Owner/Community-Built Vernacular Houses in Canada
| Author | Kalman, Harold D. |
| Notes | TofC, Glossary, Index of Buildings; General Index; Bibliography. Illus: B&W advertisements drawings, photographs (many archival), maps, art reproductions, floor plans, town plans. All types of early owner-built or community-built architecture are included. See especially VOLUME I: CH 1: THE FIRST BUILDINGS: native longhouses, wigwams, lodges, etc. (e.g., Huron, Iroquois, Seneca, Micmac Ojibwa Chippewa), and early European colonizers (L'Anse aux Meadows, Champlain's Habitations); Ch. 2: NEW FRANCE: Louisbourg, early Quebec city, seigneurial allotments, domestic architecture (e.g., Girardin House, Beauport; ), Acadia's pre-and post-expulsion houses; Acadian Historical Village;, etc.); CH. 3: BRITISH AND AMERICAN SETTLEMENT ON THE ATLANTIC COAST: Newfoundland tilts, early vertical log houses, full-studded houses, etc.; Maritimes houses including the Romkey plank-walled house in Lunenburg, a Pictou stone cottage, the Calkin House near Grande Pre, the Simeon Perkins House at Liverpool, plus an essay on the house types of the Loyalist era. CH. 4: CLASSICISM IN UPPER AND LOWER CANADA: Includes a section on the Log House, with examples. CH. 7: EARLY BUILDINGS ON THE PRAIRIES: covers native building by Plains Indians, the Red River Settlement, the Selkirk Settlement, Metis houses such as the Pierre Delorme house of Red River Frame and the Fayant log homestead, Mennonite settlements and house/barns, etc. CH. 8: THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST COAST: native plank and pit houses, the Helmcken and Tod houses in Victoria, miner's cabins at Barkerville, the O'Keefe ranch near Vernon, etc. VOLUME II: CH. 9: THE OPENING OF THE WEST: rural settlement, including homesteads with sod or log houses; prefabricated houses; ethnic variations from Ukrainians, Hutterites, Jews, Doukhobors, etc. CH. 11: DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE: Architectural styles, pattern book houses, prefabricated houses,etc. CH. 13: THE TRUE NORTH: early Thule houses of whalebone, wood, stone, sod, etc., Inuit snow houses and skin tents, Robert Service log cabin, contemporary native log houses or prefabricated government houses, etc. Architectural styles, construction methods and materials, are discussed throughout the books. SEE ALSO the abridged edition: "A Concise History of Canadian Architecture", by Harold Kalman. Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, 2000. |
| Place | Toronto, Ont. |
| Page | 933 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Subject | ADVERTISEMENTS ANALYSIS AND APPRECIATION ARCHAEOLOGY ARCHITECTURAL STYLES ART REPRODUCTIONS BONE CONSTRUCTION BRICK CONSTRUCTION CANADA CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS CONSTRUCTION METHODS COTTAGES AND CABINS DRAWINGS ETHNOHISTORY FLOOR PLANS INDIANS OF CANADA INUIT LOG CONSTRUCTION NATIVE DWELLINGS PATTERN BOOK HOUSES PHOTOGRAPHS PIONEER HOMES PREFABRICATED/MODULAR CONSTRUCTION PRIORITY ONE SHANTIES SKIN CONSTRUCTION SNOW CONSTRUCTION SOD CONSTRUCTION STONE CONSTRUCTION TENTS TOWN PLANS WOOD CONSTRUCTION |
| Title | A History of Canadian Architecture |
| Volume | 2 |
| Summary | Primary Focus: Architectural history. Level: Scholarly/General. |
| Year | 1994 |