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Author Richardson, Douglas Scott, 1939-

Title Canadian churches : an architectural history / Douglas Richardson and Peter Richardson ; photographs by John de Visser
Published Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, [2007]
©2007

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Description 438 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 30 cm
Contents Churches -- Atlantic : Terra Nova to Atlantic Canada ; British and American colonial traditions ; Festive simplicity ; New Brunswick town and country ; Deep and holy poetry ; Sublime Newfoundland ; Rational Gothic ; Cradle on the waves -- Québec : Counter-Reformation to Vatican II ; L'ancien régime ; Anglicanism triumphant ; Un métissage canadien ; Notre-Dame-de-Québec ; Les rivières qui marchent ; La ville aux cent clochers ; Québec modernism ; Pray and work ; Glass tapestries -- Ontario : Loyalists to modernists ; Sainte-Marie among the Hurons ; Unity of the empire ; Niagara and Southwestern Ontario ; Fringe of settlement ; Victorian Catholicism ; Can these bones live? ; Victorian Toronto ; Church and city ; Byzantium in Ontario ; Group of Seven in church ; Resisting obsolescence -- West and North : Fur post to Pacific Rim ; Pre-Confederation Northwest ; Vancouver's Island and British Columbia ; Prairie settlement ; Bell towers of the Eastern Rite ; Late Victorian Gothic Revival ; The North ; Modernist stirrings ; Western modernism -- Changes : origins ; Byzantine ; Medieval ; Reformation and Baroque ; The New World ; Conclusion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Church architecture -- Canada -- History.
Church buildings -- Canada -- History.
Church decoration and ornament -- Canada -- History.
Author De Visser, John.
Richardson, Peter, 1935-
LC no. 2007702283
ISBN 9781554072392
1554072395