Canadian historians of electric street railways have focussed on a variety of issues: patronage, corruption and Sunday cars (Meen, Armstrong and Nelles); financial investment (Armstrong and Nelles, Bliss, McDowall and Hall); competition from jitneys (Armstrong and Nelles, Doucet, Linteau and Davis); traction methods (Nelles and Armstrong and Due); civic populism and the municipalization of transit (Nelles and Armstrong and Frisken); costs of electricity and fluctuations in demand (Spry); company strategy, political lobbying, the expansion question and urban reform (Nelles and Armstrong, Davis, Doucet, Roy, Weaver and Rutherford); factors shaping street car networks (Selwood); radial railways (Salmon, Wickson and Due); workers and strikes (Nelles and Armstrong, Piva and Kealey and Palmer); and survey histories (Pursley, Filey, Blake and Baker). American and British street railways have been dealt with in similar ways by historians including Warner, Cheape, Ward, McKay, Taylor and Smerk.
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