Mackie Lake House has its’ roots in the Coldstream Ranch which was subdivided in the early 1900’s and planted with apple and pear trees. Ronald Buchanan, a businessman from Montreal commissioned architect Robert Findlay to build the House in 1910 and subsequently sold it to Gordon Shakespeare Layton and his family in 1925. |
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Hugh and Grace Mackie, along with the Reverend Augustine Mackie had established the Vernon Preparatory School for boys in Coldstream in 1913. It was a boarding school entrenched in British custom and culture greatly appreciated by the English pioneers who came to the area. The Mackie Family became friends of the Layton’s, visiting the House often, and in 1945, they purchased the House. |
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Tours of the Lake House tell the story of the Mackie family and showcase the extraordinary and eclectic furnishings and collections preserved greatly by Patrick F. Mackie who had the auspicious foresight to bequeath the property to the Mackie Lake House Foundation. |
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Patrick (Paddy) Fylton Mackie (1922-1999) was the youngest
of five sons born to Grace and Hugh Mackie. During WWII he
served as a navigation officer on a corvette with the Royal
Canadian Navy in the North Atlantic. He was a student at UBC,
The Ontario College of Art and the Sorbonne in Paris. He
taught French at W.L.Seaton Secondary in Vernon for 25
years. He was an accomplished watercolorist, a potter, a fine
pianist and flautist, a naturalist and historian. In 1987 his
beautiful home was recognized as a Provincial Heritage Site.
Mackie Lake House showcases Paddy’s watercolors along with
numerous other talented works. |
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