Weekend reading #2: Building houses in Meadowlands, circa 1956

From Nepean This Week , and article about early developments in Nepean’s Meadowlands area in the 1950’s: Meadowlands residents remember the houses they built together when the area was farmland. … This year marks the 50th anniversary of a group of families in Nepean, mostly of young scientists in their late 20s from Radio Propagation Laboratory in Shirleys Bay, who organized themselves into a co-operative and built homes in the Meadowlands area when it was still dirt roads and farmland. ...