Late-1940s houses, now nearly eighty years old
Manor Park was built in one push after the Second World War. A small mid-1920s development called Rockcliffe Annex already stood on the site; Manor Park was laid out over it, the first families moved in during 1947, and the press of the day called it Canada’s first completely co-ordinated community. The great majority of its houses date from the late 1940s and early 1950s and were built by a consortium of five Ottawa-area developers. That timing puts them at the switch from board to plywood subfloor, and either one was typically nailed rather than glued. Close to eighty Ottawa heating seasons later, those nailed connections have had a long time to work loose. Cardinal Glen is the exception: Timberlay Homes began building it in 1988, so its houses are about forty years younger, with a different floor system.
