Ernest Buckler: A Remarkable Nova Scotia Novelist

Claude Bissell described his first impression of the Buckler house in Ernest Buckler Remembered, pages 6-7:

''The house was close to the highway and yet seemed to ignore it, secure in the knowledge that it had existed long before the highway had been put through. A big umbrageous chestnut tree at the front of the house sealed its privacy ... But we instinctively decided that, for a formal first visit, we should use the front door, set between two tall, twelve-paned windows, below the peak of the gable that broke the solid square of the house.''

Reference: Ernest Buckler  Nova Scotia Archives MG 1, volume 2511