Garage Door Repair in McLaughlin, Oshawa

The neighbourhood carries the name that built the city. Robert McLaughlin founded his carriage company in 1876; General Motors of Canada was created out of it in 1918 with Sam McLaughlin as president; the plant expanded until it covered several blocks. McLaughlin sits on Oshawa's western boundary and its housing arrived in three distinct waves — 33 per cent in 1960 or before, 34 per cent from 1961 to 1980, and 26 per cent through the 1980s, with 5 per cent in the 1990s and effectively nothing since. Single-detached houses account for 66 per cent of dwellings, with low-rise apartments at 13 per cent and row housing at 6 per cent.

What that means on the ground is documented street by street: single-detached houses from the 1950s and 1960s, bungalow-style, alongside some older two-storey houses dating from roughly the 1930s, townhome complexes, and a subdivision in the southwest off Thornton Road from around the 1980s. Four garage generations within one neighbourhood name. A 1930s house is likely to have a detached structure at the rear or no garage at all. A 1950s bungalow tends to have an attached single or a carport that was later enclosed. The 1980s subdivision streets are the first here to carry a genuine double-width opening as standard.