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wwwA-HM" c 'f . 1-.. --' Z23: WW 11:: one summer: Home l .4 During the holiday season the is- mnds and the shores of the lakes and rivers become the homes or many Kingston families and it may be or interest to them to hear something or the men and women who carved lusting homes for themSelyes out of the virgin [01- est, whose (lays were full of toll, .who travelled in flat- bottomed batteaux. or Indian birch hark can- 093. where today, the sailing yacht spreads whlto wings to the breeze or the motor boat dashes along at thirty miles an hour. The emoom roads on which the descendants oi the men who blazed trails through the forest drive high-powered cars were less than a century ago. rough corduroy tracks on which the fam- uy' necessities where drawn by oxen or' strong horses. ' Fron'i stories told by our eldei's and from family 1 records, we have gleaned the lnior-. motion or the neighborhood in early d-ays which Will be puhlLshed timing the remaining weeks at the camping 9083011 ' About twelve miles to the west of KingstOn. at tho entrnnce to the gay or Quinta, lies Amherst Island.' which for many vears'hns been a. invorite haunt tor tamily parti'es from Kingston and ananee. Stelln. sheen and a, Methodist church, ti post 011169 and some comfortable homes. Emerald. the village at the western end of the island' hits of late years. had it's share or summer visitors. Amherst Island has a 1'0. mantle. history.» lt_.was called the isle of Tenti by the Indians and-'t'he story is tald n: the chief who came . to Sir John Johnson. saying he had dreamed Sir John 'had given tmn' the ; horse 118.!on Which had aroused vnis envy " ""It will be yours," said ISir John. "when my dream that the Isle of inn is mine, comes trne"~ The chief, whose desire to possess he beautiful steed "as great, gave the island to sir Johu. Later in .the good old days when a. fortune was lost or won on a. throw of the gdico, the' lovely wooded islandin Lake Ontario 'was wagerodiin a London club and Won by Lord Mount Cnshel. on. Irish nobleman, and 'by neice. it became the property of the his Robert perceval-liiaxweil,-. bi Finnebrosuo, Ireland. summer the prett-j little village opposite . stalls. Point. Where summer cottages nestle among the trees. has on An- his marriage to Lard Mount Cashel'l' .. .li io- 'i' w. H Moutray. his nephew, acts as the agent for. this 119.11, of the large estate "Fill'llam," the beauti- ful old home with glOllildS. ensued with tall trees, running to mu Witt- er's edge, is the home or Mr. and, Mrs Moutrny and their family and here true Irish hospitality is dispens- ed. The oldest port or the house was built in the_ early (orties and the story is told that the spacious rooms we're designed for s. ballroom tor Lord Mount Coshel to entertain in. when he came to this infirmity| corner of his estate He would have; had a many patty it he had come.- .tor in those days Amherst Island was the home 0! a number or retired army olllcers end 'their families and on the shore near Both were the Falrflelds, the Radciiites and. othorl families noted for keeping open house and giving the best oi;~ -re- treshmcnt to men and beam. '3'"; t -a __l_ I ".3'. Ono ot'tllese hardy pioneers con- ceited the idea. of building a house or clay, which stands till on a point just above Stella. It is a curious relic of the old days and is still ini good repair and used as a. dwelling house. For many years Amherst almond was the home or a dieting-i ulghod English artist, who come to; what 'was then considered the wilds: of Canada. to paint his menutll'ul; pictures in the solitude ot the new world, for (10111 the cities of men. Daniel Fowler's pictures may be seen in the National Gallery at 0t- tswn and in "The Grange," 'l'oron- ' to He received a diploma medal in' the Colonial and Indian Exhibition Iin 1886 and Wits elected a. chartered - member of the 0. It. C. A. n 1880. - "'The Cedars" where some of the. 1 members or his family still live. is a. charming home lull or objects of . art. Two dear old houses about a mile cost of Stella. are the pmpoflyi of the Pntlerson' and the Preston - families who are among the .oldest' settlers on the island. a-.. AUTHOK UN KNOWN l i