Several days ago we in the 500 block of Okanagan Boulevard learned that we had earned this year’s heritage conservation award from the Heritage Society. Our homes were built between the years 1946 and 1955 and are a Cape Cod bungalow style. Four major templates were used to create these homes for returning veterans. The criteria for the homes which were $4000 to mortgage was that firstly the veteran had a family or that he was at least married without children. Those with families were the first to be selected for the small homes that had an earthen floor laundry room and wood heat stoves.
The 500 block of Okanagan Boulevard has seem some incursions into the look and feel of the beautiful neighbourhood lined with fifty year old trees. One builder came in and built large carriage houses in what is a relatively small back yard area. The carriage houses, or mother-in-law houses are taller than the surrounding buildings and can be seen looming over yard three or four properties away. Many young renters would come in to share out the rent and they would turn the “garage” area into just another bedroom. Finally, when a drug addict on house arrest ended up having a screaming brawl with an imaginary enemy at 4 am still wearing his anklet care of the police, we began to work at changing the by-laws so that the carriage houses would be more for their intended purpose. With new building codes in place the secondary houses because secondary houses.
One more carriage house has been built in our block and many of the houses which were once owned and cared for have been rented out without close supervision. The resultant lack of paint, dead lawns and pit bull pets have not been good news for the neighbours. We do, however, have many homes that are sweet, well landscaped and loved structures. We do have the ability to lean over our fences and admire a new plant or a blossoming rose bush. We have small gestures that have built this neighbourhood and kept it a place to be grounded. They are as simple as sharing seeds, going for walks together, bringing a straying dog back home, watering the lawn when the neighbour is away in the summer, loaning books or even just stopping to ask how another person is getting on. This is what makes a place one owns or rent a true home. It is about liveability which is every bit as important as sustainability.
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And this is why our neighbourhood so appreciates and deserves the heritage award which will be given out Thursday, February 19th at 7 pm at 2279 Benvolin Road at the Benvolin Church.
Our heritage is for the men and women who fought for a way of life, for the builders who created a way of life and for those of us who have maintained a way of life called a neighbourhood.