Vancouver Past

Essays in Social History

Edited by Robert A.J. McDonald
Publisher: UBC Press
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774857079, 327 pages, October 2007

Table of contents

Preface

Cottages and Castles for Vancouver Home-Seekers / Deryck W.
Holdsworth

Working Class Vancouver, 1886-1914: Urbanism and Class in British
Columbia / Robert A.J. McDonald

Sam Kee: A Chinese Business in Early Vancouver / Paul
Yee

Neighbourhood and Community in Interwar Vancouver: Residential
Differentiation and Civic Voting Behaviour / Jean Barman

The Confinement of Women: Childbirth and Hospitalization in
Vancouver, 1919-1939 / Veronica Strong-Boag and Kathryn
McPherson

The Triumph of "Formalism": Elementary Schooling in
Vancouver from the 1920s to the 1960s / Neil Sutherland

The Incidence of Crime in Vancouver During the Great Depression /
James P. Huzel

The Mothers' Council of Vancouver: Holding the Fort for the
Unemployed, 1935-1938 / Irene Howard

"A Palace for the Public": Housing Reform and the 1946
Occupation of the Old Hotel Vancouver / Jill Wade

A Half Century of Writing on Vancouver's History / Patricia
Roy

Contributors

Description

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.