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Canadian Museum of Civilization. Online resources for Canadian Heritage, Geography and Local History. An excellent site, searchable by province and city.
Conzen, Michael and T.A. Rumney and Graeme Wynn. A Scholar's Guide to Geographical Writing on the American and Canadian Past (1993).
Fortin, Marcel, Lorraine Dubreuil, and Cheryl Woods. Canadian Fire Insurance Plans in Ontario Collections, 1876-1973 (1995).
Harris, Richard and Ben Moffatt. "How Reliable is the Modern City Directory?" Canadian Geographer 30 (2, 1986), 154-158.
Robson, Robert. Canadian Single Industry Communities: A Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography (1986).
Shaw, Gareth. "Directories as Sources in Urban History: A Review of British and Canadian Material," Urban History Yearbook (1984), 36-44.
University of Saskatchewan Archives. Municipal, County, and Community Archives. A fine site for archival sources on the internet.
Bloomfield, Elizabeth. "Community, Ethos and Local Initiative in Urban Economic Growth: Review of a Theme in Canadian Urban History,"Urban History Yearbook, 1983, 53-72.
Bourne, Larry S. "Normative Urban Geographies: Recent Trends, Competing Visions, and New Cultures of Regulation," Canadian Geographer, 40 (1, 1996), 2-16. A thoughtful analysis of current approaches in urban geography. Unfortunately, he ignores historical geography which has had an important impact on urban history. Bourne's notion of the distant past appears to be about 1951 or 1961.
. Davis, Donald. "The 'Metropolitan Thesis' and the Writing of Canadian Urban History," Urban History Review 14 (Oct., 1985), 95-114. A categorization of various approaches to metropolitanism and a conclusion that "class" is a more effective basis of explanation than "city."
Stave, Bruce. "A Conversation with Gilbert A. Stelter: Urban History in Canada,' Journal of Urban History, 6 (Feb., 1980), 177-210. Includes a discussion of the pioneer days of urban history.
Stelter, Gilbert. "A Regional Framework for Urban History," Urban History Review, 13 (Feb., 1985), 193-206. An approach to metropolitanism that outlines four levels of analysis: the international, the national, regional, and local urban systems.
-----------. "A Sense of Time and Place: The Historian's Approach to Canada's Urban Past," in Carl Berger, ed., Contemporary Approaches to Canadian History(1987), 165-80. Now quite dated. For an updated version, see the next item below.
------------. "Introduction to Urban History in Canada," Module 2 of Reading a Community: Urban History at the Local Level, a fourth year urban history course at the University of Guelph (1997). This module categorizes approaches and also has a section on the professional organization of urban history in Canada.
Voisey, Paul. "Urban History," in Doug Owram, ed., Canadian History, A Reader's Guide, Vol. 2. Confederation to the Present (1994), 228-245.
Wallace, Carl. "Communities in the Northern Ontario Frontier," in Matt Bray and A. Thompson, eds., At the End of the Shift: Mines and Single-Industry Towns in Northern Ontario (1992), 5-18.
Artibise, Alan. "Canada as an Urban Nation," Daedalus 117 (Fall, 1988), 237-64.
Careless, J.M.S. "The Rise of Cities in Canada before 1914," Canadian Historical Association Booklet (1978).
---------. Frontier and Metropolis: Regions, Cities and Identities in Canada before 1914 (1989). A summation of his views on metropolitanism.
Dasgupta, Satadel, ed. The Community in Canada: Rural and Urban (1996).
Goldberg, Michael and John Mercer. The Myth of the North American City: Continentalism Challenged (1986). Argue that Canadian and American cities are very different because of basic cultural differences.
Lemon, James T. Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits: Great Cities of North America Since 1600 (1996). A major comparison of the Canadian and American urban past, using Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Toronto as case studies.
Marshall, J. "Population Growth in Canadian Metropolises: 1901-86," in F.Frisken, ed. The Changing Canadian Metropolis (1994).
McCann, L.D. ed. Heartland and Hinterland: A Geography of Canada (1982).
McCann, L.D. and Smith, P.J. "Canada Becomes Urban: Cities and Urbanization in Historical Perspective," in Trudi Bunting and Pierre Filion, eds. Canadian Cities in Transition (1991), 69-99. A very useful overview and interpretation.
Nader, George. Cities of Canada 2 vols. (1975 and 1976). The historical portions are useful but sadly inadequate in terms of issues urban historians deal with.
Stelter, Gilbert. "The City-Building Process in Canada," in Gilbert Stelter and Alan Artibise, eds., Shaping the Urban Landscape: Aspects of the Canadian City- Building Process (1982), 1-29.
Frisken, F. ed. The Changing Canadian Metropolis (1994). 2 vols.
Stelter, Gilbert ed. Cities and Urbanization: Canadian Historical Perspectives (1990).
--------- and Artibise, Alan. eds., The Canadian City: Essays in Urban and Social History 2nd ed. (1984).
--------- and ---------. eds., Power and Place: Canadian Urban Development in the North American Context (1986).
--------- and ---------. eds., Shaping the Urban Landscape: Aspects of the Canadian City-Building Process (1982).
Acheson, T.W. Saint John: The Making of a Colonial Urban Community (1985).
Armstrong, Frederick. A City in the Making: Progress, People, and Perils in Victorian Toronto (1988).
---------. The Forest City: An Illustrated History of London, Canada (1986).
Artibise, Alan. Winnipeg: A Social History of Urban Growth, 1874-1914 (1975).
---------. Winnipeg: An Illustrated History (1977).
Baldwin, Douglas and Spira, Thomas eds. Gaslights, Epidemics, and Vagabond Cows: Charlottetown in the Victorian Era (1988).
Brennan, J.William. Regina: An Illustrated History (1989).
Careless, J.M.S. Toronto to 1918: An Illustrated History (1983).
English, John and McLaughlin. Kitchener: An Illustrated History (1983).
