Historical Atlas of Canada : : Volume III: Addressing the Twentieth Century / / ed. by Deryck W. Holdsworth, Donald Kerr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Andreae, Christopher,; Bloomfield, Elizabeth,; Bloomfield, Gerald,; Campbell, Douglas,; Carlyle, William J.,; Cartwright, Donald,; Code, William,; Conzen, Michael P.,; Courville, Serge,; Cruikshank, Douglas,; Doucet, Michael J.,; Evans, Simon M.,; Everitt, Donna Shimamura,; Everitt, John C.,; Gad, Gunter,; Gaffield, Chad,; Galois, Robert,; Hanna, David,; Hardy, Rene,; Hiebert, Daniel J.,; Hillmer, Norman,; Hinton, Michael,; Hobbs, Margaret,; Holdsworth, Deryck W.,; Humber, William,; Kalbach, Warren,; Kealey, Gregory S.,; Keddie, Philip D.,; Kerr, Donald,; Lanthier, Pierre,; Laskin, Susan L.,; Lehr, John C.,; Linteau, Paul-Andre,; MacPherson, Murdo,; Maclnnes, Daniel,; Magwood, Mary,; Mannion, John J.,; Marks, Lynne,; McCann, L.D.,; McNabb, Debra,; Mclnnis, Marvin,; Metcalfe, Alan,; Mills, G. E.,; Mills, G.E.,; Neufeld, David,; Nicholson, Norman L.,; Olson, Sherry,; Quigley, Neil,; Regehr, Ted,; Sager, Eric W.,; Seguin, Normand,; Sharpe, Christopher A.,; Simmons, James W.,; Smith, P.J.,; Staveley, Michael,; Taschereau, Sylvie,; Taylor, John,; Usher, Peter J.,; Vallières, Marc,; Wall, Geoffrey,; Williams, Glen,
• HerausgeberIn: Holdsworth, Deryck W.,; Kerr, Donald,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (197 p.)

In 1891 the young nation of Canada stood on the brink of a great surge of growth and development. During the seven decades covered in this volume Canada would be transformed from a rural, agricultural society, almost exclusively British and French in background, to an urban, industrial nation with m...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Donors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Canada 1891-1961: An Overview
• 1. Canada in 1891
• 2. Territorial Evolution
• 3. Economic Growth
• 4. Population Composition
• Part One. The Great Transformation 1891 - 1929
• National Economic Patterns
• 5. Primary Production
• 6. The Expansion and Consolidation of Railways
• 7. The Changing Structure of Manufacturing
• 8. Wholesale Trade
• 9. Financial Institutions
• 10. The Emergence of the Urban System
• Regional Dimensions of the Production System
• 11. Resource-Based Industries in Central Canada
• 12. Electricity and Industrial Development in Central Canada
• 13. Urban Industrial Development in Central Canada
• 14. Industrial Development in Montréal
• 15. The Emergence of Coporate Toronto
• 16. Resource Development on the Shield
• 17. Peopling the Prairies
• 18. Prairie Agriculture
• 19. The Grain-Handling System
• 20. Land Development in Edmonton
• 21. British Columbia Resource Development
• 22. Resource Communities in British Columbia
• 23. Sea and Livelihood in Atlantic Canada
• 24. Industrialization and the Maritimes
• 25. Port Development in Halifax
• 26. The Great War
• Canadian Society during the Great Transformation
• 27. Migration
• 28. Elements of Population Change
• 29. The Demographic Transition
• 30. The Social Landscape of Montréal, 1901
• 31. Winnipeg: A Divided City
• 32. New Approaches to Disease and Public Dependency
• 33. Schooling and Social Structure
• 34. Religious Adherence
• 35. Organized Sport
• 36. Recreational Lands
• 37. Working Worlds
• 38. Organized Labour
• 39. Strikes
• Part Two. Crisis and Response 1929 - 1961
• The Great Depression
• 40. Economic Crisis
• 41. The Impact of the Depression on People
• 42. Managing the Relief Burden
• 43. Drought and Depression on the Prairies
• 44. Colonization and Co-Operation
• 45. Workers' Responses
• 46. New Political Directions
• The Second World War and the Post-War Period
• 47. Military Activity in the Second World War
• 48. The Home Front in the Second World War
• 49. Farming and Fishing
• 50. Resources for Industrial Economies
• 51. The Persistence of Manufacturing Patterns
• 52. Retailing
• 53. The Growth of Road and Air Transport
• 54. The Integration of the Urban System
• 55. Metropolitan Dominance
• 56. Ottawa: The Emerging Capital
• 57. Canadians Abroad
• 58 Societies and Economies in the North
• 59. Population Changes
• 60. Metropolitan Toronto
• 61. The Changing Work - Force
• 62. Organized Labour, Strikes and Politics
• 63. The Emergence of Social Insurance
• 64. University Education
• 65. National Broadcasting Systems
• 66. Canada in 1961
• Notes
• Backmatter