Built some time between 1923 and 1928 — a Tudor-styled hotchpotch consisting of single (54) and a double (56-58.) Interestingly, when you look past their respective facades, the builds are simple, prosaic cubes.
Strathcona Avenue was named for Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, in office 1896–1914.
Curiously, the blocks between Strathcona and Patterson are only half as deep as the others in in the neighbourhood — many houses straddle their block completely. Those in our picture occupy what was originally the side yard of 405 Metcalfe, eventually subdivided to accommodate three homes without yards.
A detail from Goad 1912 shows the position of the side-yard (in blue) into which our row of houses would be shoe-horned."Elgin" on the right of the plan is now the Queen Elizabeth Driveway. Notice that the Strathcona/Patterson block is only half as deep as the Patterson/Monkland interval.
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