Awards

• Winner of Alcuin Citation for excellence in book design in Canada, Alcuin Society 1999 (Canada)
• Winner of Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design in Canada: Prose Non-Fiction 1999.

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... readers will enjoy this humanized view of Canadian architecture. Ward's book is a welcome complement to the recently published Homeplace by Peter Ennals and Deryck Holdsworth. -- Laurie Stanley-Blackwell * CBRA 2239 * Throughout, in direct, simple prose, Ward offers stimulating observations on and excellent documentation of the domestic landscape. The photographs and other illustrations are, likewise, highly informative ... highly recommended for all architecture, interior design, and material culture collections. -- Paul Glassman, New York School of Interior Design Library * Library Journal * ... packed with wonderful historic details about real Canadian homes and families ... both of these books provide fascinating nuggets of information ... about topics that have been obscured by our myth-making American neighbour. And they bring to life the unique texture of daily Canadian life that was buried in our mothers', fathers', and grandparents' journals, letters, pictures and stories. -- Frances Bula * The Vancouver Sun *

... readers will enjoy this humanized view of Canadian architecture. Ward's book is a welcome complement to the recently published Homeplace by Peter Ennals and Deryck Holdsworth. -- Laurie Stanley-Blackwell * CBRA 2239 * Throughout, in direct, simple prose, Ward offers stimulating observations on and excellent documentation of the domestic landscape. The photographs and other illustrations are, likewise, highly informative ... highly recommended for all architecture, interior design, and material culture collections. -- Paul Glassman, New York School of Interior Design Library in Library Journal ... packed with wonderful historic details about real Canadian homes and families ... both of these books provide fascinating nuggets of information ... about topics that have been obscured by our myth-making American neighbour. And they bring to life the unique texture of daily Canadian life that was buried in our mothers', fathers', and grandparents' journals, letters, pictures and stories. -- Frances Bula, Vancouver Sun

... packed with wonderful historic details about real Canadian homes and families ... both of these books provide fascinating nuggets of information ... about topics that have been obscured by our myth-making American neighbour. And they bring to life the unique texture of daily Canadian life that was buried in our mothers’, fathers’, and grandparents’ journals, letters, pictures and stories. -- Frances Bula * The Vancouver Sun * Throughout, in direct, simple prose, Ward offers stimulating observations on and excellent documentation of the domestic landscape. The photographs and other illustrations are, likewise, highly informative ... highly recommended for all architecture, interior design, and material culture collections. -- Paul Glassman, New York School of Interior Design Library * Library Journal * ... readers will enjoy this humanized view of Canadian architecture. Ward’s book is a welcome complement to the recently published Homeplace by Peter Ennals and Deryck Holdsworth. -- Laurie Stanley-Blackwell * CBRA 2239 *

... packed with wonderful historic details about real Canadian homes and families ... both of these books provide fascinating nuggets of information ... about topics that have been obscured by our myth-making American neighbour. And they bring to life the unique texture of daily Canadian life that was buried in our mothers', fathers', and grandparents' journals, letters, pictures and stories. -- Frances Bula, Vancouver Sun Throughout, in direct, simple prose, Ward offers stimulating observations on and excellent documentation of the domestic landscape. The photographs and other illustrations are, likewise, highly informative ... highly recommended for all architecture, interior design, and material culture collections. -- Paul Glassman, New York School of Interior Design Library in Library Journal ... readers will enjoy this humanized view of Canadian architecture. Ward's book is a welcome complement to the recently published Homeplace by Peter Ennals and Deryck Holdsworth. -- Laurie Stanley-Blackwell CBRA 2239

Author Information

Peter Ward teaches in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia.

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