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Houses that used to be storefronts. There's ways to look for them, depending on the history of your neighbourhood. Dylan Reid discusses some of them - applicable in Ottawa and Gatineau as in Toronto - over at the Spacing Toronto blog:

http://spacing.ca/toronto/?p=61839

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I've seen at least one church in the northern end of Ottawa's New Edinburgh district that got turned into someone's personal house. There are likely more.

If/when the Pandemic restrictions are sufficiently lifted for such an expedition, I hope to take my camera round several of the older neighbourhoods to see how many converted ex-storefronts I can get imagery of. This, along with my ongoing quest to work up street name histories and the requisite imagery for that project.