Industrial Efficiency, Social Order and Moral Purity: Housing Reform Thought in English Canada, 1900–1950

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
Industrial Efficiency, Social Order and Moral Purity: Housing Reform Thought in English Canada, 1900–1950
Abstract
The author traces the evolution of reform ideology in the housing sphere in the first half of the twentieth century by critically analyzing the ideas and practices of a number of key housing reformers and agencies. Among the reformers examined by the author is Montrealer Herbert Ames (1863-1954), author of the 1897 statistical examination of social conditions in Montreal's working-class inhabitants of Point St. Charles and Griffintown titled "The City Below the Hill." References by the author are also made to the federal Commission of Conservation, 1909-21, which extended its activities into the academy, inaugurating lecture courses at the University of Toronto and McGill University in 1919-20, and the work of Leonard Marsh (1906-1983) a McGill University economist and the Director of McGill’s social science research program between 1930 and 1941.
Publication
Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine
Volume
Vol. 25
Issue
no. 2
Pages
30-40
Date
March 1997
Language
en
URL
Citation
Purdy, Sean. “Industrial Efficiency, Social Order and Moral Purity: Housing Reform Thought in English Canada, 1900–1950.” Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire urbaine Vol. 25, no. 2 (March 1997): 30–40. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/uhr/1997-v25-n2-uhr0615/1016069ar.pdf.
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