Day: 30 June 2018

Ethnicity and Segregation in Ottawa-Hull, 1961

The basic search screen for the CityStats tool.

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.

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Second City, Second Metro: No Changes Please, Things Are Already (Almost) Perfect in Stittsville

After having formally become a Village in 1961 (as opposed to a Police Village), things seemed to be firing on all cylinders for Stittsville. Pictured here are Brenda and Debby Ann Bradley with their prize-winning heifer, Duchess, in 1958. Image: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. 1972-047 NPC Box 06271 Item 604.

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.

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