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'of Mr. Cameron, vho
p. for West Huron,
was appointed post -
"of Goderich, and from-
ade his home, at•,;the.
-manse
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e are five children: of
and Lena Galt who
life in that house: Mrs.
ilson and Mrs"G.P..
of Goderich; Mrs.
D. Headlee of
olis, Md.; Mrs. D.A.
11, Guelph and John•
ictoria.
Mex MacKid became
st settled minister of St.
w.'s church on nelson
in. I898 at a stipend. of
ands. He labored with
congregation for 18
resigning in 1866. He
n 1873. According to
raham, in The Tiger of
a West, he was "a tall,
oking man, of
ating manner; a
er, who had emigrated
is mother and sister,
having married his
ve as she lay dying."
n the struggling
gation had to sell the
to meet debts, the
ids bought it for $00
s, and 'so, as Mrs.
id wrote to a relative,
d not to move."
some years the house
nanted by H.I. Strang
late principal) and
,who were very fond of.
CALLED IT
HEARTSEASE'
ey called it Heart-,
" Mrs, F.H, Hewson,
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a former Jessie Strang,
writes from Niagara -on -the -
Lake, "WO father intended to
-buy it," Unlikg the MacKids,
however, `the Strangs did
have to move. In 1885, some
years after the Presbyterian
union, the "devisees in
trust, (Rev, Robert Ure and
John"Davison), sold the place
Ito . .Margaret Seager, wife of
Charles '.A. Seager, town
solicitor . and later _Crown
. Attorney The>Seagers sold to
the Gaits.
The manse was probably
begun in 1854, when the
CIergy 'Reserve Fund com-
missioners offered 150
pounds, conditional upon the
congregation of St. Andrew's
raising .50 pounds more,
which was done. Four lots in
all were obtained from the
Canada Company, and a loan
of 500 pounds was obtained
from the Trust & Loan Co.
Rev. Mr. MacKid agreed to
have theinterest paid out of
pew rents. To meet his
wishes, a large cellar was
built under the main part of
the house, and also a kitchen
at the back.
The brick used for the
manse, though long ago
painted red, is actually a kind
of orange color. On this point,
Mr. B. Napier Simpson, Jr.,
Willowdale architect, states:
"There are buildings around
that countryside, from
Goderich say as far as
London, all made of the grey
stock brick with the pink
flashing. This brick and its
coloring obviously was a
result of using local clay, and
so in the earliest of buildings
you would have to allow that
perhaps the bricks had been a
hand -made•. operation, in
which the'bricks were made
right in the land where the
'structure was to be erected.
These hand -made bricks are
usually smaller than a
standard brick."
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