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Author Loucks, Don, author.

Title Modest hopes : homes and stories of Toronto's workers from the 1820s to the 1920s / Don Loucks & Leslie Valpy
Published Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Dundurn Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 272 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Contents Introduction : Home is where the heart is -- 1. Origins : The history and antecedents of workers' housing movements -- 2. The architecture : Five Modest Hope house types -- 3. The newcomers : Early immigrants to Toronto who built and lived in Modest Hopes -- 4. Toronto : 1820-1920 -- 5 The neighbourhoods : A selection of historic Toronto areas where Modest Hopes were concentrated -- 6. The stories : Portraits of the people and their Modest Hopes homes -- Bridget Ann Treacy McTague (1840-1924) -- Murray Buchman (1923-) -- Sam Ching and Dennis Chow -- William Joseph O'Connor (1862-1892) -- Thomas T. Ferguson (1893-1918) -- Anne O'Rourke (circa 1820-1891) -- The Moore Family -- Albert Jackson (1857-1918) -- Conclusion : Why are Modest Hopes important today?
Summary "Celebrating Toronto's built heritage of row houses, semis, and cottages and the people who lived in them. Too often, workers' cottages are characterized today as being small, cramped, poorly built, and disposable. But in the late 1800s, to have worked and saved enough money to move into one was an incredible achievement. Moving from the crowded conditions of boarding houses, or areas such as Toronto's Ward or Ashport's 'shanty-town,' just east of the city, to a self-contained, six-hundred-square-foot row house was the result of an unimaginably strong hope for the future, a belief in it, and a commitment to what lay ahead. For the workers and their families, these houses were far from modest. The architectural details of these cottages suggested status, value, and pride of place; they reminded the workers of where they had come from, with architectural roots from their homeland. These 'modest hopes' are an undervalued heritage resource and an important but forgotten part of the Toronto narrative about the people who lived in them and built our city."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Don Loucks is an architect, urban designer, and cultural heritage planner, with forty years of project experience. He is committed to environmental, economic, and cultural sustainability and to preserving the variety of rich urban forms that contain the stories of our communities' history. He lives in Toronto. Leslie Valpy is a heritage conservation practitioner, researcher, and writer, with a passion for built heritage, history, architecture, and conservation. Working with both intangible and tangible dimensions of heritage, she has participated in a range of projects throughout Ontario. She lives in Toronto
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Subject Working class -- Dwellings -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History
Row houses -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History
Semi-detached houses -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History
Historic buildings -- Ontario -- Toronto
Working class -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History
Buildings
Historic buildings
Row houses
Semi-detached houses
Working class
Working class -- Dwellings
SUBJECT Toronto (Ont.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Toronto (Ont.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85136127
Subject Ontario -- Toronto
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Valpy, Leslie, author.
Recorded Books, Inc.
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