Evenden, L.J. Vancouver: Western Metropolis (1986).
Foran, Max. Calgary: An Illustrated History (1978).
Hesketh, Robert and Frances Swyripa, eds. Edmonton: The Life of a City (1995).
Jackson, John N. and Sheila Wilson. St. Catharines, Canada's Canal City (1993). One of the most comprehensive histories of a smaller Canadian city.
Kerr, Don and Hanson, Stan. Saskatoon: The First Half Century (1982).
Lemon, James. Toronto since 1918: An Illustrated History (1985).
Linteau, Paul-Andre. Histoire de Montreal depuis la Confederation (1992).
------. Breve histoire de Montreal (1992).
Lockwood, Glenn. Smiths Falls: A Social History of the Men and Women in a Rideau Canal Community, 1794-1994 (1994).
MacDonald, Norbert. Distant Neighbours: A Comparative History of Seattle and Vancouver (1987).
MacGregor, James. Edmonton: A History (1975).
McDonald, Robert A.J. and Jean Barman, eds. Vancouver Past: Essays in Social History (1986).
O'Neill, Paul. The Story of St. John's, Newfoundland 2 vols. (1975-76).
Osborne, Brian and Swainson, Donald. Kingston: Building on the Past (1988).
Price, Trevor and Larry Kulisek. Windsor, 1892-1992, A Centennial Celebration (1992).
Robert, Jean-Claude. "Montreal, 1821-1871, Aspects de l'Urbanization," Thesis, Ecole des hautes etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1977.
-------. Atlas historiques de Montreal (1994).
Roy, Patricia. Vancouver: An Illustrated History (1980).
St. Denis, Guy, ed. Simcoe's Choice: Celebrating London's Bicentennial, 1793-1993 (1992).
Senior, Elinor Kyte. From Royal Township to Industrial City: Cornwall, 1784-1984 (1984).
Stelter, Gilbert. "What Kind of City is Edmonton?" in Robert Hesketh and Frances Swyripa, eds. Edmonton: The Life of a City (1995).
Taylor, John. Ottawa: An Illustrated History (1986). One of the best of the Museum of Civilization series. A sophisticated analysis, suggesting that Ottawa's history is the product of three relatyed themes - fragmentation, marginality, corporate dominance.
Tronrud, T.J. and A.E.Epp, eds. Thunder Bay from Rivalry to Unity (1995).
Wallace, C.M. and Thomson, A. eds., Sudbury: Railtown to Regional Capital (1993).
Weaver, John. Hamilton: An Illustrated History (1982). An excellent biography, based on a critical perspective, unlike the usual material available on Hamilton, such as Sherry Sleightholm, Hamilton: A Community in Symphony (1986), which is simply unabashed boosterism.
Wynn, Graeme and T.R.Oke, eds. Vancouver and its Region (1992).
Adams, Annmarie. "Eden Smith and the Canadian Domestic Revival," Urban History Review 21 (March, 1993), 104-15.
Arthur, Eric. Toronto, No Mean City 3rd ed., revised by Steve Otto (1986).
Baker, Michael, ed.. Downtown London: Layers of Time (1998). Useful collection of essays on various elements of the downtown's evolution.
Boddy, Trevor. "Regionalism, Nationalism, and Modernism: The Ideology of Decoration in the Work of John. M. Lyle," Trace 1 (No. 1, 1981), 8-15.
Bronson, Susan. "The Three R's: Restoration, Renovation and Recycling," in Brian Demchinsky, ed. Grassroots, Greystones and Glass Towers: Montreal Urban Issues and Architecture (1990), 154-167.
Buggey, Susan. "Building Halifax, 1841-1871," in Gilbert Stelter and Alan Artibise, eds., Shaping the Urban Landscape: Aspects of thr Canadian City-Building Process (1982), 232-55.
Carr, Angela. Toronto Architect Edmund Burke: Redefining Canadian Architecture (1995).
Carter, Margaret.ed. Town Halls of Canada (1987).
-------. ed. Early Canadian Court Houses(1983).
Caulfield, Jon. City Form and Everyday Life: Toronto's Gentrification and Critical Social Practise (1994).
Cohen-Rose, S. et al. Art Deco Architecture in Canada: Part I, Montreal (1995).
Cook, Jenny. "Bringing the Outside In: Women and the Transformation of the Middle-Class Maritime Canadian Interior, 183-1860," Material History Review 38 (Fall, 1993), 36-49.
Cortiula, Mark. "Houses of the Healers: The Changing Nature of General Hospital Architecture in Hamilton, 1850-1916,"Histoire sociale/Social History, 55 (May, 1995), 27-50.
Decoursey, Elaine et al. Saskatoon Imagined: Art and Architecture in the Wonder City (1989). Based on an exhibition at the Mendel Art Gallery, very useful outline of the architectural history of this city.
Dendy, William. Lost Toronto: Images of the City's Past (1978; 1993).
Greenberg, Kenneth. "Toronto: The Unknown Grand tradition," Trace 1 (No. 2, 1981), 37-46
Fountain Foundation, Downtown Hamilton : The Heart of It All (1995). A Collection of short essays and photographs of Hamilton's central area, with a useful foreword by John Weaver.
Kalman, Harold. A History of Canadian Architecture 2 vols. (1994). The most thorough look at major buildings in Canadian cities.
Kidd, Martha and Taylor, Louis. Historical Sketches of Peterborough (1988).
Lambert, Phyllis. "Land Tenure and Concepts of Architecture and the City: Milton-Park in Montreal," in Gilbert Stelter and Alan Artibise, eds., Power and Place: Canadian Urban Development in the North American Context (1986), 133-50.
Liscombe, R.W. The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963(1997).
Litvak, Marilyn. Edward James Lennox, Builder of Toronto (1995).
Maitland, Leslie and Taylor, Louis. Historical Sketches of Ottawa (1990).
