Homeplace : : The Making of the Canadian Dwelling over Three Centuries / / Peter Ennals, Deryck Holdsworth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Ennals, Peter,; Holdsworth, Deryck,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

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. Canada's settlement history, with its emphasis on staples exports, produced few early landed elite or houses in the grand style. There was, however, a preponderance of small owner-built 'folk' dwellings that reproduced patterns from the immigrants' ancestral homes in western Europe. As regional economics matured, a prospering population used the house as a material means to display their social achievement. Whereas the elites came to reveal their status and taste through careful connoisseurship of the standard international 'high style,' a new emerging middle class accomplished this through a new mode of house building that the authors describe as 'vernacular.' The vernacular dwelling selectively mimicked elements of the elite houses while departing from the older folk forms in response to new social aspirations. The vernacular revolution was accelerated by a popular press that produced inexpensive how-to guides and a manufacturing sector that made affordable standardized lumber and trim. Ultimately the triumph of vernacular housing was the 'prefab' house marketed by firms such as the T. Eaton Company. The analysis of these house-making patterns are explored from the early seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. Frameworks for the Study of Canadian Shelter -- PART ONE. Canadian Housing during the Era of Mercantile Capitalism -- CHAPTER TWO. The Polite House -- CHAPTER THREE. The Folk House -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Vernacular House -- CHAPTER FIVE. Housing for Labour -- PART TWO: Canadian Housing during the Era of Industrial Capitalism -- CHAPTER SIX. The Self-Conscious House -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Enduring Folk Stream -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Pattern Books and an Industrial Vernacular -- CHAPTER NINE. Housing the Industrial Worker -- CHAPTER TEN. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index