Cover -- Contents -- I: INTRODUCTION -- 1. The City Building Process in Canada -- II: URBAN GROWTH STRATEGIES -- 2. Ideology and Political Economy in Urban Growth: Guelph, 1827-1927 -- 3. Montreal Banks and the Urban Development of Quebec, 1840-1914 -- 4. Staples and the New Industrialism in the Growth of Post-Confederation Halifax -- 5. In Pursuit of Growth: Municipal Boosterism and Urban Development in the Canadian Prairie West, 1871-1913 -- III: EVOLVING URBAN FORM -- 6. Physical Expansion and Socio-Cultural Segregation in Quebec City, 1765-1840 -- 7. Speculation and the Physical Expansion of Mid-Nineteenth Century Hamilton -- 8. The subdivision Process in Toronto, 1851-1883 -- 9. Building Halifax, 1841-1871 -- 10. Reshaping the Urban Landscape? Town Planning Efforts in Kitchener/Waterloo, 1912-1926 -- 11. The Development and Beautification of an Industrial City: Maisonneuve, 1883-1918 -- 12. From Land Assembly to Social Maturity: The Suburban Life of Westdale (Hamilton), Ontario, 1911-1951 -- 13. Politics, Space, and Trolleys: Mass Transit in Early Twentieth-Century Toronto -- 14. "C.P.R. Town": The City-Building Process in Vancouver, 1860-1914 -- 15. Canadian Resource Towns in Historical Perspective -- Notes on Editors -- Notes on Contributors.