DR. GEORGE DEWAR HOUSE Hopeton Road

Dr. George Ford Dewar come to Southport as a young man and boarded in the village, practicing there and in the surrounding country, visiting his patients in all kinds of weather and at all hours. At night he would say “Hang a lantern at the gate.” One time he was caught out in a bad snowstorm and unhitched his horse and took shelter in his overturned sleigh. He called daily to see one patient with typhoid fever for 21 days and his bill was 21 dollars.

In 1903 he built a home and office (in the above picture). His house had a windmill which pumped water into the house. Some years later Dr. Dewar moved to Charlottetown and continued his practice from there, renting his house to Henry Smallwood and then to Sandy Kennedy.

In 1917 Dr. Dewar sold this house to Leonard and Mrs. Wood and their widowed daughter Mary, who was married to Joseph Bragg, still lives there.

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