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A Guide to Co-operative Housing: Chapter 5 Finding a Site

page 2 “Because of the lack of suitable sites at a reasonable price for a co-operative housing groups within most cities today, it is probable that the co-operative […]

A Guide to Co-operative Housing: Chapter 2 What Others Have Done

p. 13-14 (f) THE COADYVILLE HOUSING Co OPERATIVE 98. Ronnie McDougall, Secretary of the Coadyviile Housing Co-op, Sydney, N. S., reports that their $400 homes would have cost […]

A Guide to Co-operative Housing: Chapter 1 Education before Excavation

Night school students at the ISA were learning how they could improve social conditions affecting work and family life. (Through the ISA, they were also volunteering as lay […]

Mary Arnold with co-op builders in Reserve Mines, Nova Scotia

Arnold, a Quaker and an American activist in housing co-operatives, went to study the work being done at St. Francis Xavier University’s Extension Department in 1937. She remained […]

Masters of their own Destiny: The story of the Antigonish Movement of Adult Education through Economic Co-operation

A member of the Extension Department staff at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Dr. M.M. Coady was a prominent speaker. His book, Masters of Their Own Destiny, […]

Mid-winter on Marysfield Drive

In the hamlet of Wildfield, on a street named Marysfield Drive, 14 mostly Catholic families from Parkdale formed the Family Home Builder Co-operative Ltd. They chose to build […]

Komadoski family

Feeding the workers The Komadoski family, Helen and Mike, had moved into their co-op home while the co-op was still in progress. She remembers cooking for some of […]

Barb Colleary with her daughter, Barb

Grassy lawns eventually replaced muddy yards, to the delight of Barb Colleary and her daughter. Barb: Oh that red mud. Oh [emphatic] the mud. Everything was dyed […]

Barb and John Colleary in their co-op-built home, 1995.

Barb, who was living in a noisy location in Hamilton, was thrilled to think she would be living by the lake. Barb: We used to walk right […]

Charlie and Patricia Gallagher in their co-op- built home 1995.

Charlie recalls the crowding and the carpooling that they didn’t anticipate but certainly learned reliance on each other. Charlie: Yeah, a lot of people backed out when […]