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The Reform Party of Canada was born out of a sense of frustration and disillusionment amongst a coalition of western Canadian businessmen and interest groups with what they regarded as the federal Progressive Conservative Party's disregard for the West's contributions to the political and economic well being of the country. Led by Preston Manning, the son of long-time Alberta Social Credit premier Ernest Manning, the coalition supported the creation of a western reform movement as a means of voicing the West's discontent and as an alternative to western separation. Some of the supporters of this idea advocated the creation of a new federal political party promising fiscal responsibility, provincial equality that allowed no special status for Quebec, and parliamentary reform which would include an elected Senate to represent the regions. In May 1987 the newly established Reform Association of Canada organised the "Western Assembly on Canada's Economic and Political Future" in Vancouver to air a reform agenda and to discuss the establishment of a new political party. The Assembly's 300 delegates voted 75% in favour of forming a new political party. In October of that year delegates gathered in Winnipeg to found the Reform Party of Canada, and elected Preston Manning as its leader. In the 1988 federal election, the Party fielded 72 candidates in the 88 ridings west and north of the Manitoba/Ontario border. Although none were elected, the Party succeeded in coming second in 15 ridings in Alberta, receiving 15% of the popular vote in that province. In March 1989 the Party elected its first Member of Parliament when Deborah Grey won a by-election held in Beaver River, Alberta. In the same year Reform candidate Stan Water's became the country's first "elected" senator. By 1990 the Party was a significant political force in the West. Hard campaigning against the Charlottetown Accord brought the Party to national attention. In the federal election of 1993 the Party upset the political establishment by electing 52 Reformers to sit in the House of Commons (including 22 of 26 seats in Alberta and 24 of 30 seats in British Columbia), helping to decimate the Progressive Conservatives in the process. In the 1997 general election Reform increased its seat total to 60, enough to install Manning in the office of the Leader of the Opposition. However, all of Reform's members were from west of Ontario. The Canadian political geography had split mostly along regional lines, with Reform in the West, the ruling Liberals in Ontario, and the Bloc Québécois in Quebec. Discontented with being perceived as a regional party, Manning proposed a radical solution. In September 1998 he initiated the "United Alternative" movement to bring together conservatives from all political backgrounds in an effort to "unite the right", produce a national party and end the vote splitting and stalemate that had resulted from the Progressive Conservative Party and the Reform Party running candidates in the same constituencies, thus allowing Liberal Party candidates to win ridings in which the majority of the electorate was right-wing. Two United Alternative conventions were held in 1999 and 2000 which lay the groundwork for a new party by bringing together supporters and organisers from a variety of right-wing parties, accepting policies, principles and a constitution that was drafted between the two conventions. On March 25, 2000 members of the Reform Party voted 92% in favour of dissolving their party and adopting the constitution of the new political party, and the Canadian Alliance was born.

Theses and disertations written by post graduate students in Masters and PhD programs at the University of Calgary are deposited in the University Archives by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and the Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS). The Faculty of Environmental Design administers the Masters degree programs it offers - all other graduate programs at the University are administered by the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Until Spring 2000, the Archives received its paper copies of EVDS Masters Degree Projects from the company contracted to mircrofilm the theses when filming was completed. Theses were formerly microfilmed through the National Library Micro Service. Theses are now microfilmed under the National Library's Canadian Theses Service. Microfiche copies of theses are retained in the University Library -- classification numbers in the description of individual theses in the Archives' theses database indicate the location of the microfiche within the micro collection of the Library (currently 3MLT). As of 1998 UofC theses are available to UofC personnel in PDF format via UMI's ProQuest website. In 1998 the University Archives took administrative control of the thesis collection -- this role was previously filled by the Special Collections Department of the University Library. In 1999, in anticipation of moving some of the theses to offsite storage, the collection was given the accession number of 58.002 to reflect the date of the earliest thesis received. All accessions of theses were amalgamated with 58.002 at that time.

Beverly Jean Rasporich was born in Pickle Crow, Ontario on 1 March 1941. She received her BA in English and Psychology from Queen's University (Kingston, Ont) in 1962. From 1963-1968 she taught high school in Ottawa. She later returned to university and received her MA in Victorian Literature in 1973 and her PhD in Canadian Literature in 1979 from the University of Calgary. From 1981-1982 Dr. Rasporich held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Canadian Studies, Carleton University. In 1985 she joined the teaching faculty staff at the University of Calgary as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of General Studies, rising to Professor rank in the Faculty of Communication and Culture (formerly General Studies) in 1992. Dr. Rasporich has served in several administrative positions: she was the Director of the Effective Writing Service at the University of Calgary (1983-1988), the Associate Dean of Academic Programmes (1988-1998), Acting Director of the Canadian Studies Programme (1996-1997) and of the Women's Studies Programme (1998-1999) -- all in the Faculty of General Studies. She served as acting Dean of the Faculty from 1998-1999. Dr. Rasporich's main teaching and research interests are Canadian Culture, including the literary and visual arts, the regional West, multiculturalism, Native literature and art and Canadian humour. She has published numerous articles and books on these subjects.

