Hurricane Hazel: Disaster relief, politics, and society in Canada, 1954-55

Journal of Canadian Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Robinson, Danielle ^a   Cruikshank, Ken ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.3138/jcs.40.1.37     Document Type: Article

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