@phdthesis{310,
  keywords = {Housing, Germans, Architecture},
  author = {Brian Coffey},
  title = {The Pioneer House in Southern Ontario, Canada: Construction Material use and Resultant Forms to 1850},
  abstract = {This dissertation examines the evolution and distribution of domestic architectural patterns in Southern Ontario. The research seeks to define the relative importance of the various factors affecting construction material use, architectural transitions, and building forms during the period of early settlement. The problem is approached by tracing the transition from a log to a non-log landscape, defining the elements effecting this transition, and establishing a taxonomy of early Ontario house types. In an attempt to define ethnic characteristics, data gathered by the Canadian Inventory of Historic Building (C.I.H.B.) are examined and an analysis of these records is presented. Findings indicate that individual economic status was of primary importance in log/non-log habitation. The appearance of non-log houses is also shown to have been inversely related to distance from water and overland transportation routes. When selecting non-log building materials (i.e., frame, brick, or stone) two factors, individual economic status and labor availability, are found to have had the greatest influence on householders' decisions. Natural resources are also shown to have affected the spatial extent of some structures. Ethnicity had limited impact on construction material use. Direct ethnic relationships are found with the Scots (stone) and the Germans (squared logs). Other seeming ethnic associations are found to have actually had economic considerations as their underlying cause. Analysis of the data provided by the C.I.H.B. shows that the value of this source is limited. The information does not permit identification of ethnic relationships. Further, flaws in the survey's design and administration restrict its use to the derivation of a general classification on Ontario house types. The study, then, establishes those factors affecting change and choice in the basic housing stock of pioneer Ontario. It also presents a classification of early house types. However, ethnic characteristics inherent in non-log forms cannot be determined via C.I.H.B. records and it is recommended that this source be used only with a thorough understanding of its limitations.},
  year = {1982},
  edition = {PhD},
  number = {Dissertation/Thesis},
  pages = {1-220, },
  publisher = {University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.},
  language = {English},
}