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^[1], →ISBN, page xvi:

     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, Maurice Richard Libby, Moose Jaw: People, Places, History, →ISBN, page 150:

     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, page 109:

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

   • 2008 December 20, Tracy Hanes, “Christmas comes early for Hamilton family”, in 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”, in 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