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Project Completed:
June 2021
Completed in 2021, this multi-family building at 625 Jubilee Street in Duncan is a modern 6-plex with three single story, two bedroom apartments on the ground floor and three, two level three bedroom apartments on the top floor.
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December 2017
Phase 3, Unit 5 and 6 Groundbreaking ceremony took place on May 3, 2017. Justin, Bianca and their children Nevaeh and Bristol will be the future homeowners of this Habitat home.
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December 2017
Phase 3, Unit 5 and 6 Groundbreaking ceremony took place on May 3, 2017. Unit 5 is a two-bedroom disability-accessible house. Pam and her daughter Kaitlyn were selected as the future homeowners.
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August 2017
The Groundbreaking ceremony took place on November 10, 2016 for Phase 2, Unit 3 and 4, both single detached four-bedroom houses. Audrey and her three children, Averie, Anastasia and Angel were chosen as the future Habitat homeowners for Unit 4.
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August 2017
Soon after the first two Habitat homeowners moved into Unit 1 and 2 of the Meadow Hill development, work began on Phase 2, Unit 3 and 4, both four-bedroom houses. The Groundbreaking ceremony took place on November 10, 2016.
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September 2016
The future homeowners chosen for Phase 1, Unit 2, a four-bedroom house was James, Lisa and their four children, Austin, Reign, Oakley and Ava, the largest family selected to date in our build history.
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September 2016
On October 13, 2015 we had the Groundbreaking ceremony for Phase 1, Unit 1 and 2 of our Meadow Hill development on Extension Road.
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January 2014
Prideaux Street was the next duplex building project and would be constructed to meet the Built Green Gold Standard. In building the duplex, energy efficient framing methods and environmentally friendly building products would be used. Ground was broken in April 2013 with the help of VIU heavy equipment operator students.
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March 2013
This home was originally built by Habitat for Humanity Mid-Vancouver Island in 2009. In 2012, the homeowner got married and decided to ‘pay it forward’ by returning her home to Habitat Mid-Vancouver Island, so that another family could benefit from the Habitat homeownership program. Meagan, a single mother and her two children, were chosen as the future homeowners.
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December 2012
A duplex on Hecate Street in Nanaimo was our next building project. Jo-Anne, a single working mom, with her son and Kerry, Laura and their son were selected to be the future homeowners.
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December 2010
With the donation of a residential lot from the City of Parksville and $150,000 from an anonymous donor, our first build project on Humphrey Road in Parksville was off to a good start.
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October 2010
In 2009, Habitat for Humanity Mid-Vancouver Island bought back the Habitat home on Lambert Avenue that was originally built in 2003. Ryszard, Bozena and their two sons, Jaroslaw and Radoslaw were chosen as the future homeowners.
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December 2009
The next build project started very quickly in the Spring of 2009 with a duplex at Sunderland Avenue and Dufferin Crescent in Nanaimo, which would become three-bedroom homes for Holly and her two children and Elizabeth and her two children.
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March 2009
A single-detached three-bedroom house would be built on a lot donated by the Town of Ladysmith. Habitat for Humanity Mid-Vancouver Island partnered with a Leadership BC program called the “Legacy 7” team.
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September 2007
April 2007 was the Groundbreaking ceremony on Second Street for the construction of a single-detached three-bedroom house, with property that was donated by the City of Nanaimo.
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January 2007
In September 2006, the Groundbreaking ceremony was held at Montague Road in Nanaimo for a single-detached three-bedroom house. This property, as well as the adjacent property on Second Street, was donated by the City of Nanaimo.
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January 2006
In the Spring of 2005, after inheriting and moving into their grandmother’s house, the original Habitat homeowner on Rosehill Street sold her home back to Habitat for Humanity Mid-Vancouver Island.
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January 2005
The next house built was on a property on Wakesiah Avenue which was donated by its former owner, Ann Scott. An excavator and demolition crew tore down the condemned house to make room for the new single-detached three-bedroom home.
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February 2003
In September 2000, a Groundbreaking ceremony was held for the next project, a single-detached house on Lambert Avenue in Nanaimo. This project involved many volunteers dismantling an older fire-damaged two-bedroom house. Some of the material was reused and a new three-bedroom house would be built.
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May 2000
In late 1997, a property with a house was found on Rosehill Street in Nanaimo that would allow the construction of a duplex. After much fundraising efforts, the first Habitat for Humanity Mid-Vancouver Island property was purchased in May 1998 for $75,000.
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