Buying wood & building farms : marketing lumber and farm building designs on the Canadian Prairies, 1880 to 1920 / G.E. Mills.

Buying wood & building farms : marketing lumber and farm building designs on the Canadian Prairies, 1880 to 1920 / G.E. Mills.

Alternate Title
: 
Buying wood and building farms

Translated Title
: 
Acheter son bois et construire sa ferme.

By
: 
Mills, G. E.

Publication Date
: 
1991

Publication Information
: 
Ottawa, Ont. : National Historic Sites, Parks Service, Environment Canada,

Physical Description
: 
199 p. : ill., plans.

Subject Term
: 
Lumber trade -- Prairie Provinces -- History.
 
Farm buildings -- Prairie Provinces -- Design.

Series
: 
STUDIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY, ARCHITECTURE AND HISTORY / CANADIAN HERITAGE. PARKS CANADA.,

Bibliography Note
: 
Includes bibliographical references: p. 191-199.

Summary
: 
This document examines the nature of the Prairie lumber trade and its influence on farm buildings. It describes the various types of mass-produced building systems, plan publications, and marketing methods that appeared on the Prairies during those decades. It also provides a survey of published plans and built examples of pre-1920 farmhouses, barns, and layouts to illustrate the influences exerted by plan books and mail-order building manufacturers.

Language
: 
English

ISBN
: 
9780660138015

General Note
: 
Issued also in French under title: Acheter son bois et construire sa ferme.


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