Marsan, Jean-Claude. Montreal in Evolution: Historical Analysis of Montreal's Architecture and Urban Environment (1981).
Mays, John Bentley. Emerald City: Toronto Visited (1994). Collected from his Globe and Mail columns. Some insight into the relationship between architecture and a community's culture.
McArthur, Glenn and Annie Szamosi, William Thomas, Architect, 1799-1860(1996).
McKendry, Jennifer. With Our Past Before Us: Nineteenth-Century Architecture in the Kingston Area (1995).
Melnyk, Brian P. Calgary Builds: The Emergence of an Urban Landscape, 1905-1914 (1985).
Ring, Dan, ed. The Urban Prairie (1993). Essays and views based on an exhibit illustrating the evolution of Prairie cities.
Segger, Martin and Douglas Franklin. Exploring Victoria's Architecture (1996).
Sharpe, C.A. "Preserving Housing and Heritage in St. John's," Canadian Geographer, 39 (1995), 75-82.
Stelter, Gilbert. "The Architect and the Community: W. Frye Colwill and Turn of the Century Guelph," Historic Guelph 33 (September, 1994), 5-34.
---------. "Henry Langley and the Making of Gothic Guelph," Historic Guelph 28 (September, 1989), 4-29.
---------. "The Carpenter\Architect and the Ontario Townscape: John Hall, Jr., of Guelph," Historic Guelph 30 (September, 1991), 4-20.
Tausky, Nancy and DiStefano, L.D. Victorian Architecture in London and Southwestern Ontario (1986).
Tausky, Nancy. Historical Sketches of London, From Site to City (1993).
Westfall, William and Thurlby, Malcolm. "Church Architecture and Urban Space: The Development of Ecclesiastical Forms in 19th Century Ontario," in D. Keane and C. Read, eds., Old Ontario: Essays in Honour of J.M.S.Careless (1990), 118-47.
Wetherell, Donald and Irene Kmet. Homes in Alberta: Building, Trends and Design, 1870-1967 (1991).
Young, Carolyn. The Glory of Ottawa: Canada's First Parliament Buildings (1995).
Alessio, Dominic. "Capitalist Realist Art: Industrial Images of Hamilton, Ontario, 1884-1910," Journal of Urban History 18 (August, 1992), 442-469.
Anderson, Robin. " On the Edge of the Baseball Map' with the 1908 Vancouver Beavers," Canadian Historical Review 77 (Dec., 1996), 538-74.
Bailie, Douglas. "Cinemas in the City: Edmonton from the Nickelodeon to the Multiplex," Prairie Forum, 21 (Fall, 1996), 239-62.
Benn, Carl. "The Military Context of the Founding of Toronto," Ontario History 81 (December, 1989), 303-22.
Bouchier, Nancy. "Idealized Middle Class Sport for a Young Nation: Lacrosse in 19th Century Ontario Towns," Journal of Canadian Studies 29 (Summer, 1994) 89-110.
Burgess, Joanne. "The Growth of a Craft Labour Force: Montreal Leather Artisans, 1815-1831," in Laurel S. MacDowell and Ian Radforth eds. Canadian Working Class History: Selected Readings (1992), 39-52.
Burley, D. A Particular Condition in Life: Self Employment in Mid-Victorian Brantford (1994).
Caulfield, Jon. "The Growth of the Industrial City and Inner Toronto's Vanished Church Buildings," Urban History Review 23 (March, 1995), 3-19. How industrial urbanism led to the abandonment or reuse of many of Toronto's inner city churches.
Carleton University History Collective. Urban and Community Development in Atlantic Canada (1994).
Carson, Neil. Harlequin in Hogtown: George Luscombe and Toronto Workshop Productions (1995).
Clarke, Brian. Piety and Nationalism: Lay Voluntary Associations and the Creating of an Irish Catholic Community in Toronto, 1850-1895 (1993).
Clubine, Christopher. "Motherhood and Public Schooling in Victorian Toronto," Ontario History, 88 (Sept., 1996), 169-84.
Dehli, Kari. "Love and Knowledge: Adult Education on the Toronto Home and School Council, 1916-1940," Ontario History 88 (Sept., 1996), 207-28.
Dagenais, Michele. "Vie culturelle et pouvoirs publics locaux. La fondation de la bibliotheque municipale de Montreal," Urban History Review, 24 (March, 1996), 40-56.
Fingard, Judith. The Dark Side of Life in Victorian Halifax (1989).
----------. Jack in Port: Sailortowns of Eastern Canada (1982).
Freeman, Bill and Marsha Hewitt, eds., Their Town: The Mafia, The Media, and the Part Machine (1979). A controversial expose of Hamilton city politics.
Goheen, Peter. "Negotiating Access to Public Space in Mid-Nineteenth Century Ontario," Journal of Historical Geography 20 (Oct., 1994) 430-49.
Heron, Craig. "The High School and the Household Economy in Working Class Hamilton, 1890-1940," Journal of Historical Education, 7 (Fall, 1995), 217-60.
Howell, Colin D. "Baseball, Class and Community in the Maritime Provinces, 1870-1910," Histoire sociale\Social History 22 (nov., 1989), 265-86.
-------. Northern Sandlots: A Social History of Maritime Baseball (1995).
Igartua, Jose. Arvida au Saguenay: Naissance d'une ville industrielle (1996).
Joyal, Renee. "L'Acte concernant les ecoles d'industrie (1869): une mesure de prophylaxie sociale dans un Quebec en voie d'urbanisation," Revue d'histoire de l'Amerique francaise, 50 (Autumn, 1996), 227-40.
Katz, Michael. The People of Hamilton, Canada West: Family and Class in a Mid-19th Century City (1975). The path-breaking work on class in Canadian cities, although his case study was not nearly as representative as he assumed it to be.
Levine, Marc. The Reconquest of Montreal: Language Policy and Social Change in a Bilingual City (1990).
