Hamilton
Hamilton

Author: Statistics Canada

Publisher: Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Presents maps and graphs to portray 1981 Census data for census metropolitan areas (CMAs), on key statistical themes: population, housing, place of work, and income, highlighting demographic, soci-economic, cultural and spatial dimensions. Includes definitions and data quality.

Changing Neighbourhoods
Changing Neighbourhoods

Author: Jill Grant

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2020-03-15

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 077486205X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Canadians have a right to live in cities that meet their basic needs in a dignified way, but in recent decades increased inequality and polarization have been reshaping the social landscape of Canada’s urban areas. This book examines the dimensions and impacts of increased economic inequality and urban socio-spatial polarization since the 1980s. Based on the work of the Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership, an innovative national comparative study of seven major cities, the authors reveal the dynamics of neighbourhood change across the Canadian urban system. While the heart of the book lies in the project’s findings from each city, other chapters provide important context. Taken together, they offer important understandings of the depth and the breadth of the problem at hand and signal the urgency for concerted policy responses in the decades to come.

The People and the Bay
The People and the Bay

Author: Nancy B. Bouchier

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2016-01-15

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0774830441

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This masterful social and environmental history raises questions about how decisions being made about the natural world today will shape the cities of tomorrow. In 1865, John Smoke braved the ice on Burlington Bay to go spearfishing. Soon after, he was arrested by a fishery inspector and then convicted by a magistrate who chastised him for thinking that he was at liberty to do as he pleased “with Her Majesty’s property.” With this story, Nancy Bouchier and Ken Cruikshank launch their history of the relationship between the people of Hamilton, Ontario, and Hamilton Harbour (aka Burlington Bay). From the time of European settlement through to the city’s rise as an industrial power, townsfolk struggled with nature, and with one another, to champion their particular vision of “the bay” as a place to live, work, and play. As Smoke discovered, the outcomes of those struggles reflected the changing nature of power in an industrial city. From efforts to conserve the fishery in the 1860s to current attempts to revitalize a seriously polluted harbour, each generation has tried to create what it believed would be a livable and prosperous city.