wartime house

wartime house

English

Noun

wartime house (plural wartime houses)

1. (Canada) Any of a large number of modest, wooden frame houses, typically of Cape-Cod design, built in municipalities across Canada during the 1940s under the federal government's Wartime Housing Limited program.
   • 1997, Marion Kelsey, Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, →ISBN, p. xvi (Google preview):

     Using funds from the sale of their wartime house in Montreal, they purchased a handsome old log house on seven acres of white sand beach in the then still-active fishing community of Port Joli.

   • 2001, John Larsen and ‎Maurice Richard Libby, Moose Jaw: People, Places, History, →ISBN, p. 150 (Google preview):

     On average, a four-room wartime house cost $2,700, and a six-room $3,400. The homes were a hot commodity.

   • 2005, Gregory A. Scofield, Singing Home the Bones, →ISBN, p. 109 (Google preview):

     The house that inspired this prayer is a small wartime house in a working-class neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta.

   • 2008 Dec. 20, Tracy Hanes, "Christmas comes early for Hamilton family," The Star (Toronto, Canada) (retrieved 11 June 2014):

     Originally, a tiny wartime house sat on the corner lot facing on Dunsmure St.

   • 2014 June 5, Alyssa McMurtry, "Out with the old, in with the new," The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon, Canada) (retrieved 11 June 2014):

     If you were driving from Saskatoon to Vanscoy early this morning, you may have seen a wartime house from Spadina Crescent rolling down the highway.

Hypernyms

• house

References

• Information at wartimehouses.com
• History of Wartime Houses at Now House Project