@inbook{1102, keywords = {Breithaupt family, Breithaupt Louis Jacob (1855-1939), Politicians, Ethnic identity, Mennonites, Germans, Occupations, Urbanization, Waterloo, Kitchener, Berlin (Ontario)}, author = {Elizabeth Bloomfield and Gilbert Stelter and Alan Artibise}, title = {Community leadership and decision-making: entrepreneurial elites in two Ontario towns, 1870-1930}, abstract = {A discussion of the power of community elites in Berlin/Kitchener and Waterloo. The author reports systematic analysis of the economic, political and associational roles of community leaders, based on evidence of wealth, business success, occupation, municipal office-holding, ethnocultural background, church affiliation and participation in boards of trade and other voluntary associations. Two "concrete decisions" are compared to illustrate how community leaders exercised their decision- making power: the municipal "industrial policy" of bonusing manufacturers from the 1870s, and the city planning movement of 1912-14.}, year = {1986}, journal = {Power and place: Canadian urban development in the North American context}, number = {Book, Section}, pages = {104. graphs, tabl., bibl., 82+}, publisher = {University of British Columbia Press}, address = {Vancouver}, language = {English}, }