Rebuilding HalifaxUsing the perspectives of law, politics, public policy and intergovernmental relations, historian Barry Cahill describes the complex activities of an almost-unaccountable agency that took the place of municipal, provincial and federal governments in addressing the needs of the citizens and the city after the Explosion. He provides new insight into the pioneering town planning and construction of the Hydrostone neighbourhood in Halifax. He also explains why this ad-hoc disaster agency continued to operate for nearly sixty years after the catastrophic event that precipitated its establishment. This book offers a new and unique perspective on the recovery efforts which followed a domestic disaster unprecedented in Canadian history. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
28 January 31 December Acadian Adams’s appointed April Beazley bill Board of Control Borden Cabinet Canada Canadian Pension Commission chair Chairman Rogers Citizen City Council City of Halifax city’s civic claims commis commission’s Commissioner Tibbs compensation Council PC Dartmouth disaster relief district emergency February federal government Fowke Halifax Acadian Recorder Halifax Daily Echo Halifax Disaster Halifax Evening Mail Halifax Explosion Halifax Harbour Halifax Herald Halifax Morning Chronicle Halifax Relief Commission Halifax Relief Committee Halifax Relief Fund housing Hydrostone January labour MacIlreith March mayor meeting MG 20 vol MG 36 series million minister of finance Minutes municipal North End North Enders Nova Scotia Order in Council Ottawa powers Premier Murray prime minister provincial reconstruction recovery rehabilitation Relief Commission scrapbook response Richmond Heights series C file sion survivors tenants Thomas Adams Toronto town planning unidentified newscutting Wallace War Measures Act