Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Preface 11
5. PART ONE: the big picture
6. 1 Buying a House in Newfoundland 17
7. 2 Cooperatives and Housing 37
8. 3 Houses for Working Men 62
9. 4 Mr. Gorvin’s Grand Plan 86
10. 5 Canadian National Housing Policy, 1938–54. 120
11. PART TWO: crafting a housing program
12. 6 Housing Initiatives in St. John’s and Corner Brook 141
13. 7 The War Veterans Fight for Housing 165
14. 8 Gander: An Airport in Need of a Town 190
15. 9 Developing the Provincial Cooperative Housing Policy 207
16. PART THREE: building the houses
17. 10 Building the Houses: Getting Started 227
18. 11 Building the Houses: After Work and in the Dark 263
19. 12 Was the Housing Shortage Solved? 286
20. Appendices
21. 1. Dramatis Personae 305
22. 2. Governors and Commissioners of Newfoundland, 1934–49 311
23. 3. Mary Arnold’s Correspondence Regarding the Maryland Resettlement Project 313
24. 4. Proposed Plan for Land Settlements 332
25. 5. Excerpts from the National Housing Acts, 1949 and 1954 335
26. 6. Speech to the House of Assembly by the Honorable William Keough 340
27. 7. An Act Further to Amend the Slum Clearance Act, 1950 342
28. 8. The 1954 Cooperative Housing Agreement between CMHC and Newfoundland 344
29. 9. CMHC Commitment Letters 348
30. 10. CMHC and Division of Cooperative Inspection Reports 353
31. 11. A Letter Rejecting a Request from a Cooperative Housing Society for Additional Time to Complete Its Houses 359
32. 12. Sweat Equity Cooperative Housing Societies in Newfoundland 361
33. Notes 365
34. Bibliography 404
35. Index 431