Atlantic Provinces Urban History Bibliography

The following references are extracted from "The Urban Past: An International Urban History Bibliography", by Gilbert A. Stelter, University of Guelph. For the full bibliography, see:

http://www.uoguelph.ca/history/urban/citybibVI18.html


O'Neill, Paul. The Story of St. John's, Newfoundland 2 vols. (1975-76).

Buggey, Susan. "Building Halifax, 1841-1871," in Gilbert Stelter and Alan Artibise, eds., Shaping the Urban Landscape: Aspects of the Canadian City-Building Process (1982), 232-55.

Cook, Jenny. "Bringing the Outside In: Women and the Transformation of the Middle-Class Maritime Canadian Interior, 183-1860," Material History Review 38 (Fall, 1993), 36-49.

Sharpe, C.A. "Preserving Housing and Heritage in St. John's," Canadian Geographer, 39 (1995), 75-82.

Carleton University History Collective. Urban and Community Development in Atlantic Canada (1994).

Fingard, Judith. The Dark Side of Life in Victorian Halifax (1989).

----------. Jack in Port: Sailortowns of Eastern Canada (1982).

Howell, Colin D. "Baseball, Class and Community in the Maritime Provinces, 1870-1910," Histoire

sociale\Social History 22 (nov., 1989), 265-86.

-------. Northern Sandlots: A Social History of Maritime Baseball (1995).

McCann, L.D. "Class, Ethnicity. and Residential Differentiation in Mid-Victorian Halifax," in R.E.

Preston and B. Mitchell, eds., Reflections and Visions: 25 Years of Geography at Waterloo (1990), 240-265.

Babcock, Robert H. "Private vs. Public Enterprise: A Comparison of Two Atlantic Seaboard Cities,

1850-1925," in Gilbert Stelter and Alan Artibise, eds., Power and Place: Canadian Urban Development in the North American Context (1986), 51-81. Saint John, New Brunswick and Portland, Maine.

McCann, L.D. "Fragmented Integration: The Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company and the Anatomy of an

Urban-Industrial Landscape, c. 1912," Urban History Review 22 (May, 1994) 139-58.

-----. "Shock Waves in the Old Economy: Maritime Cities and the Great Transformation, c. 1867-1939," in G.J. De Beneditti and R.H. Lamarche, eds. Shock Waves: The Maritime Urban System in the New Economy (1994).

Bobier, Richard. "Africville: The Test of Urban Renewal and Race in Halifax, Nova Scotia," Past

Imperfect, 4 (1995), 163-80.

Fingard, Judith. "From Sea to Rail: Black Transport Workers and Their Families in Halifax, c.

1870-1916," Acadiensis, 24 (Spring, 1995), 49-64.

Penfold, Steven. "Have You No Manhood in You?: Gender and Class in Cape Breton Coal Towns, 1920-1926," Acadiensis 23 (Spring, 1994) 21-44.

Dahms, Frederic. The Heart of the Country: From the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Coast -

Rediscovering the Towns and Countryside of Canada (1988).

McCann, L.D. People and Place: Studies of Small Town Life in the Maritimes (1987).

Ren, J. and Roger White. "The Simulation of Urban Systems in Atlantic Canada," Canadian Geographer, 39 (Autumn, 1995), 252-61.


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