Barouche (four wheeled carriage). Standing on the left is Mr. Alexander MacDonald. Sitting on the lawn are his grand- daughters Helena and Laura.

Courtesy Parks Canada

in Lots 34 and 35, from Neil Higgins, Peter Campbell, J .D. MacAulay, and James Robison. This land was surveyed and mapped on September 25, 1895 by W. J. Cundall, and the MacDonalds arranged with George Longworth to have a house built by Rhodes and Currie of Amherst, starting in April of 1896 for occupancy in July. Island materials were used, and a number of local workmen helped in the three months’ construction; John MacLennan Ross of Stanhope was foreman of carpenters; the huge fireplace of Island sandstone was built by Samuel Arbing of Millcove, who also built the big fireplace at Leitch’s Glencorse Hotel. An additional wing was built in 1899 with M.F. Schurman as contractor.

The MacDonalds filled the house with beautiful furniture and obj ets d’art from all over the world, and descended on it each summer with a retinue of servants: two cooks, two housemaids, two butlers, one of whom was Thomas McCabe of Stanhope, two laundresses, their coachman Thomas Horgan, a gardener, and two men to look after the stables and their horses, which also travelled from Ohio each season. Local help was also hired as needed. The house was filled with guests and the MacDonalds entertained a great deal, giving parties and balls, with musicians hired from Charlottetown. Every summer just before leaving they gave a dance for their staff and the local

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