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Boarding Houses and Clubhouses

From ‘A Corporate View of Housing and Community in a Company Town: Copper Cliff, 1886-1920’ by Eileen A. Goltz, information is provided on the distinction between clubhouses and boarding houses.  

“The term clubhouse was used in Copper Cliff to describe buildings that provided room and board for non-labouring Anglo-Saxons.  They were directly from the company's general offices, which bought provisions, hired housekeepers, and deducted room and board from the wages of those who lived there. 

Although most boarding houses in the village belonged to the company, they were not administered like the clubhouses.  Rather, they were rented to managers, who submitted their room and board accounts to  the company for collection.  The money was deducted from the wages of the employees concerned and transferred to the boarding house proprietors after the company had deducted rents and other amounts owed to it by the managers.

Private boarding houses in the non-Anglo-Saxon sections were smaller than those built by the company and catered to people of the same ethnic background as the owner, since most immigrants chose to live in establishments that appeared to be extensions of the old world culture.”

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