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Article: Creating community: industrial paternalism and town planning in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, 1923-1955.
- Article from:
- Urban History Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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Abstract
In the early twentieth century numerous primary extractive industries constructed company towns on the resource frontiers of North America. Company directors hoped that massive capital infusion in remote areas in the form of planned towns would secure a much-needed skilled workforce and generally increase returns. The pulp and paper town of Corner Brook in western Newfoundland is a significant, but largely neglected case in point. This paper details the paternalist and utilitarian motivations of companies for single-industry community construction at this time. More importantly, however, it offers a new and critical approach to the issue of ...
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...CORNER BROOK, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR--(CCNMatthews ... unemployed individuals in the metropolitan Corner Brook area. "The Government of Canada is ... funding that will help participants in Corner Brook become more prepared for the workforce ...
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