Anthony Gaetano Raphael Petti, 1932-1986?, was born in England. He attended the University College London and received a BA (Honours) in 1955 and an MA in 1957. In 1970 he received a DLit in Renaissance Literature, History, and Music from the University of London. He was an English lecturer at University College London from 1961 to 1969, and joined the English Department at The University of Calgary as a professor in 1969. He served as head of the Department from 1971 to 1974. His teaching also included lectures in English literature at the University of Oslo in 1961, and in paleography at The Newberry Library Summer Institute in the Archival Sciences in 1981. His area of scholarship included Medieval, Elizabethan and Jacobean literature, drama, paleography and music. He held a number of fellowships including the Killam Residential Fellowship, Calgary in 1977, and was director of the Calgary Renaissance Singers in the 1970s and 1980s. He published numerous articles and books, and was co-editor of the New Catholic Hymnal in 1972. He was married to Lorna Roswell and had at least one child.

Terence Michael Penelhum was born in Bradford-on-Avon, England on 26 April 1929. He received his early education at Weymouth Grammar School. From 1946-1950 he attended the University of Edinburgh, receiving his M.A. in Philosophy with First-Class Honours in 1950. In 1952 he received a B.Phil in Philosophy from Oriel College, Oxford where he was an Alexander Campbell Fraser Scholar. In 1952-1953 he was an English-Speaking Union Fellow at Yale University. Professor Penelhum began his teaching career in the Philosophy Department at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, where he was a Lecturer (1953-1955), an Assistant Professor (1955-1959), and an Associate Professor (1959-1963). In 1963 he joined the faculty at the University of Alberta, Calgary (which was established as the University of Calgary in 1966), where he was Associate Professor of Philosophy (1963-64), Professor of Philosophy (1964-1978), and Professor of Religious Studies (1978-88). Penelhum retired from the University of Calgary in 1988 and was distinguished with the title Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies. Throughout his career Professor Penelhum held numerous visiting teaching and non-teaching appointments at other institutions, including: University of California, Berkeley (summer 1958); University of Colorado, Boulder (summer 1960); University of Michigan, Ann Arbour (spring semester, 1961); University of British Columbia (summer 1963); University of Washington, Seattle (summer 1964); University of Washington, Seattle (Summer Institute 1968); University of Waterloo, Visiting Professor of Philosophy (1973-74); Visiting Scholar, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1980); Visiting Associate, Clare Hall, Cambridge (1982); Visiting Fellow, St. Edmund's College, Cambridge (1985); and Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (1989). At the University of Calgary Professor Penelhum held numerous administrative and service appointments. He was Dean of Arts and Science (1964-1967), head of the Philosophy Department (1964-1970), and director of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities (1976-1979). He served as a Faculty member on the Board of Governors (1967-1970), a member of the General Faculties Council (1963-1976), and chair of the Academic Policy Committee, the GFC-Library Committee and the Committee on Appointments, Promotions and Dismissals. Professor Penelhum also served on the General Promotions Committee, the Provincial Appraisals Committee on new graduate programmes, the Detomasi Committee on the role and structure of GFC and many others. In addition to his responsibilities at the University of Calgary, Professor Penelhum was involved in various other scholarly activities. He was the editor of The Canadian Journal of Philosophy (1970-76); the Canadian Representative on the Council for Philosophical Studies, American Philosophical Association (1969-74); President of the Canadian Philosophical Association (1968-69); Lecturer and Tour Leader for the World University Service of Canada Seventh International Seminar in Greece and Germany (1958); Danforth Seminar Fellow (1957 and 1958); held a Canada Council Post-doctoral Fellowship (1961-62), two Canada Council Leave Fellowships (1968-69; 1978), and three SSHRC Leave Fellowships (1980, 1982, 1985); was a member of the Advisory Academic Panel, The Canada Council (1971-75; chairman 1973-74); Chairman of the Negotiated Grants Committee, The Canada Council (1974-77; ex officio member as past chairman, 1977-78); Council member, Canadian Institute for Advance Research (1982-87); Canadian representative (nominated by Prime Minster Trudeau) to the conference on The Life Sciences and Humanity, sponsored by the Japan Foundation at the request of Prime Minister Nakasone, Hakone, Japan, March 19-22, 1984; and the first Canadian participant in the exchange lectureship program between The Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy: London, Cambridge, Edinburgh, March 1992. Professor Penelhum is the author of seven books: Survival and Disembodied Existence, Religion and Rationality, Problems of Religious Knowledge, Hume, God and Skepticism, Butler, and David Hume. In addition, he has edited three books: The First Critique (with J.J. MacIntosh), Immortality, and Faith. He has published nearly seventy professional articles on a wide variety of subjects, and has presented papers and comments at countless conferences throughout his career. Professor Penelhum has received honourary doctorates from four Canadian universities; Doctor of Humanities from the University of Lethbridge (1982); Doctor of Letters from Lakehead University (1982); Doctor of Letters from the University of Waterloo (1990); and Doctor of Laws from the University of Calgary (1991). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1975), and has received the Alberta Achievement Award (1987) and the Canada Council Molson Prize for the Humanities and Social Sciences (1988). Professor Penelhum married Edith Andrews (M.A. Edinburgh) in 1950; they had two children. He became a Canadian Citizen in 1961.