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Subtitle: the making of the Canadian dwelling over three centuries
By: Peter Ennals and Deryck W. Holdsworth.
Contributors: Holdsworth, Deryck, 1947-
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Dwellings -- Canada -- History.; Architecture, Domestic -- Canada -- History.; Architecture and society -- Canada.; Habitations -- Canada -- Histoire.; Architecture domestique -- Canada -- Histoire.; Architecture et société -- Canada.
Description: Arguing that past scholarship has provided inadequate methodological tools for understanding ordinary housing in Canada, Peter Ennals and Deryck Holdsworth present a new framework for interpreting the dwelling.

House-making patterns from the early seventeenth to the early twentieth century are explored. Though the emphasis is on the ordinary single-family dwelling, the authors provide an important glimpse of counter-currents such as housing for gang labour, company housing, and the multi-occupant forms associated with urbanization. The analysis is placed in the context of a careful rendering of the historical geographical context of an emerging Canadian space, economy, and society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-289) and index.