Title & Author:

Town and city : aspects of western Canadian urban development / edited, with introductions by Alan F.J. Artibise.

Publication:

Regina : Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, 1981.

Description:

xix, 455 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Canadian plains studies, 0317-6290 ; 10

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-436) and index.
PART 1: ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK: 1. Phillips, Paul; The prairie urban system, 1911-1961: specialization and change. -- 2. McDonald, A.J.; Victoria, Vancounver, and the evolution of British Columbia's economic system, 1886-1914.
PART 2: THE ESTABLISHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF TOWNS: 3. Selwood, H.J. and Evelyn Baril; The Hudson's Bay Company and prairie town development, 1870-1888. -- 4. Brennan. William J.; Business-government cooperation in townsite promotion in Regina and Moose Jaw, 1882-1903. -- 5. Potyondi, Barry; In quest of limited urban status: the town building process in Minnedosa, 1879-1904 [Manitoba]. -- 6. Voisey, Paul; Boosting the small prairie town, 1904-1931: an example from southern Alberta. -- 7. den Otter, A.A.; Lethbridge: outpost of a commerical empire, 1885-1906.
PART 3: THE EMERGENCE AND GROWTH OF CITIES: 8. Artibise, Alan F.J.; Boosterism and the development on prairie cities. -- 9. Thomas, Lewis H.; Saskatoon, 1883-1920: the formative years. -- 10. Gilpin, John; Failed metropolis: the city of Strathcona, 1891-1912. -- 11. Foran, Max; The making of a booster: Wesley Fletcher Orr and nineteenth century Calgary. -- 12. Betke, Carl; The original city of Edmonton: a derivative prairie urban community. -- 13. Forward, Charles N.; The evolution of Victoria's functional character.
PART 4: URBAN SOCIAL PROBLEMS: 14. Klassen, H.C.; In search of neglected and deliquent children: the Calgary Children's Aid Society, 1909-1920. -- 15. Roy, Patricia E.; Vancouver, 'The mecca of the unemployed', 1907-1929.
Also issued online.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0889770212 (pbk.)
9780889770218 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns Canada History.
Cities and towns Canada Growth.
City planning Canada.
Urbanization Canada.
Cities and towns Canada, Western History.
Cities and towns Canada, Western Growth.
Urbanization Canada, Western.
Villes Canada (Ouest) Histoire.
Villes Canada (Ouest) Croissance.
Urbanisation Canada (Ouest)
Villes Canada Histoire.
Villes Canada Croissance.
Urbanisation Canada.
Cities and towns
Cities and towns Growth
City planning
Social conditions
Urbanization
Canada Social conditions.
Canada Conditions sociales.
Western Canada
Canada

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Artibise, Alan F. J.
University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center.
Canadian plains studies ; 10.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 10006
Call No.: ID CAN; ID:87-B2496
Status: Available