Town Histories

Author : Evelyn Peters,Matthew Stock,Adrian Werner
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887555664

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Rooster Town by Evelyn Peters,Matthew Stock,Adrian Werner Pdf

Melonville. Smokey Hollow. Bannock Town. Fort Tuyau. Little Chicago. Mud Flats. Pumpville. Tintown. La Coule. These were some of the names given to Métis communities at the edges of urban areas in Manitoba. Rooster Town, which was on the outskirts of southwest Winnipeg endured from 1901 to 1961. Those years in Winnipeg were characterized by the twin pressures of depression, and inflation, chronic housing shortages, and a spotty social support network. At the city’s edge, Rooster Town grew without city services as rural Métis arrived to participate in the urban economy and build their own houses while keeping Métis culture and community as a central part of their lives. In other growing settler cities, the Indigenous experience was largely characterized by removal and confinement. But the continuing presence of Métis living and working in the city, and the establishment of Rooster Town itself, made the Winnipeg experience unique. Rooster Town documents the story of a community rooted in kinship, culture, and historical circumstance, whose residents existed unofficially in the cracks of municipal bureaucracy, while navigating the legacy of settler colonialism and the demands of modernity and urbanization.

Author : Jessica van Horssen
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774828444

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A Town Called Asbestos by Jessica van Horssen Pdf

For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos from the town of Asbestos, Quebec, to produce fire-retardant products. Then, over time, people learned about the mineral’s devastating effects on human health. Dependent on this deadly industry for their community’s survival, the residents of Asbestos developed a unique, place-based understanding of their local environment; the risks they faced living next to the giant opencast mine; and their place within the global resource trade. This book unearths the local-global tensions that defined Asbestos’s proud and painful history to reveal the challenges similar resource communities have faced – and continue to face today.

Author : Samuel Orcutt
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 963 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : History
ISBN : 9785879692945

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The history of the old town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 by Samuel Orcutt Pdf

Author : Edward Butts
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459410992

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Wartime by Edward Butts Pdf

The First World War was the cause of dramatic changes in every Canadian community. What it meant to daily life becomes clear in this book about the war years in Guelph, Ontario. The first months were the easiest, as young men rushed to enlist. Once news of casualties and deaths started arriving, the atmosphere changed drastically. Mothers dreaded the arrival of the telegraph boy. Newspapers published fulsome obituaries which could not obscure the tragedy of their deaths. Tensions emerged — one compelling example being a secret military and police night-time raid on a Catholic seminary just outside the town, looking for young men hiding from conscription. With these stories, Edward Butts offers a compelling portrait of people trying to make sense of a war with little evident logic. His account helps explain why the cause of the League of Nations and efforts to ensure peace in the 1920s and 1930s were so powerful amongst Canadians who had learned about the real impact of wartime on ordinary people. Through the use of primary resources including articles from the local press, letters from overseas, and newsreels in the cinema, Butts captures the reality of the First World War for Canadians at home.

Author : Filip Springer
Publisher : Restless Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781632061164

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History of a Disappearance by Filip Springer Pdf

Lying at the crucible of Central Europe, the Silesian village of Kupferberg suffered the violence of the Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, and World War I. After Stalin’s post-World War II redrawing of Poland’s borders, Kupferberg became Miedzianka, a town settled by displaced persons from all over Poland and a new center of the Eastern Bloc’s uranium-mining industry. Decades of neglect and environmental degradation led to the town being declared uninhabitable, and the population was evacuated. Today, it exists only in ruins, with barely a hundred people living on the unstable ground above its collapsing mines. In this collection of unsparing and insightful reportage, the renowned journalist, photographer, and architecture critic Filip Springer rediscovers this tiny town’s history. Digging beyond the village’s mythic foundations and the great wars and world leaders that shaped it, Springer catalogs the lost human elements: the long-departed tailor and deceased shopkeeper; the parties, now silenced, that used to fill the streets with shouts and laughter; and the once-beautiful cemetery, with gravestones upended by tractors and human bones scattered by dogs. In Miedzianka, Springer sees a microcosm of European history, and a powerful narrative of how the ghosts of the past continue to haunt us in the present day.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Lexington (Mass.)
ISBN : NYPL:33433082074935

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Annual Reports of the Town Officers of Lexington, Massachusetts ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven High
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487518677

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One Job Town by Steven High Pdf

There’s a pervasive sense of betrayal in areas scarred by mine, mill and factory closures. Steven High’s One Job Town delves into the long history of deindustrialization in the paper-making town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, located on Canada’s resource periphery. Much like hundreds of other towns and cities across North America and Europe, Sturgeon Falls has lost their primary source of industry, resulting in the displacement of workers and their families. One Job Town takes us into the making of a culture of industrialism and the significance of industrial work for mill-working families. One Job Town approaches deindustrialization as a long term, economic, political, and cultural process, which did not begin and simply end with the closure of the local mill in 2002. High examines the work-life histories of fifty paper mill workers and managers, as well as city officials, to gain an in-depth understanding of the impact of the formation and dissolution of a culture of industrialism. Oral history and memory are at the heart of One Job Town, challenging us to rethink the relationship between the past and the present in what was formerly known as the industrialized world.