Manley, John. " Starve, Be Damned!': Communists and Canada's Urban Unemployed, 1929-39," Canadian Historical Review 79 (Sept., 1998), 466-91.
McCann, L.D. "Class, Ethnicity. and Residential Differentiation in Mid-Victorian Halifax," in R.E. Preston and B. Mitchell, eds., Reflections and Visions: 25 Years of Geography at Waterloo (1990), 240-265.
McDonald, Robert A.J. Making Vancouver: Class, Status, and Social Boundaries, 1863-1913(1996). Effectively demonstrates that class and status interpretations are both necessary in order to understand the complexity of social differences.
Marks, Lynn. Revivals and Roller Rinks: Religion, Leisure and Identity in Late-Nineteenth Century Small-Town Ontario (1996).
McGowan, Mark and Brian Clarke eds. Catholics at the 'Gathering Place': Historical Essays on the Archdiocese of Toronto, 1841-1991 (1993).
Morton, Suzanne. Ideal Surroundings: Domestic Life in a Working Class Suburb in the 1920s (1995).
Mott, Maurice. "One Solution to the Urban Crisis: Manly Sport and Winnipeggers, 1890- 1914," Urban History Review 12 (Oct., 1983), 57-70.
Nicolson, Murray. "The Other Toronto: Irish Catholics in a Victorian City, 1850-1900," in Stelter and Artibise, Canadian City, 328-59.
---------. "Ecclesiastical Metropolitanism and the Evolution of the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto," Histoire sociale\Social History 15 (May, 1982), 129-56.
Stelter, Gilbert A. "The New Cultural History and Urban History" H-NET Review Essay (August, 1998), based on Keith Walden, Becoming Modern in Toronto (1997).
Sutherland, Neil and Barman, Jean. "Out of the Shadows: Retrieving the History of Urban Education and Urban Childhood in Canada," in R. Goodenow and W.E. Marsden, eds., The City and Education in Four Nations (1992).
Thorton, P.A. and Sherry Olson. "Family Contexts of Fertility and Infant Survival in 19th Century Montreal," Journal of Family History, 16 (N0. 4, 1991), 401-17.
Van Die, Marguerite. " The Marks of a Genuine Revival': Religion, Social Change, Gender, and Community in Mid-Victorian Brantford, Ontario," Canadian Historical Review 79 (Sept., 1998), 524-63.
Walden, Keith. Becoming Modern in Toronto: The Industrial Exhibition and the Shaping of a Late Victorian Culture (1997).A major work in the new cultural history, emphasizing efforts at the "construction of meaning."
Weaver, John. "Society and Culture in Rural and Small-Town Ontario: Alice Munroe's Testimony on the Last Forty Years," in Roger Hall, William Westfall, and Laurel MacDowell, eds., Patterns of the Past: Interpreting Ontario's History (1988), 381-403.
Young, Brian. George-Etienne Cartier: Montreal Bourgeois (1981).
Babcock, Robert H. "Private vs. Public Enterprise: A Comparison of Two Atlantic Seaboard Cities, 1850-1925," in Gilbert Stelter and Alan Artibise, eds., Power and Place: Canadian Urban Development in the North American Context (1986), 51-81. Saint John, New Brunswick and Portland, Maine.
Bray, Matt. "A Company and a Community: The Canadian Copper Company and Sudbury, 1886-1902," in Bray and A. Thomson, eds., At the End of the Shift (1992), 23-44.
Bloomfield, Elizabeth. "Community Leadership and Decision-Making: Entrepreneurial Elites in Two Ontario Towns," in Stelter and Artibise, Power and Place, 82-105. Kitchener/Waterloo.
Bloomfield, Gerald and Elizabeth Bloomfield. " 'Our Prosperity Rests Upon Manufactures': Industry in the Central Canadian Urban System, 1871," Urban History Review 22 (May, 1994) 75-96.
Coffey, W. The Evolution of Canada's Metropolitan Economies (1994).
McCann, L.D. "Fragmented Integration: The Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company and the Anatomy of an Urban-Industrial Landscape, c. 1912," Urban History Review 22 (May, 1994) 139-58.
-----. "Shock Waves in the Old Economy: Maritime Cities and the Great Transformation, c. 1867-1939," in G.J. De Beneditti and R.H. Lamarche, eds. Shock Waves: The Maritime Urban System in the New Economy (1994).
Robson, Robert. "Flin Flon: A Study of Company-Community Relations in a Single-Enterprise Community," Urban History Review 12 (February, 1984).
Rudin, Ronald. "Montreal Banks and the Urban Development of Quebec, 1840-1914," in Stelter and Artibise, Shaping the Urban Landscape, 65-83.
Tronrud, Thorold. Guardians of Progress: Boosters and Boosterism in Thunder Bay, 1870-1914 (1993).
Voisey, Paul. Vulcan: The Making of a Prairie Community (1988). Useful for understanding the economic connections between town and country.
Young, Brian. In Its Corporate Capacity: The Seminary of Montreal as a Business Institution, 1816-1876 (1986).
-------. Promoters and Politicians: The North-Shore Railways in the History of Quebec, 1854-1885 (1978).
Anderson, Kay. Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980 (1995).
Bobier, Richard. "Africville: The Test of Urban Renewal and Race in Halifax, Nova Scotia," Past Imperfect, 4 (1995), 163-80.
Fingard, Judith. "From Sea to Rail: Black Transport Workers and Their Families in Halifax, c. 1870-1916," Acadiensis, 24 (Spring, 1995), 49-64.
Frager, Ruth. Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939 (1992).
Harney, Robert. ed., Gathering Place: Peoples and Neighbourhoods of Toronto, 1834-1945 (1985).
---------. "Ethnicity and Neighbourhoods," in Gilbert Stelter, ed. Cities and Urbanization: Canadian Historical Perspectives (1990), 225-45.
