Special Issue on Housing : Editor's Introduction

Although in most respects the amount and quality of Canadian research on the history of urban housing cannot compare with that on British and U.S. cities, in recent years its comparative disadvantage has been reduced. As much significant scholar ship has been published on the subject in the past ten years as in the previous fifty.1 The 1990s have seen the publication of the first history of housing in Canada;2 the first scholarly history of …