The first volume begins with aboriginal structures in the East and ends with both native and European-Canadian buildings in the West; the second volume moves from the effect of the transcontinental railway on the opening up of the country, and proceeds—with stops to look at town-planning and at building in the Far North—to examine modern and post-modern architecture. [...] The 'elevation of the cabins of the savages' has been reproduced The natives who lived in the hardwood and coni- from a map of Fort Frontenac, near today's Kings- ferous forests of today's eastern Canada—from the ton, Ontario, and was drawn c. 1720. [...] One of the largest in Ontario was at size, reaching an estimated population of 60,000 the Moyer site, in the southwestern part of the by the beginning of the seventeenth century. [...] Holes were cut in the roof to the Seneca, were called the 'keepers of the western allow smoke to escape, and these provided the only door', and the Mohawks, who lived in the east by light. [...] About find there a miniature picture of Hell,—seeing one-fifth of the community on the reserve consider nothing ordinarily but fire and smoke, and on themselves to be 'followers of the longhouse'.9 every side naked bodies, black and half roasted, mingled pell-mell with the dogs, which are held The Algonquian wigwam The people who spoke the as dear as the children of the house, and share the Algonq
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Abbreviations in Captions 7
- Preface 8
- Board of Advisers 12
- Chapter 1 THE FIRST BUILDINGS 14
- Chapter 2 NEW FRANCE 40
- Chapter 3 BRITISH AND AMERICAN SETTLEMENT ON THE ATLANTIC COAST 101
- Chapter 4 CLASSICISM IN UPPER AND LOWER CANADA 152
- Chapter 5 BUILDING FOR COMMUNICATIONS, DEFENCE, AND COMMERCE 213
- Chapter 6 THE RETURN TO THE PAST: THE VICTORIAN REVIVALS 270
- Chapter 7 EARLY BUILDING ON THE PRAIRIES 332
- Chapter 8 THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST COAST 378
- Notes 432
- Bibliographies on the History of Canadian Architecture 468
- Glossary 469
- A 469
- B 469
- C 469
- D 470
- E 470
- F 470
- G 471
- H 471
- I 471
- J 471
- K 471
- L 471
- M 471
- N 471
- O 471
- P 471
- Q 472
- R 472
- S 472
- T 472
- V 472
- Index of Canadian Buildings 473
- General Index 479
- A 479
- B 479
- C 480
- D 481
- E 482
- F 482
- G 482
- H 483
- I 483
- J 484
- K 484
- L 484
- M 485
- N 486
- O 486
- P 487
- Q 487
- R 487
- S 488
- T 489
- U 490
- V 490
- W 490
- Y 491
- Z 491
