represented the area as an MP and a
senator. He built this fine house in 1872. The exterior walls are three feet thick and it has a grand staircase made of walnut. The outhouse was a two-holer but they were back-to-back, with one side for the ladies and the other for the gentlemen. The house was lit and
History ::
Lachlan McCallum was a dour Scotsman who was born in Tiree in the Hebrides in 1823. His father died when he was young and he quickly had to learn how to earn money, first as a fisherman, then as a carpenter. In the 1840s, the Scottish lairds began the infamous clearings, in which they cast the tenant farmers off the land so that they could raise sheep. McCallum immigrated to Canada and found work as a contractor on the Welland Canal. The Feeder Canal brought him to Broad Creek in 1855 and here he bought land and started various businesses, including a store, cheese factory, a hotel, several flour mills and a shipbuilding business. He
heated by a gas pump that McCallum had drilled and connected to the house from a well in his front yard. The house is still heated this way. Unfortunately, although McCallum had several children, none of them married, and so, when the last died, the house was sold to the Snively family who recently sold it and is now called Bliss Haven
