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Title Vancouver past : essays in social history / edited by Robert A.J. McDonald and Jean Barman
Published Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1986

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Description 1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cottages and castles for Vancouver home-seekers / Deryck W. Holdsworth -- Working class Vancouver, 1886-1914 / Robert A.J. McDonald -- Sam Kee / Paul Yee -- Neighbourhood and community in interwar Vancouver / Jean Barman -- The confinement of women / Veronica Strong-Boag and Kathryn Mcpherson -- The triumph of "Formalism" / Neil Sutherland -- The incidence of crime in Vancouver during the Great Depression / James P. Huzel -- The Mothers' Council of Vancouver / Irene Howard -- "A palace for the public" / Jill Wade -- A half century of writing on Vancouver's history / Patricia Roy
Summary Focusing on Vancouver's social history, the essays written for this special edition of BC Studies treat hitherto neglected areas of the city's past and bring new insights into how its residents lived and worked. Receiving particular attention is the socio-economic and residential structure of Vancouver with one author arguing that the city's economy created an urban working class which was at once more complex and politically more conservative than that of the highly polarized communities on Vancouver Island and in the Interior. An article exploring the pre-1916 activities of the Sam Kee Company, one of the wealthiest merchant firms in Chinatown, offers a fascinating look inside the immigrant world and attests to the importance of business in facilitating immigrant settlement in the New World. Almost forgotten now are the accomplishments of the Mothers' Council of Vancouver -- a group of politically active women who gave support to the unemployed and the strikers from 1935-1938. Another writer recalls the 1946 occupation of the old Hotel Vancouver when a group of veterans protested against the city's acute housing shortage. Other essays deal with elementary schooling from the 1920's to the 1960's, labour history, the geographic and social development of neighbourhoods, crime during the Great Depression, and childbirth and hospitalization. The volume provides a lively portrait of city life over a sixty-year period and lays the groudwork for future analysis of the modern metropolis as we know it today
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Social conditions
SUBJECT Vancouver (B.C.) -- Social conditions
Subject British Columbia -- Vancouver
Form Electronic book
Author McDonald, Robert A. J., 1944-2019
Barman, Jean, 1939-
LC no. 86224968
ISBN 9780774857079
0774857072
OTHER TI B C studies