Gaslights, epidemics and vagabond cows: Charlottetown in the Victorian era

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Metadata

Model
Book
Publisher
Ragweed Press
Place Published (Jurisdiction)
Prince Edward Island
Place Published
Charlottetown, P.E.I
Date Issued
1988
Mode of Issuance
monographic
Resource Type
Book
Form
print
Extent
vii, [1], 207 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Genre
social history
Table of Contents

Contents: The early years / Peter E. Rider -- Charlottetown social life in 1855 / Alan MacEachern -- The Charlottetown political elite : control from elsewhere / Douglas Baldwin -- Pigs, epidemics, and hospitals : the struggle for public health services / Douglas Baldwin -- A false balance : regulating the marketplace / E. Boyde Beck -- Enforcing the law : the Charlottetown police force / Greg Marquis -- But not a drop to drink : the struggle for pure water / Douglas Baldwin -- Medical science, technology, and politics : the creation of Charlottetown's sewerage system / Douglas Baldwin -- A lamp to light their paths : lighting the streets of Charlottetown / Harry Holman -- Charlottetown life in 1914 / Judy Bellamy.

Note

edited by Douglas Baldwin and Thomas Spira.

Includes indices.

Includes bibliographic references.

Subject (Topical)
Social conditions
History
Subject (Geographic)
Charlottetown (P.E.I.)
Subject (Temporal)
19th century
ISBN
0920304699

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