The best-documented postwar housing in the city
If you want to know exactly how old an Ottawa house is, older Nepean is where the record is clearest. Carleton Heights was developed after the war with most homes not built until around 1950, many for veterans under the Veterans’ Land Act, which produced small houses on large lots. Bel-Air Park’s homes were all built between 1956 and 1958 by Campeau Corporation, and Bel-Air Heights followed in 1959 and 1960. Copeland Park’s first house went up in 1956. Parkwood Hills was planned by architect John Russell in 1959 and built out between 1959 and 1972, largely by Minto, with many of the suburban singles of the era around twelve hundred square feet. City View’s homes were built mostly from the 1930s to the 1960s. All of it is nailed plywood over dimensional joists, and post-2000 replacement in most of these pockets has been minimal.