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Modest Hopes - by Don Loucks & Leslie Valpy (Paperback)

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  • Celebrating Toronto's built heritage of row houses, semis, and cottages and the people who lived in them.Despite their value as urban property, Toronto's workers' cottages are often characterized as being small, cramped, poorly built, and in need of modernization or even demolition.
  • About the Author: Don Loucks is an architect, urban designer, and cultural heritage planner, with forty years of project experience.
  • 288 Pages
  • History, Social History

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About the Book



"Modest hopes" are the houses that were home to the people who built Toronto. These small homes found in rows, semis, or the rare detached, still exist throughout the older neighbourhoods of Toronto, yet they are an under-valued and endangered heritage resource.



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Celebrating Toronto's built heritage of row houses, semis, and cottages and the people who lived in them.

Despite their value as urban property, Toronto's workers' cottages are often characterized as being small, cramped, poorly built, and in need of modernization or even demolition. But for the workers and their families who originally lived in them from the 1820s to the 1920s, these houses were far from modest. Many had been driven off their ancestral farms or had left the crowded conditions of tenements in their home cities abroad. Once in Toronto, many lived in unsanitary conditions in makeshift shantytowns or cramped shared houses in downtown neighbourhoods such as The Ward. To then move to a self-contained cottage or rowhouse was the result of an unimaginably strong hope for the future and a commitment to family life.

Through the stories of eight families who lived in these "Modest Hopes," authors Don Loucks and Leslie Valpy bring an important but forgotten part of the Toronto narrative to life. They illuminate the development of Toronto's working-class neighbourhoods, such as Leslieville, Corktown, and others, and explain the designs and architectural antecedents of these undervalued heritage properties.



About the Author



Don Loucks is an architect, urban designer, and cultural heritage planner, with forty years of project experience. He is committed to environmental, economic, and cultural sustainability and to preserving the variety of rich urban forms that contain the stories of our communities' history. He lives in Toronto.
Leslie Valpy is a conservation practitioner, researcher, and writer, with a passion for built heritage, history, architecture, and conservation. Working with both intangible and tangible dimensions of heritage, she has participated in a range of projects throughout Ontario. She lives in Toronto.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.43 Inches (H) x 6.93 Inches (W) x .71 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.01 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Social History
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 288
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Don Loucks & Leslie Valpy
Language: English
Street Date: October 12, 2021
TCIN: 1003272885
UPC: 9781459745544
Item Number (DPCI): 247-22-5871
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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