---------. "Toronto's Little Italy, 1885-1945," in Robert Harney and V. Scarpaci, eds., Little Italies in North America (1981), 41-62.
---------. "Montreal's King of Italian Labour: A Case Study of Padronism, Labour\Le Travailleur 4 (1979), 57-84.
------. ed. "Toronto's People," special issue of Polyphony 6 (Summer, 1984).
--------- and Harold Troper, Immigrants: Portrait of the Urban Experience (1975).
Iacovetta, Franca. Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto (1992).
Lai, David. Chinatowns: Towns within Cities in Canada (1988).
Murdie, R. "Economic Restructuring and Social Polarization in Toronto: Impacts on an Immigrant Population," in J. O'Loughlin and J. Friedrichs, eds., Social Polarization in Post-Industrial Metropolises (1997).
Petroff, Lillian. Sojourners and Settlers: The Macedonian Community in Toronto to 1940 (1995).
Potestio, John and Antonio Pucci, eds. "Thunder Bay's People," special issue of Polyphony 9 (No. 2, 1987).
Ray, Brian. "Immigrant Settlement and Housing in Metropolitan Toronto," Canadian Geographer, 38 (3, 1994), 262-5.
Stefura, Mary ed. "Sudbury's People," special issue of Polyphony 5 (Summer, 1983).
Thompson, Richard. Toronto's Chinatown: The Changing Social Organization of an Ethnic Community (1989).
Zucchi, John. Italians in Toronto: Development of a National Identity, 1875-1935 (1988).
Adams, Mary Louise. "Almost Anything Can Happen: A Search for Sexual Discourse in the Urban Spaces of 1940s Toronto," Canadian Journal of Sociology 19 (No. 4, 1994) 217-32.
Bradbury, Bettina. Working Families: Age, Gender and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal (1993).
Davis, Donald and Barbara Lorenzkowski. "A Platform for Gender Tensions: Women Working and Riding on Canadian Urban Public Transit in the 1940s," Canadian Historical Review 79 (Sept., 1998), 431-62.
Maynard, Steven. " Horrible Temptations': Sex, Men, and Working-Class Youth in Urban Ontario, 1890-1935," Canadian Historical Review 78 (June, 1997), 191-235.
Morton, Suzanne. Ideal Surroundings: Domestic Life in a Working-Class Suburb in the 1920s (1995).
Parr, Joy. The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950 (1990). A major study, set in Paris and Hanover, Ontario.
Penfold, Steven. "Have You No Manhood in You?: Gender and Class in Cape Breton Coal Towns, 1920-1926," Acadiensis 23 (Spring, 1994) 21-44.
Sangster, Joan. Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small Town Ontario, 1920-1960 (1995).
Strange, Carolyn. Toronto's Girl Problem: The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880-1930 (1995).
Bacher, John. Keeping to the Marketplace: The Evolution of Canadian Housing Policy (1993).
Belec, John. "The Dominion Housing Act," Urban History Review, 25 (March, 1997), 53-62.
Burley, David. "The Senator, The Merchant, Two Carpernters, and Widow: A Survey of Canadian Landlords in 1871," Urban History Review, 25 (March, 1997), 5-18.
Choko, Marc. Crises du logement a Montreal, 1860-1939 (1979).
-----. "Le 'Boom' des immeubles d'appartments a Montreal de 1921 a 1951," Urban History Review 23 (November, 1994), 3-18.
Copp, Terry. The Anatomy of Poverty (1974).
Dennis, Richard. "Interpreting the Apartment House: Modernity and Metropolitanism in Toronto, 1900-1930," Journal of Historical Geography 20 (July, 1994) 305-22.
--------. "Private Landlords and Redevelopment: The Ward' in Toronto, 1890-1920," Urban History Review, 24 ()ct., 1995), 21-35.
--------. "Private Landlords and Redevelopment: The Ward' in Toronto, 1890-1920,"Urban History Review, 24 (Oct.,1995), 21-35.
Doucet, Michael and Weaver, John. Housing the North American City (1991). An essential work, based on Hamilton, Ontario, but continental in its context.
Evenden, L.J. "Wartime Housing as Cultural Landscape: National creation and Personal Creativity," Urban History Review, 25 (March, 1997), 41-52.
Goltz, Eileen. "A Corporate View of Housing and Community in a Company Town: Copper Cliff, 1886-1920," Ontario History 82 (Mar., 1990).
Harris, Richard. "Homeownership and Class in Modern Canada," International Journal of Urban and regional Research, 10 (1, 1986), 167-86.
--------.. "Social Mix, Housing Tenure, and Community Development," in John Miron, ed. House, Home, Community; Progress in Housing Canadians, 1945-1986 (1993).
------. "The Flexible House: The Housing Backlog and the Persistence of Lodging, 1891-1951," Social Science History 18 (No. 1, 1994), 31-53.
Maroney, Paul. "Municipal Housing in Kingston, Ontario, 1873-1914," Ontario History 85 (June, 1993), 119-40.
Miron, John. Housing in Postwar Canada (1988).
Paterson, Ross. "Housing Finance in Early Twentieth Century Suburban Toronto," Urban History Review, 20 (1991), 63-71. Purdy, Sean. "Crisis, Progress and Tin Cans in Housing and Housing Histories in Canada," Urban History Review 23 (March, 1995), 45-49. Review essay.
-------. "Building Homes, Building Citizens: Housing Reform and Nation Formation in Canada, 1900-1920," Canadian Historical Review 79 (Sept., 1998), 492-523.
Peterson, Murray. "The Rise of Apartments and Apartment Dwellers in Winnipeg (1900-1914) and a Comparison Study with Toronto," Prairie Forum 18 (Fall, 1993), 155-70.
Ripmeester, M. "Mines, Homes and Halls: Place and Identity as a Gold Miner in Rossland, B.C. 1890-1901," Canadian Geographer 38 (Summer, 1994) 98-109.
