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Modest Hopes: Homes and Stories of Toronto's Workers from the 1820s to the 1920s - Couverture souple

Loucks, Don; Valpy, Leslie

 
9781459745544: Modest Hopes: Homes and Stories of Toronto's Workers from the 1820s to the 1920s
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ISBN 10 : 145974554X ISBN 13 : 9781459745544
Editeur : Dundurn Group Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

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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À propos des auteurs

Don Loucks is an architect, urban designer, and cultural heritage planner, with forty years of project experience. He is committed to environmental, economic, and cultural sustainability and to preserving the variety of rich urban forms that contain the stories of our communities' history. He lives in Toronto.



Leslie Valpy is a conservation practitioner, researcher, and writer, with a passion for built heritage, history, architecture, and conservation. Working with both intangible and tangible dimensions of heritage, she has participated in a range of projects throughout Ontario. She lives in Toronto.

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Éditeur
Dundurn Group Ltd
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
145974554X
ISBN 13 
9781459745544
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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