Built Heritage Resource Guide

"For everyone in this most charming of towns has a pretty residence and grounds. Of course the place possesses a large wealthy class who would naturally have tastefully appointed homes with appropriate surroundings.

But beyond these, among those more moderately circumstanced there is the same prevailing desire to have a home upon which they can look with pleasure."

Progress, St. John, NB, Saturday, October 14, 1893, p. 9 [MG 100, vol. 250, #24a]

Reference: Edith Read Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1996-78 no. 77