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Dark Enlightenment, Robert Macdougall
Dark Enlightenment, Robert Macdougall
History Publications
Review of Jeremy Zallen, American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865.
The Story Behind The Ontario Health Insurance Plan And Its Impact On The Public Sector, Marvin L. Simner
The Story Behind The Ontario Health Insurance Plan And Its Impact On The Public Sector, Marvin L. Simner
History Publications
The Ontario Health Insurance Plan is a provincially supported health care program that required fifteen years to develop and emerged though seven distinct and frequently controversial stages. It was said at the time to have generated more heated debate in the House than any other legislation that previously had been approved by the provincial government. The purpose of this report is to provide a comprehensive review of these seven stages, the arguments that accompanied each stage, and the impact of the stages on the local community. In the final section we discuss how certain elements in these stages, if known …
A Turbulent Chapter In The Early 20th Century History Of London, Ontario: The Debacle Over The Federal Square Project, The Acrimonious Debate Over The New City Hall, And The Scandal Over The Electrification, Marvin L. Simner
History Publications
Although the stories of the Federal Square Project, the need for a new city hall, and the London/Port Stanley Railway have been summarized on several occasions, the purpose of this article is to examine the largely forgotten evidence behind each story through use of material that appeared between 1911 and 1928 in the archives of the London Free Press and the London Advertiser. While these undertakings were initiated around 1912 and were largely intended to showcase the city and encourage its growth as a manufacturing and commercial business centre, the archival evidence shows that they also led to substantial …