Does the border between the United States and Canada make a difference? To a political scientist it does for the obvious reason: the border defines two different political entities with different forms of government, different political customs and conventions. Two attempts in the first thirty years of the twentieth century to change the structure of the government of the City of Toronto illustrate the difference the border can make.The two proposals, commission government and city manager government, had originated with municipal reformers in the United States during the Progressive Era. The main idea behind both plans was to concentrate the executive and legislative authority in one governing unit. Commission and city manager government, ...
The Canada-US border crosses several villages in its Quebec segment. A few buildings are even built ...
L’annexion des municipalités adjacentes constitue une stratégie de croissance décisive à la fois pou...
Acts of domination are not always easy to identify, and in hindsight, the best intentions of post WW...
After Congress banned most Chinese immigrants and certain classes of other immigrants in the 1880s a...
On several occasions in the early twentieth century, advocates of urban planning proposed significan...
Entre 1900 et les années 20, période de la première grande expansion urbaine ce sont les municipalit...
The three decades leading up to World War I witnessed major shifts in the diplomatic relationship be...
In the nineteenth century, the tavern was an important institution in urban working-class life. Beca...
Beginning in the mid-1990s, municipal amalgamations were implemented by provincial legislation in Mo...
Entre 1912 et 1925, les municipalités ontariennes de Kitchener et de Waterloo ont connu, en matière ...
The urban form and local government organization of Canadian and American cities differ in consequen...
During the mid-to-late nineteenth century, the American Civil War, Canadian Confederation, transnati...
While scholars often emphasize traditionalism, ruralism and anti-statism as the "dominants" of Quebe...
This study examines the third, and final, moment in which the prospect of annexation to the United S...
Criticisms of the work of the City Engineer’s department by members of Toronto Council in 1891-92 le...
The Canada-US border crosses several villages in its Quebec segment. A few buildings are even built ...
L’annexion des municipalités adjacentes constitue une stratégie de croissance décisive à la fois pou...
Acts of domination are not always easy to identify, and in hindsight, the best intentions of post WW...
After Congress banned most Chinese immigrants and certain classes of other immigrants in the 1880s a...
On several occasions in the early twentieth century, advocates of urban planning proposed significan...
Entre 1900 et les années 20, période de la première grande expansion urbaine ce sont les municipalit...
The three decades leading up to World War I witnessed major shifts in the diplomatic relationship be...
In the nineteenth century, the tavern was an important institution in urban working-class life. Beca...
Beginning in the mid-1990s, municipal amalgamations were implemented by provincial legislation in Mo...
Entre 1912 et 1925, les municipalités ontariennes de Kitchener et de Waterloo ont connu, en matière ...
The urban form and local government organization of Canadian and American cities differ in consequen...
During the mid-to-late nineteenth century, the American Civil War, Canadian Confederation, transnati...
While scholars often emphasize traditionalism, ruralism and anti-statism as the "dominants" of Quebe...
This study examines the third, and final, moment in which the prospect of annexation to the United S...
Criticisms of the work of the City Engineer’s department by members of Toronto Council in 1891-92 le...
The Canada-US border crosses several villages in its Quebec segment. A few buildings are even built ...
L’annexion des municipalités adjacentes constitue une stratégie de croissance décisive à la fois pou...
Acts of domination are not always easy to identify, and in hindsight, the best intentions of post WW...