Tompkinsville, Cape Breton Island: Co-operativism and Vernacular Architecture

Cape Breton Island's architectural landscape has a high percentage of "company housing" built for coal miners and their families in the early years of the twentieth century. By the 1930s, some of these dwellings were in poor condition. This paper examines one group of miners and their...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacKinnon, Richard
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Material Culture Review / Revue de la culture matérielle 1996
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Online Access:https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MCR/article/view/17701