Author : Henry Reed Stiles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : History
ISBN : BL:A0026260772

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A History of the City of Brooklyn. Including the Old Town and Village of Brooklyn, the Town of Bushwick, and the Village and City of Williamsburgh. [With Illustrations.] by Henry Reed Stiles Pdf

Author : A.D. Gridley
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781178443202

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History of the town of Kirkland by A.D. Gridley Pdf

Author : John Ward Dean,George Folsom,John Gilmary Shea,Henry Reed Stiles,Henry Barton Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : United States
ISBN : OSU:32435069709582

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The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America by John Ward Dean,George Folsom,John Gilmary Shea,Henry Reed Stiles,Henry Barton Dawson Pdf

Author : Thomas Lalor Cooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Birr (Ireland)
ISBN : UOM:39015013161743

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The Early History of the Town of Birr, Or Parsonstown by Thomas Lalor Cooke Pdf

Author : David L. A. Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0776638858

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Town and Crown by David L. A. Gordon Pdf

Town and Crown is an illustrated history of the planning and development of Canada's capital, filling a significant gap in our urban scholarship. It is the story of the transformation of the region from a subarctic wilderness portage to an attractive modern metropolis with a high quality of life. The book examines the period from 1800 to 2011 and is the first major study that covers both sides of the Ottawa River, addressing the settlement history of Aboriginal, French, and English peoples. Ottawa's transformation was a significant Canadian achievement of the new profession of urban planning in the mid-20th century. Our national capital has the country's most complete history of community planning and served as a gateway for important international planning ideas and designers. Town and Crown illustrates the influence of landscape architect and Olmsted protégé Frederick Todd, Chicago's City Beautiful architect Edward Bennett, and British planner Thomas Adams. Prime Minister Mackenzie King maintained a direct interest in planning Canada's capital for almost fifty years, choosing France's leading urbaniste, Jacques Gréber, to plan the post-1945 redevelopment of the region. The principal research method for Town and Crown includes over sixteen years of archival studies in North America, Australia, and Europe, and interviews with key politicians, designers, and planners that supplemented the contemporary research. The narrative is supplemented by over 200 images drawn from early sketches, historical maps, plans, and archival photography to illustrate the physical transformation of Canada's federal capital.

Author : Sam Anderson
Publisher : Crown
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804137324

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Boom Town by Sam Anderson Pdf

A brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City—a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny, from award-winning journalist Sam Anderson NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Chicago Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • Deadspin Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous “Land Run” in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn between the wild energy that drives its outsized ambitions, and the forces of order that seek sustainable progress. Nowhere was this dynamic better realized than in the drama of the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team’s 2012-13 season, when the Thunder’s brilliant general manager, Sam Presti, ignited a firestorm by trading future superstar James Harden just days before the first game. Presti’s all-in gamble on “the Process”—the patient, methodical management style that dictated the trade as the team’s best hope for long-term greatness—kicked off a pivotal year in the city’s history, one that would include pitched battles over urban planning, a series of cataclysmic tornadoes, and the frenzied hope that an NBA championship might finally deliver the glory of which the city had always dreamed. Boom Town announces the arrival of an exciting literary voice. Sam Anderson, former book critic for New York magazine and now a staff writer at the New York Times magazine, unfolds an idiosyncratic mix of American history, sports reporting, urban studies, gonzo memoir, and much more to tell the strange but compelling story of an American city whose unique mix of geography and history make it a fascinating microcosm of the democratic experiment. Filled with characters ranging from NBA superstars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook; to Flaming Lips oddball frontman Wayne Coyne; to legendary Great Plains meteorologist Gary England; to Stanley Draper, Oklahoma City's would-be Robert Moses; to civil rights activist Clara Luper; to the citizens and public servants who survived the notorious 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building, Boom Town offers a remarkable look at the urban tapestry woven from control and chaos, sports and civics.

Author : Woburn (Mass.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Municipal government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112108079333

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Annual Report of the Town Clerk, and the Receipts and Expenditures of the Town of Woburn by Woburn (Mass.) Pdf

Author : Paul Taylor
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814339305

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"Old Slow Town" by Paul Taylor Pdf

Details Detroit's tumultuous social, political, and military history during the Civil War.