Format:
Online-Ressource (415 p)
ISBN:
9780773502024
Content:
This study provides a reasonably detailed social history of Winnipeg: a description-or reconstruction-of the evolvement of an urban area. It endeavours to identify and describe the events, personages, trends, and movements which have played a key role in the development of Winnipeg.
Content:
Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: The Pre-Urban Era, 1863-74 -- 1 The Origins and Incorporation of Winnipeg -- PART TWO: "Big Men, Come Together with Big Purpose -- 2 The Dominance of a Commercial Elite -- 3 Civic Politics: The Search for Business Efficiency in Municipal Affairs -- PART THREE: The Growth Ethic in Action -- 4 Winnipeg's Legacy: Geography, Railroads, and a Triumphant Growth Ethic -- 5 Winnipeg: Port of the Northwest -- 6 The Search for Cheap Power: Private Enterprise, Monopoly, and Municipal Ownership -- 7 The Campaign for Immigrants and Industry -- PART FOUR: The Urban Community: People and Neighbourhoods -- 8 Population Growth and Change in Winnipeg -- 9 The Urban Environment -- PART FIVE: The Challenges of Urban Growth -- 10 The Immigrant Problem: Accommodation, Disease, and Economic Adjustment -- 11 The Immigrant Problem: Education and Assimilation -- 12 The Commercial Elite and the Water Supply Problem -- 13 Public Health versus the Private City -- 14 Red Lights in Winnipeg: Segregated Vice, Moral Reformers, and Civic Politics -- PART SIX: Toward Urban Maturity -- 15 The Rise and Demise of a City Planning Movement -- CONCLUSION: The End of an Era -- APPENDIXES -- A. Elected Officials, City of Winnipeg, 1874-1914 -- B. Schemes for Governmental Reform, City of Winnipeg, 1884-1906 -- C. A Comparative Profile of Winnipeg's Occupational Structure, 1881 and 1911 -- D. J. S. Woodsworth Report on Living Standards, City of Winnipeg, 1913 -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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Description based upon print version of record
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""Cover""; ""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PART ONE: The Pre-Urban Era, 1863�74""; ""1 The Origins and Incorporation of Winnipeg""; ""PART TWO: ""Big Men, Come Together with Big Purpose""""; ""2 The Dominance of a Commercial Elite""; ""3 Civic Politics: The Search for Business Efficiency in Municipal Affairs""; ""PART THREE: The Growth Ethic in Action""; ""4 Winnipeg's Legacy: Geography, Railroads, and a Triumphant Growth Ethic""; ""5 Winnipeg: Port of the Northwest""; ""6 The Search for Cheap Power: Private Enterprise, Monopoly, and Municipal Ownership""
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""7 The Campaign for Immigrants and Industry""""PART FOUR: The Urban Community: People and Neighbourhoods""; ""8 Population Growth and Change in Winnipeg""; ""9 The Urban Environment""; ""PART FIVE: The Challenges of Urban Growth""; ""10 The Immigrant Problem: Accommodation, Disease, and Economic Adjustment""; ""11 The Immigrant Problem: Education and Assimilation""; ""12 The Commercial Elite and the Water Supply Problem""; ""13 Public Health versus the Private City""; ""14 Red Lights in Winnipeg: Segregated Vice, Moral Reformers, and Civic Politics""; ""PART SIX: Toward Urban Maturity""
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""15 The Rise and Demise of a City Planning Movement""""CONCLUSION: The End of an Era""; ""APPENDIXES""; ""A. Elected Officials, City of Winnipeg, 1874�1914""; ""B. Schemes for Governmental Reform, City of Winnipeg, 1884�1906""; ""C. A Comparative Profile of Winnipeg's Occupational Structure, 1881 and 1911""; ""D. J. S. Woodsworth Report on Living Standards, City of Winnipeg, 1913""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""
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""V""""W""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780773580633
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780773502024
Additional Edition:
Print version Winnipeg : A Social History of Urban Growth, 1874-1914
Language:
English
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