[URBAN NOTE] Let our clotheslines be free!

[rfmcdpei]

Over at blogTO, Jerrold writes about his first-time experience with a clothesline.

In typical last minute style, I made a trip out to Home Depot to pick up a few things needed to put the final touches on the outdoor summer gazebo my brother and I built for my mother this morning (Happy Mother's Day!). I was pleasantly surprised to find that

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[mindstalk]

I read it as various cities or housing developments had bans, and the province is summarily squashing all such bans (for some types of housing), not that the province had ever banned clotheslines.

[robertprior]

That's correct. Usually it was the developer that put the ban in. I think in Kanata it was the city (which also, a couple of decades ago, approved only six colours of brown for painting garage doors).

[inuitmonster]

My parents have travelled through more of North America than me, and they often comment on how USAns and Canadians shun outdoor drying of clothes. Apparently outdoor clothes drying is the mark of an area of, you know, poor people.

[rfmcdpei]

Possibly explaining their prevalence on PEI!

[dsgood]

The US used to have covenants which prohibited selling to The Wrong People -- Colored People and, less often, Jews. Did Canada have any of that?

[detailbear]

Sadly, yes. You can find a partial time-line at http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/en/browseSubjects/freedomReligion.asp

[rfmcdpei]

Hey! Alberta was the only province that maintained an active eugenics program until, um, 1972. (Or was it 1973?)