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About The Canadian Farmhouse
Early Canadian farmhouses were a European home style brought to Canada by early European settlers. Quebec’s early settlers brought a mixture of Gothic and Swiss home designs. Ontario, farmhouses of the late 1800’s depicted more of the Victoria influence, hence the Victorian Farmhouse. Earlier Farm homes featured clapboard and later homes used brick. A vast majority of these homes had porches that wrapped around the home our accented the front of the home. Western Canada’s dwellings were a mixture mainly of single story wooden homesteads to primitive straw huts. Later when railroads were used to transport materials, the building of wooden houses became more popular as the building materials for the home was shipped from the Rockies (Alberta, BC, Montana). By 1915 most Canadians had the option of buying and building their farmhouse from kits, complete with farmhouse plans from the Eaton's catalogue. Because of cooler climates, the Canadian farmhouse often had porches that were enclosed.
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