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This is a collection of essays focusing on the process of city-building in Canada. The authors weigh the relative broad social, economic and technological trends as they attempt to explain the shaping of this urban landscape.
The three chapters of this study are: Community development in Toronto's commercial empire, by Gilbert A. Stelter; The industrial towns of the Nickel Belt, 1883-1931, by Noel Beach, and Nickel capital: Sudbury and the Nickel industry, 1905-1925; and Espanola: the history of a pulp and paper town, by Eileen Goltz.
The emphasis is on urban society, with new essays on social structure, the family, ethnicity and immigration, and religion. Other sections are devoted to urban growth, the physical environment, and urban government and reform.
This collection of original essays serves both the historians and geographers who seek a deeper understanding of Canada's urban past, and the planners, politicians and citizens who seek to preserve or to change their cities today.
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