Building for Labor: Hintonburg’s Plank and Frame Cottages

Further Reading

Thanks go out to Peter Coffman and the Hintonburg Community Association for the chance to work on such a project, as well as the rest of the class for constructive discussion, and Michael Windover, who provided some early resource links. Thanks also to the Carleton Library research staff who helped in obtaining out of print or unpublished documents.

Allen, Richard. The Social Passion: Religion and Social Reform in Canada, 1914-28. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Ambrose, James. Construction Revisited: An Illustrated Guide to Construction Details of the Early 20th Century. New York: Wily & Sons Publishing, 1993.

Downing, Andrew. Cottage Residences, Or, a Series of Designs for Rural Cottages and Cottage Villas, and Their Gardens and Grounds: Adapted to North America. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1842.

Elliott, Bruce. The City Beyond: A History of Nepean, Birthplace of Canada’s Capital 1792-1990. Ottawa: Tri-graphic Printing, 1991.

Gordon, David. “A City Beautiful plan for Canada’s capital: Edward Bennett and the 1915 plan for Ottawa and Hull.” In Planning Perspectives 13. 1998. pg. 275-300.

Harris, Richard. “A City of Homes” In Unplanned Suburbs: Toronto's American Tragedy 1900 to 1950, 86-107. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Humphreys, Barbara. “The Architectural Heritage of the Rideau Corridor.” In Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History 10. 2006.

Lee, David. Lumber Kings and Shantymen: Logging, Lumber and Timber in the Ottawa Valley. Toronto: Lorimer, 2006.

Manchee, Ellen. “Ordinary homes built for ordinary people: community and the built form in one Ottawa area, 1920-1939.” Master’s thesis, Carleton University, 1991.

Newell, Christina. Hintonburg A Working Class Streetcar Suburb at the Turn of the Century. Ottawa: The Historical Society of Ottawa, 1994.

Renpel, John. Building with Wood: and other Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Building in Central Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980.

Richie, T. The Use of Planks in Wall Construction. Ottawa: NRC, 1975.

Stewart, Meredith. “The Public Baths of Ottawa: A Heritage Reconsidered.” In Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada 40, no. 1. 2015. pg. 83-96.

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