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Future
I think that houses will always useful and will always be built. Without houses people would have nowhere to live and would have no shelter. In the future, I think there will be many more changes in houses. For example, instead of having to get up to switch off the lights or adjusting the heat, I think that there could be some kind of remote or watch that could control all of this. There could also be new materials to build houses and new types of houses in the future. I think houses are something that will keep changing after a few years because new ideas and materials are always being developed.

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2001-present
The style and sizes of houses has changed a lot now. There are larger lots and larger houses. There is more space in houses now and a lot of houses have rooms such as study room, computer room, family room, laundry room, an office, a loft and some have spice kitchens. There are also many different types of house styles. For example, mansions, farmhouses, chalets, bungalows and many more. A modern house has a place to cook food, a place to eat, places to sleep and a place to wash. Now there are separate rooms to do all of that. Modern houses are often made of "pre-fabricated" parts that are partly built in a factory, and are easy to put together at the site of the building. Many houses now are made with steel frames put together with rivets and bolts. Walls and roofs can be made of boards that combine fiber with cement. These boards are thin, light in weight to transport, easy to put on the frame, and much cheaper than bricks or timber. A similar material can be made into roof tiles. Metal roofing can be rolled into thin sheets, and made in many different
colors, with matching gutters and downpipes. I think in the future houses will change even more.

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Tenements and apartment buildings were also made in cities during the 19th century. Around 1885-1900 Tenements were built as minimum-standard living accommodation for low-wage earners. Apartment buildings were more comfortable and were designed as rental flats for the middle-income group. Tenements and apartment were very similar. An apartment building has many apartments in it. Sometimes an apartment will only be one small room, and tenants will have to share other rooms like the bathroom and kitchen. Other times, tenants will only share an entrance hallway with doors that go to many apartments which is similar to how a tenement is. In tenements and apartment you also have to pay the landlord the rent money for staying in the building, every month.

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In the 20th century (1901-2000) the wealthy people moved to the outskirts of cities. Later on other people followed. People wanted to live in houses that had large lots. They wanted to escape crime, overcrowding and noise. Single-family homes were usually 2-storey and the style was different than it was in the 19th century. The structure of houses was also different. There were metal and wooden windows, usage of brick, ornamental windows and arches. In the inside there were more bedrooms and more living space. Houses had become more comfortable. The size of the house depended on the wealth of the owner. If the owner was rich then the house would be big and luxurious. If the owner wasn't too rich then the house would be simple and a normal size. Many different types of materials for making houses have been developed in the 20th century.

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In the 19th century (1801-1900) there were more changes in houses. The style had changed. Since few households had servants, Canadian townhouse owners placed their kitchen on the first floor, rather than in the basement. The living room, the entrance hall and stair hall occupied the front end of the house, and the dining room, kitchen the rear. The living and dining rooms were often separated from each other by an archway, with or without attached sliding doors. The bedrooms were located on the upper floors, with the master bedroom facing the street and the other rooms on the opposite side. The width and size of the townhouse depended on the wealth of the owner.

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The semi-nomadic peoples of the Maritimes, Quebec, and Northern Ontario generally lived in wigwams. Wigwams were invented around the 1400ths. These houses were wood framed structures, covered with an outer layer of bark, reeds, or woven mats. They were usually in a cone shape or sometimes a dome. These people would change their location every few weeks or months. They would take the outer layer of the wigwam with them and leave the wood frame in place. The outer layer and wood frame could be reused.

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In the 18th century (1701-1800) rural dwellings were made in Quebec. Stone construction was rare and wood was the dominant building material in the villages of Quebec. In the Quebec area, the laterally added square living space accounted for the typical shallow long shape of stone houses. Since the populating of the Montreal region came later, less land was available there and because of that smaller houses were more common there.

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Also during the 1600ths, there were urban houses in Quebec. They had double chimneys and the roof structure was covered with sheet metal or tin tiles. Many of the early urban houses were attractive structures with well-built windows and doors. The houses had very few ornaments and were very simple.

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With the European settlement of the St Lawrence Valley in the 17th century, a new type of house form was introduced to Canada. The early French Canadian settlers created a building similar to the French architectural styles, but they used Canadian building materials. Initially the farmhouses of the habitants were small, broad buildings constructed of wooden planks with a high-pitched roof. They were rectangular and usually divided into two rooms that were not the same size, with a large chimney on a side wall. Later on many changes were brought to these houses. For example, floor levels were raised, eaves were made wider and fireplaces were added inside.

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More substantial dwellings were built by the coastal Indians of British Columbia in around 1550-1600. Living in a temperate climate, with many different supplies of good building materials, the coastal Indians built large communal houses, each inhabited by a number of families. These impressive structures were low-pitched rectangular structures built of massive cedar posts and beams. Their interior arrangement, two facing rows of sleeping platforms separated by a central corridor, was similar to the buildings of the eastern woodlands. Hearths were tended in the center of the corridor, with the smoke escaping through cracks which were made when the roof planks were pushed aside by parts of a pole.

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The most fascinating dwelling was the igloo, a shelter built from snow and ice. Igloos were invented in the early 1500s. The Inuit people of Northern Canada built them. They built them to stay warm and dry during the winter. They were also used in winter as temporary shelters by hunters when they were away from their regular homes. When the igloos would begin to melt in the summer, they were abandoned and replaced by seal-skin tent called tupiq, a portable dwelling, consisting of a framework of poles covered with seal skins. Igloos were a very important type of shelter for the Inuit.

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The first dwellings (a house, apartment, or other place of residence) were constructed by early humans to shelter themselves during hunting and gathering journeys about 30,000 years ago. Evidence suggests that these dwellings were tent-like structures. The earliest dwellings in Canada were built and inhabited by Indians and Inuit. They were simple and were different compared to the normal lifestyle and habitat that they had. They were also closer with nature than most houses are today. The simplest dwellings were built by food gatherers and hunters.