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Modest Hopes

- Homes and Stories of Toronto's Workers from the 1820s to the 1920s
Af: Don Loucks, Leslie Valpy Engelsk Paperback

Modest Hopes

- Homes and Stories of Toronto's Workers from the 1820s to the 1920s
Af: Don Loucks, Leslie Valpy Engelsk Paperback
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Celebrating Toronto’s built heritage of row houses, semis, and cottages and the people who lived in them.

Despite their value as urban property, Toronto’s workers’ cottages are often characterized as being small, cramped, poorly built, and in need of modernization or even demolition. But for the workers and their families who originally lived in them from the 1820s to the 1920s, these houses were far from modest. Many had been driven off their ancestral farms or had left the crowded conditions of tenements in their home cities abroad. Once in Toronto, many lived in unsanitary conditions in makeshift shantytowns or cramped shared houses in downtown neighbourhoods such as The Ward. To then move to a self-contained cottage or rowhouse was the result of an unimaginably strong hope for the future and a commitment to family life.

Through the stories of eight families who lived in these “Modest Hopes,” authors Don Loucks and Leslie Valpy bring an important but forgotten part of the Toronto narrative to life. They illuminate the development of Toronto’s working-class neighbourhoods, such as Leslieville, Corktown, and others, and explain the designs and architectural antecedents of these undervalued heritage properties.

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Celebrating Toronto’s built heritage of row houses, semis, and cottages and the people who lived in them.

Despite their value as urban property, Toronto’s workers’ cottages are often characterized as being small, cramped, poorly built, and in need of modernization or even demolition. But for the workers and their families who originally lived in them from the 1820s to the 1920s, these houses were far from modest. Many had been driven off their ancestral farms or had left the crowded conditions of tenements in their home cities abroad. Once in Toronto, many lived in unsanitary conditions in makeshift shantytowns or cramped shared houses in downtown neighbourhoods such as The Ward. To then move to a self-contained cottage or rowhouse was the result of an unimaginably strong hope for the future and a commitment to family life.

Through the stories of eight families who lived in these “Modest Hopes,” authors Don Loucks and Leslie Valpy bring an important but forgotten part of the Toronto narrative to life. They illuminate the development of Toronto’s working-class neighbourhoods, such as Leslieville, Corktown, and others, and explain the designs and architectural antecedents of these undervalued heritage properties.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9781459745544
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 145974554X
Kategori: Southwestern Ontario: Greater Toronto Area
Udg. Dato: 25 nov 2021
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 216mm
Højde: 178mm
Forlag: Dundurn Group Ltd
Oplagsdato: 25 nov 2021
Forfatter(e): Don Loucks, Leslie Valpy
Forfatter(e) Don Loucks, Leslie Valpy

Kategori Southwestern Ontario: Greater Toronto Area

ISBN-13 9781459745544

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 288

Udgave

Længde 20mm

Bredde 216mm

Højde 178mm

Udg. Dato 25 nov 2021

Oplagsdato 25 nov 2021

Forlag Dundurn Group Ltd

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