Dr. Anthony J. Ward

• Chair, Tourism and Environment
• Associate Professor, Economics

Contact information

award@brocku.ca
Offices: MC C-417 / PLZ 439
1-905-688-5550 x 3117

Recent resume (PDF format)

Courses taught

TREN 2P28: Economics of the Environment
I have taught many Economics courses. Most recently I have focused on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and on Health Economics, taking an international and public health perspective, looking at the impact of economic factors on health and well being.

Research Interests

• development on Indian reserves on the Canadian Prairies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Selected publications and presentations

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<em>My current research focus is on the development on Indian reserves on the Canadian Prairies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Prairie Indians had lost their previous source of livelihood, the bison, so they needed an alternative. As they were pushed onto reserves, both Indians and the government anticipated that they would farm, but they were not successful. Indians encountered extensive racism, but the biggest factors that held them back were badly specified property rights and the collapse of their social capital.</em>