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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, […]

St. Patrick’s College, Ottawa

The ISA played an active role in promoting the social justice activities of the Catholic Church. The papal encyclicals of the day, letters from the Pope directing the […]

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 […]

Father Moses Coady

Father Moses Coady was a cousin of Tompkins. Like Tompkins, he was relentless in spreading the message that, through education and co-operation, people could better their lives and […]

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, […]

Co-operative fisheries, Pictou, Nova Scotia

It took a few years, but eventually Father Tompkins encouraged the fishermen to work together. They needed to understand what was causing their poor circumstances and learn how […]

Co-operative fisheries, Caribou, Nova Scotia

It took a few years, but eventually Father Tompkins encouraged the fishermen to work together to understand their financial situation and to learn how to improve it. Economic […]