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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 4 The Legal side of Co-operative Housing

page 3 The National Housing Act – Under Part 1, Section 4, Subsections 6, 7, 8 of the NHA, joint loans for co-operatives may be made. Two types […]

A Guide to Co-operative Housing: Chapter 3 Financing Co-operative Housing

page 5 The National Housing Act is a Federal Act of Parliament, designed to help more people obtain money for home construction under NHA, loans can be made […]

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 6 Selecting a Plan

A Guide to Co-operative Housing, Chapter 6, Selecting a Plan is one of the eight booklets. The focus on co-operative methods was central. The first chapter stated there […]

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 […]

“34 Family Men Pool Cash, Toil to Build Homes,” The Ottawa Journal, Nov. 10, 1953

Although they were able to raise funds from each of its members for purchase of land, obtaining the down payments for their mortgages proved challenging. After further research, […]

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, […]

Knowledge for the People Booklet

“Knowledge for the People” was written by Father Jimmy Tompkins and published in 1921. Some 5000 copies of this pamphlet were circulated in Nova Scotia. With unemployment driving […]

Hamilton Co-op Housing

Some who attended the information meetings in Hamilton would have learned about co-op homebuilding from this promotional invitation in Hamilton Spectator and other publications in the area. Besides […]

The well-used copy of The Light from One Candle by Rita Larsen Marrocco.

Although this book is the story of a life, it was also an insightful and ‘well used’ source of information about the ‘sweat equity’ co-operative movement in Ontario. […]