Campeau's Cluster Homes A special thank you to a reader for inspiring me to write this post and for sending me the old photo above and ad below from the Ottawa Citizen. When:  Built as rentals in the late 1960s and early 1970s, then converted to for-purchase houses in the 1990s. Where:  Leslie Park: along Monterey Drive, Costello Avenue and Baseline Road; Redwood Park: along Cornell Street, Draper Avenue and Morrison Drive; Riverside Park South: along Provost Drive and Walkley Road. Here is a map I created showing the areas where these houses are located:  https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=16Im3DfzN--9DRbS2GIvVmTSsy3MailxK&usp=sharing What I Know:  The houses in Leslie Park along Baseline Road and Monterey Drive are the most traditional in style, while the houses along Costello Avenue are slightly different from the others in exterior design sporting more contemporary-inspired facades. Different colours, textures/materials and window composition gives...

From approximately 1966-1968 Campeau had a series of detached house plans that they built in multiple neighbourhoods across the city. The floor plan brochures came as a single sheet with the facade image on one side and the plan on the other. The image of a family on the front lawn with the house behind appeared on the front of each plan. They came in a folder that included the suppliers on the inside flap. Some of the plans were updates of earlier Campeau designs and some continued to be built in to the 1970s. Below is a copy of the folder, some price lists and all the floor plans that I have from this series. Some of the plans are depicted twice as there were versions for each year. In the model coding, the last two numbers represent the year of the plan, such as "66" for 1966. ...