Macphail Homestead
A few minutes’ drive from the village is this handsome, white-shingled house, former home of Andrew Macphail. Macphail, born in this tiny village in 1864, gained renown as a doctor, pathologist, professor, writer, editor, and agricultural tinkerer. You will learn a lot about his exceptional mind and career by walking through the house, which includes exhibits on his experiments in tobacco farming, his time as a medic in World War I, and his work as a medical scholar, as well as period furniture. There’s also a lovely veranda tea room which offers a delicious dessert-fuelled respite. But the real allure is a stroll across the green lawn and through the 57 hectares (140 acres) of forest called the Macphail Woods, laced by several trails ★. It’s a project to bring back some of PEI’s lost native Acadian forest.
A few minutes’ drive from the village is this handsome, white-shingled house, former home of Andrew Macphail. Macphail, born in this tiny village in 1864, gained renown as a doctor, pathologist, professor, writer, editor, and agricultural tinkerer. You will learn a lot about his exceptional mind and career by walking through the house, which includes exhibits on his experiments in tobacco farming, his time as a medic in World War I, and his work as a medical scholar, as well as period furniture. There’s also a lovely veranda tea room which offers a delicious dessert-fuelled respite. But the real allure is a stroll across the green lawn and through the 57 hectares (140 acres) of forest called the Macphail Woods, laced by several trails ★. It’s a project to bring back some of PEI’s lost native Acadian forest.
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