One of the more interesting tools that I have used for understanding the ethnic and racial composition of Canadian cities in the postwar era is called City Stats. Billed as a tool “designed to encourage the use of measures of residential segregation in Canadian urban history,” it allows the user to run calculations, from the basic to the complex, to understand segregation better in one, several, or all urban areas in Canada.
Continue reading Ethnicity and Segregation in Ottawa-Hull, 1961
When the Village of Stittsville’s Council submitted its Brief to Murray Jones, it painted a picture of blue skies and staunch independence and it had no interest in losing.
Swinging westward, the next contribution came from the Trustees of the Police Village of Manotick, which was then caught between four separate townships, far from their main centres, and unable to have problems solved at that level.
Continue reading Second City, Second Metro: An Upgrade for Manotick
It wasn’t just anxiety over the size of the proposed Queenswood proposal that had gripped Cumberland Township. The question as to where, exactly, the children that would be filling those homes, were to go to school. Continue reading Second City, Second Metro: Cumberland Township Also Needs Schools
When Ottawa Transportation Commission (OTC) Chairman David McMillan and its General Manager George Brady appeared in front of Murray Jones with their submission, it was clear that there was one thing on their minds: financial sustainability.
The University Women’s Club of Ottawa (UWCO) was founded in 1910 by a group of fifty-four women with degrees who came together with the intention of forming a similar club for university-educated women to those in Toronto, Edmonton, and Vancouver. As was the case with many of these voluntary societies, UWCO mission was a blend of social, educational, and charitable ends. In addition to public lectures, to achieve their educational purpose, the UWCO also regularly held study groups on a wide variety of topics. Although they were hardly limited to it, some of the groups represented an opportunity for the members to use their skills and weigh in on the issues of the day.1This is a fairly simplistic boiling down of the UWCO. For an extended look at the history of the first 50 years of the UWCO, see Laurie J. Smith. ‘A Feeling of the Responsibility of Women for Women’: The University Women’s Club of Ottawa, 1910-60. Thesis. Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 2002.
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| ↥1 | This is a fairly simplistic boiling down of the UWCO. For an extended look at the history of the first 50 years of the UWCO, see Laurie J. Smith. ‘A Feeling of the Responsibility of Women for Women’: The University Women’s Club of Ottawa, 1910-60. Thesis. Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 2002. |
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Fifteen years into the Plan for the National Capital (1950)1Better known as the Greber Plan. and many of its discontents had come to be appreciated. It was, after all, one thing of the federal government to develop such a plan, but quite another for the collection of municipalities in the National Capital Region (NCR) to go along with it.
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Just as it had been since the end of the Second World War (and arguably long before), one of the catalysts for advocating changes to local governance was rapid development and the ability of the local government to manage and accommodate it adequately.
Continue reading Second City, Second Metro: Cumberland Township Needs Planners
Between March 17 and April 9, 1965, more than fifty groups presented themselves at the Carleton County council chambers to submit their input to the Local Government Review.
In the final chapter of his Final Report, Jones offered up a summary of his recommendations.
Continue reading Second City, Second Metro: Summary of Recommendations & Complete Report
After outlining the proposed new local government structure, Jones and Paterson’s fifth chapter outlined the financial implications and the potential approach to implementation.
Continue reading Second City, Second Metro: Financial Implications and Implementation
Once Jones & Paterson got themselves a sense of the lay of the land and made their own context and groundwork clear, they proceeded to offer up their specific vision for what a regional government centred on Ottawa would look like.