It is also valued as a reminder of the active building period in Kelowna's North End neighbourhood during the post-war years, in a setting with a substantial number of dwellings similar in design and scale.īy the early 1940s, with the population growing from people engaged in the industries that filled war needs, housing in Kelowna, as in so many Canadian urban centres, was in desperately short supply. The principal value of this modest bungalow is as a prototype built by a federal agency, Wartime Housing Ltd., intended to develop an appropriate and affordable house-type to address the shortage of housing for servicemen (and their families) returning from World War II.
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