Robson, Robert. "Housing in the Northwest Territories: The Post-War Vision,"Urban History Review, 24 (Oct., 1995), 3-20.
Sweeney, Robert. "Land and People: Property Investment in Late Pre-Industrial Montreal,"Urban History Review, 24 (Oct., 1995), 42-51.
Wade, Jill. Houses For All: The Struggle for Social Housing in Vancouver, 1919-1950 (1994).
----------. "Home or Homelessness? Marginal Housing in Vancouver, 1886-1950,"Urban History Review, 25 (March, 1997), 19-29.
Weaver, John. "The North American Apartment Building as a Matter of Business and an Expression of Culture," Planning Perspectives, 2 (1987), 27-52.
Wetherell, Donald and Irene Kmet. Homes in Alberta: Building, Trends, and Design (1991).
internal change: social geography
Bourne, Larry S. and David Ley eds. The Changing Social Geography of Canadian Cities (1993).
---------. "Population Turnaround in the Canadian Inner City: Contextual Factors and Social Consequences," Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 1 (1991), 66-89.
---------. "Self-Fulfilling Prophecies? Decentralization, Inner City Decline and the Quality of Urban Life," Journal of the American Planning Association, 58 (1992), 529-34.
----------. "Close Together and World's Apart: An Analysis of Changes in the Ecology of Income in Canadian Cities," Urban Studies, 30 (1993), 1293-1317.
Broadway, M. "The Canadian Inner City, 1971-91: Regeneration and Decline," Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 4 (1995), 1-20.
Darroch, Gordon and Lee Soltow. Property and Inequality in Victorian Ontario: Structural Patterns and Cultural Communities in the 1871 Census (1994).
Gad, Gunter. "Location Patterns of Manufacturing: Toronto in the 1880s," Urban History Review 22 (June, 19940, 113-38.
---- and Deryck Holdsworth, "Building for City, Region, and Nation: Office Development in Toronto, 1834-1984," in Victor Russell, ed. Forging a Consensus: Historical Essays on Toronto (1984) 272-322.
Goheen, Peter. Victorian Toronto, 1850-1900: Pattern and Process of Growth (1970).
Hiebert, D. "The Social Geography of Toronto in 1931: A Study of Residential Differentiation and Social Structure," Journal of Historical Geography, 21 (Jan., 1995), 55-74.
Lewis, Robert D. "Productive Strategies and Manufacturing Reorganization in Montreal's Central District, 1850-1900," Urban Geography 16 (No. 1, 1995), 4-22.
-------. "Restructuring and the Formation of an Industrial District in Montreal's East End, 1850-1914," Journal of Historical Geography 20 (April, 1994) 143-57.
Ley, David. Community Participation and the Spatial Order of the City (1974).
-------. Gentrification in Canadian Inner Cities: Patterns, Analysis, Impacts, Policy(1985).
-------. "Social Upgrading in Six Canadian Inner Cities," Canadian Geographer, 32 (1988), 31-45.
McCann, Lawrence D. "Changing Morphology of Residential Areas in Transition [Edmonton, Alberta]." Microfilm Thesis, University of Alberta, 1972.
Miller, Marilyn and Joe Bucovetsky. "The Valley Town: Surveying the Urban Heritage in Dundas," in Mark Fram and John Weiler, eds., Continuity With Change: Planning for the Conservation of Man-Made Heritage (1981), 105-176.
Slack, Brian et al. "Mapping the Changes: The Spatial Development of Industrial Montreal, 1861-1929," Urban History Review 22 (May, 1994) 97-112.
municipal government and politics
Brennan, William. "A Populist in Municipal Politics: Cornelius Rink, 1909-1914," Prairie Forum 20 (Spring, 1995), 63-88.
Collin, Jean-Pierre. "Les strategies fiscales municipales et la gestion de l'agglomeration urbaine: le cas de la Ville de Montreal entre 1910 et 1965," Urban History Review 23 (November, 19940, 19-31.
Freeman, Bill and Marsha Hewitt, eds. Their Town: The Mafia, The Media and the Party Machine (1979). A provocative collection of studies of Hamilton's power structure.
Gordon, Alan. "Ward Healers and Honest Men: Urban Quebecois Political Culture and the Montreal Reform of 1909," Urban History Review 23 (March, 1995), 20-32.
Isin, Engin. Cities Without Citizens: The Modernity of the City as a Corporation (1992).
--------. "Cities and Canadian Federalism: A Colonial Legacy," in H. Lustiger-Thaler, ed., Political Arrangements: Power and the City(1992).
-------. "Rethinking the Origins of Canadian Municipal Government," Canadian Journal of Urban Research4(1, 1995), 73-92.
-------. "The Origins of Canadian Municipal Government," in J. Lightbody, ed., Canadian Metropolitics: Governing Our Cities(1995)
-------. :Metropolis Unbound: Legislators and Interpreters of Urban Form," in Jon Caulfield and L. Peake, eds., City Lives and City Forms: Critical Uran Research and Canadian Urbanism(1996).
Evenden, L.J. ed.'The Suburb of Happy Homes:' Burnaby Centennial Themes (1995).
Magnusson, Warren and Sancton, Andrew, eds. City Politics in Canada (1983).
Taylor, John. "Urban Autonomy in Canada: Its Evolution and Decline," in Stelter and Artibise, Canadian City, 478-500.
Weaver, John. Shaping the Canadian City: Essays on Urban Politics and Policy, 1890-1920 (1977).
---------. " 'Tommorrow's Metropolis' Revisited: A Critical Assessment of Urban Reform in Canada, 1890-1920," in Stelter and Artibise, Canadian City, 456-78.
Wichern, Philip. "Metropolitan Reform and the Restructuring of Local Governments in the North American City," in Gilbert Stelter and Alan Artibise, eds., Power and Place: Canadian Urban Development in the North American Context (1986), 292-322.
