This paper is a history of the Science Academy of the Royal Society of Canada, from its foundation in 1882 until the early 1990s. The RSC has always had an honorific role, but it has sought a more substantive one in science, in advising government, in scientific publication (a role that it has largely lost to the National Research Council and to other scientific societies and journals), in educating the public, in representing Canada internationally, and in undertaking scientific inquiries of public import, for example in assessing the risks associated with nuclear winter, or in the Canadian Global Change Program. Often, Fellows of the RSC have individually achieved more in science than the Society has achieved institutionally; but as this ...
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A comparison of doctoral theses in progress in 1967 and 1985 reveals a number of trends in historica...
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The quarrel between Queen's University and the National Research Council in 1919 provides an opportu...
Dans cette étude, nous nous intéressons aux conditions sociales et institutionnelles de l'émergence ...
In the last century, the development of the social sciences in institutions of higher learning has b...
In 2017, the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) celebrated its 175th anniversary, just as the 150th a...
The history of the NRC is approached from two perspectives: first in terms of the historiographical ...
This article depicts the configuration of approaches to the scientific study of foreign policy and i...
The Science Council of Canada (1966-1992) operated as an ‘arms-length’ agency providing scien...
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En 2010, la Société canadienne de science économique (SCSE) célébrait son 50e anniversaire. Première...
Premier musée à vocation savante à Montréal, le musée de la Natural History Society of Montreal est,...
April 17, 1982, will be one of the most important dates in the history of Canadian federalism. On th...
Across OECD nations, public/private partnerships have recently become popular mechanisms in advancin...
Si les historiens des sciences et des techniques au Canada recourent fréquemment à la démarche compa...
A comparison of doctoral theses in progress in 1967 and 1985 reveals a number of trends in historica...
This article is about differing ideas of self-government in post-Confederation Canada. It looks in p...
The quarrel between Queen's University and the National Research Council in 1919 provides an opportu...
Dans cette étude, nous nous intéressons aux conditions sociales et institutionnelles de l'émergence ...
In the last century, the development of the social sciences in institutions of higher learning has b...
In 2017, the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) celebrated its 175th anniversary, just as the 150th a...
The history of the NRC is approached from two perspectives: first in terms of the historiographical ...
This article depicts the configuration of approaches to the scientific study of foreign policy and i...
The Science Council of Canada (1966-1992) operated as an ‘arms-length’ agency providing scien...
The author examines the forces that led to the creation of building societies in Canada. The rationa...
En 2010, la Société canadienne de science économique (SCSE) célébrait son 50e anniversaire. Première...
Premier musée à vocation savante à Montréal, le musée de la Natural History Society of Montreal est,...
April 17, 1982, will be one of the most important dates in the history of Canadian federalism. On th...
Across OECD nations, public/private partnerships have recently become popular mechanisms in advancin...
Si les historiens des sciences et des techniques au Canada recourent fréquemment à la démarche compa...
A comparison of doctoral theses in progress in 1967 and 1985 reveals a number of trends in historica...
This article is about differing ideas of self-government in post-Confederation Canada. It looks in p...