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Patrick A. Dunae

Degrees: Ph.D. Manchester

Email: pdunae@uvic.ca | Office: Clearihue

Research Areas

Applied History; British Columbia; Child Migration; Education History

Courses Taught

HIST 354A Northwest America to 1849

Brief Biography

Patrick Dunae earned his Ph.D at the University of Manchester. He has taught at the University of Alberta, University of Victoria, and Malaspina University-College and has worked as a public historian at the BC Archives and the State Archives of Western Australia. He's interested in using new technologies to distribute primary records and computer applications to create new perspectives on the past. He is the editor of The Homeroom, British Columbia's history of education web site, and a director of the Vancouver Island history web site, vi.History.ca.

Selected Publications

"Gender, Generations and Social Class: The Fairbridge Society and British Child Migration to Canada, 1930-1960," in Jon Lawrence and Patricia Starkey, eds., Child Welfare and Social Action: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2001).

"Making the 1891 Census in British Columbia," Histoire sociale/Social History, vol. 31 (1998).

Maps, Manuscripts & Multimedia: An Interactive Perspective on Local History, CD-ROM (Victoria: Centre for Curriculum & Professional Development, 1996).

The School Record: Government Archives relating to Education in British Columbia, 1852-1946, (Victoria: Ministry of Government Services, 1992).


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