Footnote References

Author's Note: I would like to thank the Halifax Relief Commission and its Secretary-Manager, E.W. Crooks, for access to the records. Research was made possible by a grant from McMaster University. The author is indebted to T.J. Plunkett of Queen's University for calling attention to the Richmond District. Godfrey and Shirley Spragge have raised important questions that I initially had neglected.

1 For some discussions of planning in this era, see Alan H. Armstrong, 'Thomas Adams and the Commission of Conservation,' Plan Canada, vol. I (1959), pp. 14-32; Walter Van Nus, 'The Fate of City Beautiful Thought in Canada, 1890-1930'(unpublished paper presented at the Canadian Historical Association Convention, 1975). For a housing experiment, see Shirley Spragge, 'The Toronto Housing Company: A Canadian Experiment' (unpublished paper presented at the Canadian Historical Association Convention, 1975).

2 Albert Rose, Regent Park. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1958, passim.

3 Halifax Relief Commission, Memo for Mr. Garnet, Secretary, Trades and Labour Council, September 11, 1919.

4 Phyllis R. Blakeley, Glimpses of Halifax. Belleville: Mika, 1973, p. 205.

5 Minutes of Executive and Management Committee, Halifax Relief Organization, December 6, 1917, to January 26,1918; entry for December 10, 1917, 8 p.m. File of correspondence with Thomas Adams, Ralph Bell to Adams, December 10, 1917.

6 Alan H. Armstrong, op. cit., p. 24.

7 Minutebook I, proceedings of Halifax Relief Commission, February 1, 1918, to April 27, 1920; entries for December 14, 1917; December 8, 1917; December 22, 1917.

8 Stanley K. Smith, Heart Throbs of the Halifax Horror. Halifax: Gerald E. Weir, 1918, pp. 96-98.

9 Samuel Henry Prince, Catastrophe and Social Change, Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster. New York: Columbia University, 1920, passim.

10 Memo for Mr. Garnet, loc. cit.

11 Halifax Herald, April 12, 1918, p. 17.

12 File of correspondence with Adams, Adams to McIlraith, January 15, 1918.

13 Act to Incorporate the Halifax Relief Commission, Chapter 61, Statutes of Nova Scotia, 1918, and Confirmed by Chapter 24 of Statutes of Canada, 1918. See sections 11 to 21 and section 26.

14 Minutebook I.... Halifax Relief Commission, entries for March 1, 1918 and April 10, 1918.

15 The Canadian Conservation Commission was established by legislation in 1909 with the broad aim of dealing with the better utilization of the natural resources of Canada. The Commission of Conservation Act was repealed in 1921.

16 Alan H. Armstrong, op. cit., file of correspondence with Thomas Adams, Adams to George S. Campbell, Chairman, Finance Committee, Halifax Relief Fund, January 28, 1918.

17 Minutebook I.... Halifax Relief Commission, February 16, 1918.

18 File on General Planning, Architects' and Engineers'Reports, Preliminary Report on Proposed Halifax Restoration, p. 2.

19 Ibid., p. 1.

20 Ibid., p. 3.

21 George Ross, 'The Halifax Disaster and the 38

Re-Housing,' Construction, A Journal for the

Architectural and Engineering and Contracting

Interests, vol. XII, October 1919, p. 299.

22 George Ross, ibid., p. 305.

23 George Ross, Preliminary Report on Proposed

Halifax Restoration. Also see advertisements of

construction materials companies, Construction,

vol. XII, October 1919.

24 George Ross, 'The Halifax Disaster and Re-Hous-

ing,' op. cit., pp. 296-7.

25 Trades and Labour Council quoted in Halifax

Herald, April 12, 1918, p. 11.

26 Minutebook I, . . . Halifax Relief Commission,

entry for June 15, 1918.

27 George Ross, 'The Halifax Disaster and Re-Hous

ing,' op. cit., p. 298.

28 Loc. cit.

29 Minutebook I.... Halifax Relief Commission, entry for June 15, 1918.

30 File of correspondence with Thomas Adams, Adams to T. Sherman Rogers, December 30, 1918.

31 File of correspondence with Thomas Adams, T. Sherman Rogers to Adams, December 27, 1918.

32 Thomas Adams, 'What Town Planning Really Means,' Canadian Municipal Journal, vol. X, July 1914, p. 271.

33 File of correspondence with Thomas Adams, Adams, Preliminary Report on the Planning of the Devastated Area at Halifax, July 6, 1918, pp. 3-4.

34 George Ross, 'The Halifax Disaster and Re-Housing,'op. cit., p. 295.

35 W.H. Atherton, 'Review of Civil Improvements,' Canadian Municipal Journal, vol. X. November 1914, p. 536; Thomas Adams, 'Influence of Town Planning on the Social Life of the Community,' Canadian Municipal Journal, vol. XIII, July 1917, p. 325.

36 Halifax Relief Commission, Map, Plan of Deva-stated and Adjoining Areas (numbered 18-271-1).

37 Financial Post, July 1, 1921, p. 10.

38 Minutebook 1, . . . Halifax Relief Commission, entry for May 28, 1918; Ross, 'The Halifax Disaster and Re-Housing,' op. cit., p. 306; Halifax. Relief Commission file on General Planning, Architects' and Engineers' Reports; Ross, Progress Report: Halifax Re-Housing, October, 1918.

39 Minutebook I.... Halifax Relief Commission, entries for meeting with the representatives of the Trades and Labour Council, February 15, 1918; and August 26,1919.

40 Minutebook I.... Halifax Relief Commission, entry for August 18, 1919.

41 Minutebook 11, Proceedings of Halifax Relief Commission, May 1, 1920, to January 28, 1929; entry for April 1, 1921; Financial Post, August 26, 1921, p. 9.

42 Minutebook II.... Halifax Relief Commission, entries for November 22, 1920; January 25, 1922; August 14, 1923.

43 City of Halifax, Planning Library, Subdivision Practice in Halifax (Typescript, 1943), p. 3.

44 Minutebook II.... Halifax Relief Commission,

entry for March 9, 1921.

45 Ibid., entry for April 1, 1921.

46 Ibid., entry for April 25, 1921.

47 Ibid., entries for May 26, 1921; July 29, 1921;

November 14, 1921.

48 For rents, see article on the project in Halifax Mail Star, January, 1947, cited in unpublished paper on the Richmond district and deposited with the Halifax Relief Commission.

49 See for example Alan F.J. Artibise, Winnipeg: A Social History of Urban Growth 1874-1914. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1975, pp. 61-76,

50 'Reconstruction Number,'Evening Mail, April 12, 1918, n.p.

51 Ibid.

52. Ibid.

53 Minutebook I.... Halifax Relief Commission, entry for January 14, 1918.

54 Halifax Herald, April 22, 1918, p. 6.

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