Meaning of wartime house | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

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Examples

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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