The Municipal System of Saskatchewan

Card covers, 87 pages, 8.5x5.5 in - 22x15 cm, B&W photographs.

Covers soiled, front cover creased at top corner and bumped at bottom near spine, back cover bumped at top near spine. Tidelines at top corner of title page. Pages age-tanned with tidelines at top of many, pp.53-78 tidelines at bottom corner, all pages readable.

In this book, George Dawson (then an administrative assistant with Saskatchewan's Department of Municipal Affairs) explains municipal governance in the province. Dawson first sketches Saskatchewan's municipal boundaries, explains the early history of municipal governance in Canada, outlines the composition of municipal councils, and defends such governance's value. He then turns to the obligations and controls that municipal governments hold (in areas such as taxation, education, and agriculture). Dawson concludes with an explanation of the Department of Municipal Affairs. Throughout, he mixes political history and stories of regional development into his exposition of government administration at the provincial and municipal level. This edition includes material from a Britnell-Cronkite-Jacobs Report on Provincial-Municipal Relations commissioned in 1948, after the first edition's publication.