Bain, David. "George Allan and the Horticultural Gardens,"Ontario History, 87 (Sept., 1995), 231-51. Toronto.
Crawford, Pleasance. "The Roots of the Toronto Horticultural Society," Ontario History, 89 (June, 1997), 125-140.
Dicaire, Linda. "The Rideau Canal Driveway: Founding Element of Ottawa's Evolving Landscape," Ontario History, 89 (June, 1997), 141-60.
Jacobs, Peter. "Frederick G. Todd and the Creation of Canada's Urban Landscape," Association for Preservation Technology, Bulletin, 15 (no.4, 1983), 27-34.
Macdonald, Catherine. A City at Leisure: An Illustrated History of Parks and Recreation in Winnipeg (1995).
von Baeyer, Edwinna.Rhetoric and Roses: A History of Canadian Gardening, 1900-1930 (1984).
-------. A Selected Bibliography for Garden History in Canada (1995).
Wright, J.R. Urban Parks in Ontario, Part Two: The Public Park Movement, 1860-1914 (1984). An important introduction to urban parks.
Dowling, Robyn. "Symbolic Construction of Place in Suburban Surrey, British Columbia," Canadian Geographer, 40 (Spring, 1996), 75-80.
Elliott, Bruce. The City Beyond: A History of Nepean, Birthplace of Canada's Capital (1991). A model study of how a rural area was transformed by its proximity to the city of Ottawa.
Evenden, Len and G. Walker. "From Periphery to Centre: The Changing Geography of the Suburbs," in David Ley and Larry Bourne, eds., The Changing Social Geography of Canadian Cities (1993), 234-51.
Ganton, Isobel. "The Subdivision Process in Toronto, 1851-1883," in Gilbert Stelter and Alan Artibise, eds., Shaping the Urban Landscape: Aspects of the Canadian City-Building Process (1982), 200-32.
Harris, Richard and Sendbuehler, Matt. "The Making of a Working-Class Suburb in Hamilton's East End, 1890-1945," Journal of Urban History 20 (Aug., 1994), 486-511.
Harris, Richard. "Self-Building in the Urban Housing Market," Economic Geography 67 (Jan., 1991), 1-21.
------. Unplanned Suburbs. Toronto's American Tragedy, 1900-1950 (1995).
Lewis, Robert. "The Development of an Early Suburban Industrial District: The Montreal Ward of Saint-Ann, 1851-1871," Urban History Review 19 (Feb., 1991), 166-80.
---------. "The Segregated City: Class Residential Patterns and the Development of Industrial Districts in Montreal, 1861 and 1901," Journal of Urban History 17 (Feb., 1991), 123-52.
Linteau, Paul-Andre. The Promoter's City: Building the Industrial Town of Maisonneuve, 1883-1918 (1985).
---------. "Canadian Suburbanization in a North American Context," Journal of Urban History 13 (May, 1987), 252-74.
Relph, E. "Suburban Downtowns of the Greater Toronto Area," Canadian Geographer, 35 (1991), 421-45.
Strong-Boag, Veronica. "Home Dreams: Women and the Suburban Experiment in Canada, 1945-60," Canadian Historical Review 72 (No. 4, 1991), 471-504.
Artibise, Alan and Stelter, Gilbert, eds., The Usable Urban Past: Planning and Politics in the Modern Canadian City (1979).
---------. and ---------. "Conservation Planning and Urban Planning: The Canadian Commission of Conservation in Historical Perspective," in Roger Kain, ed. Planning for Conservation (1981), 17-36.
Blumenfeld, Hans. Life Begins at 65. The Not Entirely Candid Autobiography of a Drifter (1987). A delightful and revealing account of the nature of urban planning. The Canadian section is chapter 9.
Brennan, William. "Visions of a City Beautiful: The Origin and Impact of the Mawson Plans for Regina," Saskatchewan History 46 (Fall, 1994) 19-33.
Cooper, Matthew. "Access to the Waterfront: Transformations of Meaning on the Toronto Lakeshore," in Robert Rotenberg and Gary McDonogh, eds. The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space (1993), chp. VI.
Delaney, Jill. "The Garden Suburb of Lindenlea, Ottawa: A Model Project for the First Federal Housing Policy, 1918-1924," Urban History Review 19 (Feb., 1991), 151-65.
Fortier, Robert, ed. Villes industrielles planifiees (1996).Articles on the planning of Arvida, Temiscaming, and Shawinigan Falls.
Girard, Michel. L'ecolisme retrouve: essor et declin de la Commission de la conservation du Canada (1994).
Hillis, Ken. "A History of Commissions: Threads of an Ottawa Planning History," Urban History Review 21 ()ct., 1992), 46-60.
Hodge, Gerald. Planning Canadian Communities (1986). Part One is useful for the history of planning in Canada.
Jacobs, Peter. "Frederick G. Todd and the Creation of Canada's Urban Landscape," Association for Preservation Technology, Bulletin 15 (no.4, 1983), 27-34.
Kalman, Harold. "Town Planning," chapter 12 of his A History of Canadian Architecture vol. 2 (1994), pp. 643-76.
Lemon, James T. "Plans for Early 20th-Century Toronto: Lost in Management," Urban History Review 18 (June, 1989), 11-31.
Mitchell, Katharyne. "Visions of Vancouver: Ideology, Democracy, and the Future of Urban Development," Urban Geography, 17 (Aug.-Sept., 1996, 478-501.
Robinson, Ira. "Some Major Differences in the Canadian and American Planning Approaches...Central Cities..." Planning Perspectives 1 (Sept., 1986), 231-56.
Saarinen, Oiva. "Single-Sector Communities in Northern Ontraio: The Creation and Planning of Dependent Towns," in Stelter and Artibise, Power and Place, 219-64.
Sewell, John. The Shape of the City: Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning (1993). Shaky on the historical background, but essential for understanding the negative consequences of the Garden City approach.
