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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Modest Hopes: Homes and Stories of Toronto's Workers from the 1820s to the 1920s

Modest Hopes: Homes and Stories of Toronto's Workers from the 1820s to the 1920s

Loucks, Don
Valpy, Leslie

Paperback

Canadian HistoryGeneral ArchitectureGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 145974554X
ISBN13: 9781459745544
Publisher: Thomas Allen Publ
Published: Oct 12 2021
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.93 Depth: 8.43
Language: English

Celebrating Toronto's built heritage of row houses, semis, and cottages and the people who lived in them.

Despite their value as urban property, Toronto's workers' cottages are often characterized as being small, cramped, poorly built, and in need of modernization or even demolition. But for the workers and their families who originally lived in them from the 1820s to the 1920s, these houses were far from modest. Many had been driven off their ancestral farms or had left the crowded conditions of tenements in their home cities abroad. Once in Toronto, many lived in unsanitary conditions in makeshift shantytowns or cramped shared houses in downtown neighbourhoods such as The Ward. To then move to a self-contained cottage or rowhouse was the result of an unimaginably strong hope for the future and a commitment to family life.

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