HIS261H5 Lecture Notes - English Canada, Eastern Canada, Atlantic World
Document Summary
Street car suburbs: lines were laid out in the 1890s. Physical evidence in city form all over the old cities of central & eastern canada. Smaller businesses into large businesses, time of business merger. Feature of urban life = middle class urban life = shopping, performing arts, massive. & north america, not all pure canadian activity, canada was connected to other parts of the world where technology and money came from. Age of reform: late 19th century into ww1 (1880s 1920s) Essentially the phenomena that created the foundation of the modern day interventionist state, because it did that it challenged the principles of private property, neoliberalism & freedom of families. Not only be devoted to yourself, but to the world. Word reform: fundamental challenge to the way things are, goes against the current. Reform party in 1980s good time to challenge what everyone thought.
