In January 1941, the hulking twenty-one thousand ton troopship Edmund B. Alexander
docked in St John's harbor, carrying a thousand American soldiers sent to join the …

For both visitors and St. John's residents under 40, the location from Carter's Hill to
Springdale Street (from east to west), and from John, Central, and Livingstone Streets to …

BETWEEN 1944 AND 1949 a large suburban development took shape in the valley north of
the city limits of St. John's. Churchill Park was one of the earliest planned post-war suburban …

THIS IS THE THIRD AND FINAL EDITED DOCUMENT in a series relating to the
development of the Churchill Park “Garden Suburb” in St. John's, Newfoundland in the …

This article investigates how gendered middle class family ideals were used to relocate
administratively defined “good citizens” from a multidimensional yet often demonized “slum” …

T he lead author of this paper grew up in downtown St. John's in the late 1960s and early
1970s. He witnessed the building of the new City Hall. City Hall stood alone in the midst of …

This paper is an investigation of the impact of social and spatial factors on the childhood
experience in the inner-city of St. John's from 1935 to 1966. This covers the last three …

Clearing the Slums Page 1 Clearing the Slums: The Evolution of Public Housing in St. John’s,
Newfoundland, 1910-1956 by © Keith Collier A thesis submitted to the School of Graduate …

As a result of the congestion of buildings and the high density of population, this is also the
area where the greatest number of street accidents occur, most of which involve children …

7 St. John's was never lacking in eloquent and well-informed citizens. One of them was City
Councillor John T. Meaney who, on 4 May 1939, proposed that the Municipal Council ask …