Excerpt from The First Canadian Housing and Town Planning Congress: Industrial Bureau Auditorium, Winnipeg, July 15th, 16th and 17th, 1912 As population increases, new districts must be opened up to ac commodate the addition, and plans must be evolved so that the condi tions in the new districts as regards housing and hygiene be adequate and thorough. The citizens must take broad views of the efforts of a town planning commission, so that from an aesthetic point of View the improvements may be a pride and credit to them. The effort re quires a broad-minded, unselfish indulgence on the part of the people. But the question may be asked: Are the people prepared to build for the betterment of a city? Have they the courage moral and financial, to grapple with the problem? We think they have. Our Town Planning Commission is composed of public spirited men, well able to carry out a town planning scheme, and they are putting into their work a great deal of valuable time, and their re commendations, we are confident, will be worthy of the consideration of our citizens. I hope this meeting, gathered for the consideration of schemes of city planning, housing and the improvement of cities, will be crowned with success and prosperity, and that you strangers within our gates will thoroughly enjoy your sojourn in our city, and that the present be a memorable gathering on the question of town planning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.