The Manordale neighbourhood in Nepean is located between Greenbank and Woodroffe, north of West Hunt Club.  It was one of the first planned neighbourhoods in Nepean and begun in the late 1950s. The area was marketed under a few different names: Manordale Heights, Manordale Villa and Manordale.  There were 4 main builders who constructed the houses in the original area: Dale Construction, Kirk Builders, MacDonald Construction and Skead Brothers. I do not have all of the floor plans, but I have been able to cobble together a number of the plans by each builder. Below are a series of newspaper articles and ads, plus the floor plans that I have on file. If you have any plans or brochures for Manordale please let me know as I would love to share them! The Ottawa Citizen. October 30, 1958 The Ottawa Journal. October 30, 1958 The Ottawa Citizen. September 11, 1958 The Ottawa Citizen. November 5, 1958 The Ottawa Citizen. March 13, 1959 The Ottawa Journal. April 22, 1959 The Ott...

The Glen Cairn neighbourhood of Kanata was originally built with big expectations...as Canada's Centennial City. During the opening week of the model homes in 1963, approximately 90,000-100,000 people visited the site. The houses in the first phase range in style from more traditional, to some daring mid-century modern designs. I am not sure what happened along the way, but the development did not become an actual "city". The northeast quadrant was built close to the original plan, but the subsequent phases have a different layout. The master plan called for industrial land, but I am not exactly certain where this was supposed to be. The original proposal leads me to believe that it was planned for both north (along Hazeldean) and south of Glen Cairn (where there currently is a business park). Also interesting is how the original plan was to be designed so that children would not have to cross an arterial road to get to school. This was something that was a ...