It’s a Bargain!
![Black and white photograph of two men standing in front of a small white cabin, which was a property sales office. The price was $50 for a fifty-by-one-hundred-foot lot.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/laval-economie-diversifiee_economic-diversification/wp-content/uploads/sites/99/2019/09/C1_A3_02_17.jpg)
Property sales office in Laval, circa 1950
Reference: Société d’histoire et de généalogie de l’Île Jésus, C1/A3, 02.17
In the first half of the 20th century, Montrealers began to experience a housing crisis. With the goal of finding a home for their families, many of them moved to the suburbs, mainly because the land was less expensive than in Montreal.