rose/dale, do you have an educated guess of the percentage of sears/aladdin/all kit homes that have not yet been torn down?

I have estimated that of pre-cut kit homes built by the major housing companies (Sears, Aladdin, MontWard, GVT, Leiws-Liberty, Sterling)
20% have been razed and another 40% altered significantly, resulting in approximately 40% of pre-cut homes that are still recognizable.

dale, thanks for the quick reply. the pop. of canada is and always has been approx. 10% that of the u.s. using the low end of the 50K to 100K homes that aladdin is thought to have sold world wide i will assume 5000 or 10% in canada.
further, using your estimate 5000X40%=2000 recognizable aladdins in canada. and now i must find them all.

wabash, what about the Hallidays and Readi-cuts up here in Canada??? Have you heard of these or has Rose or Dale, or am I dropping a little bomb here . I just found these catalogs, and I bet if I start looking I'll find a bunch of these between Hamilton and Toronto.

http://www.archive.org/details/betterhomes00halluoft

http://www.archive.org/details/redicuthomes00soveuoft

halliday is new to me but sovereign/redi-cut is aladdin. i am really happy for the resources you have provided though.
my focus is predominantly aladdin because i own one. some others i am aware of from CATALOGUE HOUSES EATONS' AND OTHERS by LES HENRY are:
B.C. MILLS
UNIVERSITY OF SASK. AND B.C. FOREST SERVICE
UNITED GRAIN GROWERS
WESTERN RETAIL LUMBERMAN'S ASSOC.(WRLA)
THE MANITOBA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
less' book deals primarily with western canada and i am not sure if he is even aware of halliday,at least he doesn't mention it in the book, it may have sold only in the east. i will ask him however as we have had some discussion regarding UGG. they had a mill about 250 miles west of here that burnt down in 1925. i have found pictures of it for him and even tried to get in to the site but it was too early in the year.

stonecat, thanks again, i have only ever searched for aladdin, not sovereign or redi-cut, that link came up right away. the flip book is a cool way to view it. U of SASK. has the 1919 catalogue but have not scanned it to the internet. all of the catalogues on the U of MICH site are U.S. except for the 1920.