Sweat Equity – The Grimsby Homebuilding Co-operative 1953-1956 Sweat Equity – The Grimsby Homebuilding Co-operative 1953–1956 Grimsby Museum
“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 […]
This is a portrait of Father Jimmy Tompkins taken in Canso, Nova Scotia circa 1923, where he was posted and lived for 12 years. His Parish included 3 […]
Charlie and Pat met in Ireland, emigrated with friends to Canada and settled in Hamilton in the early 1950s. Charlie had worked with friend Jim Burns at Co-op […]
At a single meeting, over 500 people showed up to hear about building a home of their own. Not all would continue once they learned of the mandatory […]
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 […]
Father Sherlock (later Bishop) and Father O’Brien (later Monsignor) gathered with small groups in Hamilton to discuss co-op homebuilding. After visiting Marrocco’s flagship co-op building group in Ottawa, […]
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 […]
John: Well, there is a memorial [stone] to [the Co-op housing project] in Morocco Park is a memorial to Walter [Muise] too. If it wasn’t for Walter, that […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bill Joyce in conversation 1995 Bill: I really feel that everybody, everybody worked to their potential, that it’s a bit like the army or something. A fellow like […]