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Sherry Olson
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Latest papers
Dwellings, crowding, and tuberculosis in Montreal.
Social science & medicine (1982) · 2006
Latest funding
- $61,790
Public Houses and Hidden Networks of Sociability in Mid-19th Century Montreal
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
- $12,156
Public Houses and Hidden Networks of Sociability in Mid-19th Century Montreal
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
- $178,536
Social mobility in two Canadian cities, 1880-1914
SSHRC · 2006 · Co-investigator
1 publications.
Dwellings, crowding, and tuberculosis in Montreal.
Wanyeki I, Olson S, Brassard P, Menzies D, Ross N, Behr M, Schwartzman K
Public Houses and Hidden Networks of Sociability in Mid-19th Century Montreal
Principal investigators: Poutanen, Mary Anne
Keywords: urban social networks; kinship in politics; women entrepreneurs; neighbouring
Public Houses and Hidden Networks of Sociability in Mid-19th Century Montreal
Principal investigators: Poutanen, Mary Anne
Keywords: urban social networks; kinship in politics; women entrepreneurs; neighbouring
Social mobility in two Canadian cities, 1880-1914
Principal investigators: Gilliland, Jason A.
Keywords: social mobility; geographic mobility; social capital; access to schooling; property ownership; segregation; immigration; urbanization; geographic information systems; urban historical geography; London- Ontario; Montreal
Design and practice: tuberculosis in Montreal, 1880-2002
Principal investigators: Adams, Annmarie
Keywords: tuberculosis; design; hospital; contagion; architecture; health; space; material culture; medicine; ventilation; professionalization; practice
Adaptations of youth in the industrializing city: Montreal 1840-1900
Principal investigators: Gauvreau, Danielle
Keywords: youth; transitions; Montreal; demographic regime; family; work; migration
Urban work: transforming the Montreal time-space
Principal investigators: Olson, Sherry
Keywords: Work-spaces; infant mortality; urban environment; urban history; neighborhoods; industrialization; family history; urban-rural migration
Montreal families and their country cousins, 1840-1900
Principal investigators: Olson, Sherry
Keywords: Historical geography; historical demography; urban history; family history; inheritance; urban-rural exchange
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Kevin Schwartzman and Dick Menzies: 32 shared papers
- Marcel Behr and Kevin Schwartzman: 22 shared papers
- Marcel Behr and Dick Menzies: 18 shared papers
- Kevin Schwartzman and Paul Brassard: 13 shared papers
- Marcel Behr and Paul Brassard: 5 shared papers
- Paul Brassard and Dick Menzies: 3 shared papers
- Marcel Behr and Nancy Ross: 1 shared paper
- Marcel Behr and Sherry Olson: 1 shared paper
- Nancy Ross and Kevin Schwartzman: 1 shared paper
- Nancy Ross and Paul Brassard: 1 shared paper
- Nancy Ross and Sherry Olson: 1 shared paper
- Kevin Schwartzman and Sherry Olson: 1 shared paper
- Paul Brassard and Sherry Olson: 1 shared paper
- Dick Menzies and Sherry Olson: 1 shared paper
- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
- Department of Geography
- Department of Medicine
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Marcel Behr
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
1 shared papers, latest 2006
Nancy Ross
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
1 shared papers, latest 2006
Kevin Schwartzman
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
1 shared papers, latest 2006
Paul Brassard
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
1 shared papers, latest 2006
Dick Menzies
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2006
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