CCOC has had its eye on the Beaver Barracks property at Catherine, Metcalfe and Argyle for over twenty years. When we won the City’s request for proposals in July 2007, we were thrilled. And then we all got to work! For the past five years, everyone at CCOC – volunteers, tenants and staff – has […]
CCOC built our first building at 50 James Street in 1979. This five storey building with twenty-two apartments has nine planter boxes where tenants grow vegetables, herbs and flowers. In the late 70’s and 80’s, under the National Housing Act funding, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) would fund green roofs and planter box gardens […]