Simpson, Michael. Thomas Adams and the Modern Planning Movement: Britain, Canada, and the United States, 1900-1940 (1985).
Stelter, Gilbert. "Guelph and the Early Canadian Town Planning Tradition," Ontario History 77 (June, 1985), 83-106.
Stelter, Gilbert and Artibise, Alan. "Canadian Resource Towns in Historical Perspective," in Stelter and Artibise, eds., Shaping the Urban Landscape: Aspects of the Canadian City-Building Process (1982), 413-34.
Taylor, John. "City Form and Capital Culture: Remaking Ottawa," Planning Perspectives 4 (Jan., 1989), 79-105.
Van Nus, Walter. "The Fate of City Beautiful Thought in Canada, 1893-1930," in Stelter and Artibise, eds., The Canadian City (1984), 167-86.
Wang, Shuguang and P.J.Smith. "In Quest of Forgiving' Environment: Residential Planning and Pedestrian Safety in Edmonton, Canada," Planning Perspectives, 12 (April, 1997), 225-50. Traces changes from neighbourhood planning units in the 1950s to the comprehensive planning of entirely new suburbs in the 1970s.
urban services and transportation
Armstrong, C. and Nelles, H.V. Monopoly's Moment: The Organization and Regulation of Canadian Utilities, 1830-1930 (1986).
--------- and ---------. "Suburban Street Railway Strategies in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver, 1986-1930," in Stelter and Artibise, eds., Power and Place, 187-218.
Ball, Norman ed. Building Canada: A History of Public Works (1988).
Bloomfield, Elizabeth and Gerald. Urban Growth and Local Services: The Development of Ontario Municipalities to 1981 (1983).
Boone, Christopher. "The Politics of Transportation Services in Suburban Montreal: Sorting Out the Mile End Muddle', 1893-1909," Urban History Review, 24 (March, 1996), 25-39.
Boritch, H. And J. Hagan. "Crime and Changing Forms of Class Control: Policing Public Order in Toronto the Good,' 1859-1955,"Social Forces, 66 (1987), 307-35.
Brace, Catherine. "Public Works in the Canadian City: The Provision of Sewers in Toronto, 1870-1913," Urban History Review 23 (March, 1995) 33-43.
Cortiula, Mark. "Houses of the Healers: The Changing Nature of General Hospital Architecture in Hamilton, 1850-1916," Histoire sociale/Social History, 55(May, 1995), 27-50.
Davies, Stephen. " 'Reckless Walking Must Be Discouraged': The Automobile Revolution and the Shaping of Modern Urban Canada to 1930," Urban History Review 18 (Oct., 1989), 123-38
Davis, Donald. "Competition's Moment: The Jitney-Bus and Corporate Capitalism in the Canadian City, 1914-1929," Urban History Review 18 (Oct., 1989), 103-22.
------. "The North American Response to the Jitney Bus," Canadian Review of American Studies 21 (Winter, 1990), 333-57.
-----. "Technological Momentum, Motor Buses, and the Persistence of Canada's Street Railways to 1940," Material History Review 36 (Fall, 1992), 6-17.
McCulloch, M. "Most Assuredly Perpetual Motion: Police and Policing Quebec City, 1838-1858,: Urban History Review, 19 (1990), 100-112.
Moore, P.W. "Public Services and Residential Development in a Toronto Neighbourhood, 1880-1915," Journal of Urban History 9 (1984), 445-71.
Ross, Jeffrey. "The Historical Treatment of Urban Policing in Canada: A Review of the Literature,"Urban History Review, 24 (Oct., 1995), 36-41. Contains an excellent list of publications in the footnotes.
Stein, Jeremy. "Annihilating Space and Time: The Modernization of Fire-Fighting in Late Nineteenth-Century Cornwall, Ontario,"Urban History Review, 24 (March, 1996), 3-11.
Taylor, John. ed. "Fire, Disease and Water in the Nineteenth-Century City," special issue of the Urban History Review 8 (June, 1979).
Weaver, John. Crimes, Constables, and Courts: Order and Transgression in a Canadian City, 1816-1970 (1995). Hamilton, Ontario.
Bennett, John W. And Seena Kohl. Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915: Pioneer Adaptation and Community Building (1995).Covers only the old "Whoop-up Country" of Paul Sharp.
Coates, Ken and W.R.Morrison. "The Federal Government and Urban Development in Northern Canada after World War II: Whitehorse and Dawson City, Yukon Territory," British Columbia Studies, 104 (Winter, 1994-95), 25-68.
Dahms, Frederic. The Heart of the Country: From the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Coast - Rediscovering the Towns and Countryside of Canada (1988).
Gilpin, John. "International Perspectives on Railway Townsite Development in Western Canada, 1877-1914," Planning Perspectives 7 (July, 1992), 247-62.
Jones, Harlo. O Little Town: Remembering Life in a Prairie Village (1995). Dinsmore, Saskatchewan.
McCann, L.D. People and Place: Studies of Small Town Life in the Maritimes (1987).
Ren, J. and Roger White. "The Simulation of Urban Systems in Atlantic Canada," Canadian Geographer, 39 (Autumn, 1995), 252-61.
Smith, Allan. "Farms, Forests and Cities: The Image of the Land and the Rise of the Metropolis in Ontario," in D. Keane and C. Read, eds., Old Ontario: Essays in Honour of J.M.S. Careless (1990), 71-94.
Stelter, Gilbert. "Community Development in Toronto's Commercial Empire: The Industrial Towns of the Nickel Belt, 1883-1931," Laurentian University Review 6 (June, 1974), 3-54.
-------. "Studying the Region", in Elizabeth Bloomfield and Gilbert Stelter, eds., Guelph and Wellington County: A Bibliography of Settlement and Development Since 1800(1988), 1-14. An approach to studying a city-centred region.
Wetherell, Donald and Irene Kmet. Town Life: Main Street and the Evolution of Small Town Alberta, 1880-1947 (1995).