Download or read book A Diminished Roar written by Jim Blanchard and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third instalment in Jim Blanchard’s popular history of early Winnipeg, A Diminished Roar presents a city in the midst of enormous change. Once the fastest growing city in Canada, by 1920 Winnipeg was losing its dominant position in western Canada. As the decade began, Winnipeggers were reeling from the chaos of the Great War and the influenza pandemic. But it was the divisions exposed by the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike which left the deepest marks. As Winnipeg wrestled with its changing fortunes, its citizens looked for new ways to imagine the city’s future and identity. Beginning with the opening of the magnificent new provincial legislature building in 1920, A Diminished Roar guides readers through this decade of political and social turmoil. At City Hall, two very different politicians dominated the scene. Winnipeg’s first Labour mayor, S.J. Farmer, pushed for more public services. His rival, Ralph Webb, would act as the city’s chief “booster” as mayor, encouraging U.S. tourists with the promise of “snowballs and highballs.” Meanwhile, promoters tried to rekindle the city’s spirits with plans for new public projects, such as a grand boulevard through the middle of the city, a new amusement park, and the start of professional horse racing. In the midst of the Jazz Age, Winnipeg’s teenagers grappled with “problems of the heart,” and social groups like the Gyro Club organized masked balls for the city’s elite.

Download or read book Ethnic and Immigration Groups written by Patricia J. Rosof and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely exploration of the social and economic ramifications of immigration movements around the world.

Download or read book Property Wrongs written by Doug Smith and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-13T00:00:00Z with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until 1969, the City of Winnipeg had undertaken only two public housing projects even though the failure of the market to provide adequate housing for low-income Winnipeggers had been apparent since the beginning of the century. By 1919, providing housing was a significant issue in municipal politics that was embraced by civic officials, professionals, reformers, labour leaders and social democratic politicians. It also became a proxy issue for refighting the 1919 General Strike at city hall. However, Winnipeg’s business community proved effective opponents of public housing. The struggle for public housing was also a struggle for democracy. Up until the 1960s, public housing required approval by a referendum in which only the city’s property owners could vote. This rule deprived close to half the city’s voters — and virtually everyone who might qualify to live in public housing — of the right to vote. Over decades that barrier to democracy was whittled away. An NDP provincial government elected in 1969 added 11,144 units of public housing to the existing 568 units. Today public housing is once more under attack. Rather being treated as valued public assets, they are considered embarrassing encumberments that should be sold as part of a process of turning public housing over to the private sector. The struggle to protect and expand the provision of non-profit housing is undermined by the rupture in political memory of the long struggle to build public housing and the current political situation.

Download or read book We re Going to Run This City written by Stefan Epp-Koop and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stefan Epp-Koop’s "We’re Going to Run This City: Winnipeg’s Political Left After the General Strike" explores the dynamic political movement that came out of the largest labour protest in Canadian history and the ramifications for Winnipeg throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Few have studied the political Left at the municipal level—even though it is at this grassroots level that many people participate in political activity. Winnipeg was a deeply divided city. On one side, the conservative political descendants of the General Strike’s Citizen’s Committee of 1000 advocated for minimal government and low taxes. On the other side were the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party of Canada, two parties rooted in the city’s working class, though often in conflict with each other. The political strength of the Left would ebb and flow throughout the 1920s and 1930s but peaked in the mid-1930s when the ILP’s John Queen became mayor and the two parties on the Left combined to hold a majority of council seats. Astonishingly, Winnipeg was governed by a mayor who had served jail time for his role in the General Strike.

Download or read book Winnipeg written by Alan F. J. Artibise and published by J. Lorimer ; [Ottawa] : National Museums of Man, National Museums of Canada. This book was released on 1977 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Canadian City written by Gilbert A. Stelter and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1984 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on urban society, with essays on social structure, the family, ethnicity and immigration, and religion. This title includes other sections that are devoted to urban growth, the physical environment, and urban government and reform.

Download or read book Publication written by Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Papers Read Before the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba written by Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annotated Bibliography of Canadian Demography written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Canadian Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section: Recent publications relating to Canada.

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Download or read book Bibliography of Canadian Urban History written by Frederick Henry Armstrong and published by Monticello, Ill. : Vance Bibliographies. This book was released on 1980 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book European Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States and Canada written by David L. Brye and published by Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio Information Services. This book was released on 1983 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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