies and Environmental and Resource Science/Studies]]>