HIST 3209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Loss Leader, Eastern Canada, Brockville And Ottawa Railway
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Canadian urban history week 2 lecture 2. Choose an area for paper: top floor of patterson hall rm 426. Relationship of new forms of transportation to new growth of cities today"s lecture: arguments made and how ottawa corresnpond or differs from the generalized models, focus on the physical expansion of the city; not politica. Numer of influcneces on how cities grow: transport innovations increase distance between home and work. This is why you should be cautious when looking at older maps which only show the speculative, hopeful intentions. In north america, these transportation tend to be pioneered by entrepreneurs than municipal governments; the federal government was also a late player in ottawa: i. e. the streetcar route ran along commercial sparks street and not along political. Wellington street federal weakness in ottawa until well into the 20th century groups of business also compete for business on both sides of the river: cultural preference electric streetcar is an american technology.