Dr. John C. Everitt, BA(Hons), MA, PhD (Professor Emeritus)
eMail: hotelcj@surfbvi.com
Research Profile



Academic Qualifications:

Ph.D.   University of California(1972), Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

M.A.   Simon Fraser University(1969), Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

B.A.(Honours)   University of Leicester(1967), England



Research Interests:

Commonwealth Carribean

Prairie Landscapes and Subcultures

Aging/Elderly

Small Settlements Studies

Changing Rural Lifestyles

Historical Aspects of the Grain Distribution System in the Prairies

Tourist Development


Recent Publications:

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

John Everitt, Presidential Address: Manitoba on the Mind - Myths and Realities of a Prairie Province The Canadian Geographer Vol. 42, No. 2, 1998: 114-129.

N.L. Chappell, M.J. Penning, B. Havens, John Everitt, R. Annis, H. Klein, and B. Kyle, Evaluating support services to seniors and partnering in research. Home Care Provider Vol. 3, No. 1, 1998: 30-46.

John Welsted and John Everitt, Water Games: The Location of Water-Based Sports Events at the 1997 Canada Games. Prairie Perspectives: Geographical Essays Vol. 1, 1998: 93-102.

John Everitt and Warren Gill, The Changing Geography of the Terminal Elevator: A Preliminary Analysis. Prairie Perspectives: Geographical Essays Vol. 2, 1999: 55-72.

John Everitt and John Welsted, Way Down Yonder, Down Mexico Way: Tourists, Snowbirds and Expats in Mexico. Prairie Perspectives: Geographical Essays Vol. 2, 1999: 179-189.

G. Lee Repko and John Everitt, Down by the Riverside: Recent Developments Along the Assiniboine Corridor in Brandon. Prairie Perspectives: Geographical Essays Vol. 2, 1999: 199-213.

Mark Rosenberg and John Everitt, Planning for Aging Populations: inside or outside the walls. Progress in Planning Vol. Vol 56, Part 3, 2001:119-168.

John Everitt and Ian Bowler, Say Cheese or Say Pies. Building and using 'place' in the Rural Heart of England. Prairie Perspectives: Geographical Essays Vol. 4, 2001: 130-141.

John Everitt, Rosa Chàvez-Dagostino, Carmen Cortés L., Amilcar Cupul-Magaña, Rodrigo Espinosa S., Luis F. González-Guevara, Rafael García de Quevedo-Machain, and Alma R. Raymundo-Huizar, Viva Vallarta! Impacts of the re-definition of a tourist resort in Jalisco/Nayarit, Mexico. Prairie Perspectives: Geographical Essays Vol. 4, 2001: 186-204.

Bryan Massam and John Everitt, What the People say: a study of quality of life in three towns in Jalisco, Mexico Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Vol. 10, 2, 2001: 293-316.

John Everitt, Changing Rurality in the Canadian Prairies: Post-Crow Farming in Manitoba. Small Town (forthcoming)

John Everitt, Agriculture and Rural Life in the Prairies of Canada: Evolution or Reinvention? Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien Band 41, Nr. 1-2, 2002:100-115.

Douglas Ramsey, Robert Annis and John Everitt, Definitions and Boundaries of Community: The Case of Focus Group Analysis in Southwestern Manitoba. Prairie Perspectives: Geographical Essays Vol. 5, 2002: 187-201.

Gregory Lewis, John Everitt and Dion Wiseman, A Spatial Analysis of Crime in Brandon, Manitoba. Prairie Perspectives: Geographical Essays Vol. 5, 2002: 255-269.

John C. Everitt and R. Douglas Ramsey, Reviving central Brandon in the early twenty-first century. The Canadian Geographer Vol. 46, No. 3: 266-274.

ARTICLES IN EDITED VOLUMES

Darrell Napton, Nigel Walford, and John Everitt Continuity and Change in the Developed Countryside in Nigel Walford, John Everitt and Darrell Napton (eds.) Reshaping the Countryside: Perceptions and Processes of Rural Change. 1999 (Wallingford, Oxon: CABI Publishing): 1-11.

Ian Bowler and John Everitt, Production and Consumption in Rural Service Provision: The Case of the English Village Pub in Nigel Walford, John Everitt and Darrell Napton (eds.) Reshaping the Countryside: Perceptions and Processes of Rural Change. 1999 (Wallingford, Oxon: CABI Publishing): 147-156.

John Everitt, Rurality is dead, long live rurality: Rural and small town life on the Canadian prairies. In C. Stadel ed. Themes and Issues of Canadian Geography III Salzburger Geographische Arbeiten, Band 34 (Salzburg: University of Salzburg) 1999: 23-42.

John Everitt, A Closer Look: The Canadian Grain Elevator. In Tom L. McKnight Regional Geography of the United States and Canada Third Edition (New Jersey: Prentice Hall) 2001: 292-293.

John Everitt, Brandon, Manitoba. In Encyclopaedia of the Great Plains (Forthcoming)

Ian Bowler and John Everitt, Analysing Discourses on Genetically Modified Food. In K Kim, I Bowler and C. Bryant eds. Developing Sustainable Rural Systems (Pusan, Korea: Pusan National University Press) 2001: 155-162.v

Doug Ramsey and John Everitt, Post Crow Farming in Manitoba: An analysis of the wheat and hog sectors. In Roger Epp and Dave Whitson eds. Writing Off the Rural West (Edmonton, Alberta: University of Alberta Press and Parkland Institute) 2001: 3-20.

Doug Ramsey, Bob Annis and John Everitt, Rural Community in Westman: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations. In Raymond Blake and Andrew Nurse eds. The Trajectories of Rural Life: New Perspectives on Rural Canada (Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center) 2003: 1-10.

EDITED VOLUMES

Nigel Walford, Darrell Napton, and John Everitt (eds.) Reshaping the Countryside: Perceptions and Processes of Rural Change. 1999. (Wallingford, Oxon: CABI Publishing).

REPORTS AND MONOGRAPHS

Barbara Gfellner and John Everitt (eds.) Determining Seniors' Independence: A Profile of Brandon and the Westman Region Working Paper No. 3 (Brandon: Brandon University Press) 1998: 67pp. + Appendices.

Douglas Ramsey, John Everitt, Betty Havens, Fran Racher and Kenneth Bessant, Conceptual and operational definitions of rural and remote populations in Canada. (Working Paper #2, SSHRC Grant #828-1999-1029.) Brandon University, Rural Development Institute, 2000.

John Everitt and Kenneth Bessant, Brandon: Community Services Needs Assessment Survey Report Prepared for City of Brandon by the BU Rural Development Institute, May 2003.