1: Housing and Privacy
2: Interiors
Little House, Big House
The Question of Crowding
The Organization of Household Space
Domestic Technology and Interior Spaces
The Bathroom
The Parlour
The Kitchen
The Bedroom
The Apartment
3: The House in Its Setting
The Farmhouse
The Villa
The Home in City and Suburb
The Front of the House
Porches, Verandahs, Patios, Decks Gardens and Yards
4: Privacy and the Canadian Home
Notes
Suggested Reading
Illustration Credits
Index
Peter Ward teaches in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia.
... packed with wonderful historic details about real Canadian
homes and families ... both of these books provide fascinating
nuggets of information ... about topics that have been obscured by
our myth-making American neighbour. And they bring to life the
unique texture of daily Canadian life that was buried in our
mothers’, fathers’, and grandparents’ journals, letters, pictures
and stories.
*The Vancouver Sun*
Throughout, in direct, simple prose, Ward offers stimulating
observations on and excellent documentation of the domestic
landscape. The photographs and other illustrations are, likewise,
highly informative ... highly recommended for all architecture,
interior design, and material culture collections.
*Library Journal*
... readers will enjoy this humanized view of Canadian
architecture. Ward’s book is a welcome complement to the recently
published Homeplace by Peter Ennals and Deryck Holdsworth.
*CBRA 2239*
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