A postwar annexation that built most of the city
Burlington’s key date for our purposes is 1 January 1958, when the town annexed most of Nelson Township along with Aldershot and expanded its boundaries to roughly fifty-five thousand acres and its population to around thirty-two thousand. By the 1960s most Aldershot farms had been sold to developers, which places a great deal of Burlington’s housing in the roughly 1958 to 1975 window: detached bungalows and two storey homes on plywood subfloor nailed rather than glued to dimensional joists. Burlington also has the highest pre-1961 share of the Halton and Durham towns we work in, driven by that postwar bungalow band plus the older downtown around the original Wellington Square and Port Nelson villages. Roseland is a 1920s planned garden suburb, and while several dates circulate for it we would rather describe it that way than repeat a year we cannot stand behind.