RURAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 165 



In Canada the Corporation has acquired a large area of land ad- 

 joining the towns of Windsor and Sandwich, in southwestern Ontario. 

 They propose to erect their works on this site, lay out a model town, 

 and provide the whole of the public services, local improvements and 

 social organization needed for the building up of a healthy com- 

 munity. Before any building took place the area was incorporated 

 as the town of Ojibway. These movements of the Steel Corporation, 

 and other large concerns, form part of the modern tendency of manu- 

 facturers and population to disperse over wider areas. Unfortunate- 

 ly, it is accompanied by speculation of the worst kind on the areas 

 immediately adjacent to the town sites acquired by these corpora- 

 tions. All round the towns of Gary and Ojibway land has been sub- 

 divided on a large scale and real estate sub-division has been carried 

 out in such a way as to largely nullify the good effects of the efficient 

 control exercised by the Steel Corporation over its own estates. 

 The absence of proper regulations over these suburban excrescences 

 of new industrial towns leads to disorderly and unhealthy development 

 of the worst kind. The responsibility for this condition rests with the 

 provincial or state governments and rural municipalities, who alone 

 have the power to regulate it. The granting of a charter by the 

 Ontario Government to Ojibway should have been accompanied by 

 some measure to regulate adjacent development and to prevent 

 haphazard, unsightly and unhealthy conditions being created round 

 its boundaries. This was a case in which no money had to be expend- 

 ed to re-model or re-construct built upon areas, but only common 

 sense exercised in preventing bad conditions being established. Unfor- 

 tunately nothing has been done and unbridled speculation in sub- 

 divisions has been proceeding all round Ojibway. Every advance 

 made in sub-dividing the land is adding to the difficulties that wjll 

 have to be encountered to secure proper sanitary conditions and the 

 prevention of slum property being erected. Land will be built upon 

 which cannot be drained or served with water and in the course of 

 time the general community will be called upon to remedy at great 

 cost a set of evils that are the product of neglect and indifference in 

 the initial stages of development. 



The Ontario Government has been appealed to by numerous 

 municipal representatives and associations to pass a planning and 

 development act which will provide for the effective control of these 

 new developments, but the matter is still in abeyance. 



In England the movement on the part of the manufacturers to 

 emigrate from crowded centres to rural districts has been a strongly 

 developed one for over thirty years. Many large works formerly 



