Kanata's original neighbourhoods, and almost no new build
Beaverbrook and Katimavik are the two Kanata neighbourhoods worth talking about for floor work, and both are considerably older than Kanata’s reputation suggests. Beaverbrook was Kanata’s first residential neighbourhood, planned by Bill Teron as a garden city community, with the first street developed in 1964. Katimavik followed when Campeau Corporation started the Chimo Drive area between Katimavik and Kakulu roads in the early to mid 1970s, modelled on Teron’s approach, with more building west of Castlefrank and between Kakulu and Hazeldean through the 1980s and early 1990s. In census terms the Katimavik area is remarkable: over ninety per cent of its dwellings predate 1991 and effectively none have been built since 2001. That is a stable stock of forty to sixty year old two storey wood-frame homes on nailed plywood and early sheet subfloor.