Cape Breton Island's architectural landscape has a high percentage of "company housing" built for coal miners and their families in the early years of the twentieth century. By the 1930s, some of these dwellings were in poor condition. This paper examines one group of miners and their families who decided to embark on their own co-operative housing project in the 1930s, following the philosophy of the Antigonish Co-operative Movement. It explores how this group, while being prompted by a motivation to escape from the poor conditions of the company houses, chose to live in spaces familiar to them, following some of the spatial patterns common in the company houses. This housing development was very influential; it was the first co-operative ...
In the past, housing and homeownership have been used as media for social reform. This article looks...
Abstract Making Co-opville: Layers of Activism in Point St-Charles (1983-1992) Simon Vickers ...
This thesis examines household economies in the Bay of Islands from 1900 to 1935. Simple demograph...
Community-based co-operation has long been an important factor in promoting the con-struction of hou...
This thesis examines the vernacular architecture tradition of one region of Canada, the Codroy Valle...
The main activity of this trade union owned non-profit company is to finance and construct affordabl...
The subject of housing is a complex and multifaceted one in contemporary Canadian society, and urban...
This paper deals with the evolution of the Newfoundland fireplace and with the earliest forms of coo...
Emigrants from a limited geographical area, who formed cohesive colonies in early Canada are often a...
This article reviews the development of Robert Owen's community ideas with special reference to the ...
Little is known about working-class home ownership in Canada. On this issue the neglected 1931 Censu...
This paper analyzes an early 20th-century double or duplex farmhouse in the St. Mary’s River valley ...
A revolution took place in Sliammon, BC, between the late 1800s and 1970s. As with colonialism elsew...
Early in the 1940s, in response to a housing crisis compounded of lack of construction during the de...
From the study of excavations at Saglek Bay, construction of large rectangular sod-stone and whalebo...
In the past, housing and homeownership have been used as media for social reform. This article looks...
Abstract Making Co-opville: Layers of Activism in Point St-Charles (1983-1992) Simon Vickers ...
This thesis examines household economies in the Bay of Islands from 1900 to 1935. Simple demograph...
Community-based co-operation has long been an important factor in promoting the con-struction of hou...
This thesis examines the vernacular architecture tradition of one region of Canada, the Codroy Valle...
The main activity of this trade union owned non-profit company is to finance and construct affordabl...
The subject of housing is a complex and multifaceted one in contemporary Canadian society, and urban...
This paper deals with the evolution of the Newfoundland fireplace and with the earliest forms of coo...
Emigrants from a limited geographical area, who formed cohesive colonies in early Canada are often a...
This article reviews the development of Robert Owen's community ideas with special reference to the ...
Little is known about working-class home ownership in Canada. On this issue the neglected 1931 Censu...
This paper analyzes an early 20th-century double or duplex farmhouse in the St. Mary’s River valley ...
A revolution took place in Sliammon, BC, between the late 1800s and 1970s. As with colonialism elsew...
Early in the 1940s, in response to a housing crisis compounded of lack of construction during the de...
From the study of excavations at Saglek Bay, construction of large rectangular sod-stone and whalebo...
In the past, housing and homeownership have been used as media for social reform. This article looks...
Abstract Making Co-opville: Layers of Activism in Point St-Charles (1983-1992) Simon Vickers ...
This thesis examines household economies in the Bay of Islands from 1900 to 1935. Simple demograph...