Historians point out that it was only in the 1930s that Canada became predominantly urban. What we don't underline nearly as much, is that by 1960 the majority Canada's urban population actually lived in suburbs. Due to a whole set of factors, not least of which is our shared disdain for suburbia, we have whole bodies of literature on single cities and next to nothing on the suburbs. How can we understand 20th-c history while ignoring the places so many people lived?
#histodons #CdnHist #Canada
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