Canadians love living in the suburbs so why are we not building more of them
Friday Oct 26th, 2018
ShareERIC CHOW/THE GLOBE AND MAIL Canada’s National Dream, the modern edition, began in 1953. That was the year Don Mills, the country’s first large-scale, fully planned suburb, began selling affordable, ranch-style homes north of Toronto. Immediately, middle-class Canadian families yearning for their own bit of heaven – a yard, a garage and room for the children to play – began packing their bags for the burbs. And almost as quickly, folks who claimed to know... [read more]
