cottage per night. Subsequent owners include Jack Fall, Arthur and Hazel Affleck; and Sam Nicholson of Toronto (operated as Dunedin

Cottages by Nicholson’s brother-in-law Les Gillespie). The present owner is Perry Hurst with only the lodge remaining on the property.

Towards the eastern end of the Bayshore Road, Maude (Ross) Shaw, wife of Louis Shaw, bought a 1/4-acre of land from Arthur Shaw in 1942, and a further fifth of an acre from Lloyd Shaw in 1948; she built a cottage beside the original “Sir Louis bungalo” (from the Sam Hill verse A Requiem), and operated a tourist business for a number

of years, until about 1965. She died in 1968 and the property is now owned by her nephew Ross Downe.

Also on the Bayshore Road, Wyllie and Marjorie Allan bought five successive parcels of land from John Arch MacLauchlan between 1939 and 1948, just to the west of Pilgrim Cabins. They built three cottages and a two-storey house, standing well back from the road, painted white with green trim, and looking very neat; Allandale Cottages were deservedly popular with tourists. After Dr. Allan died in 1980, the business was operated by his son J .W. Allan of Mississauga, Ontario,

who sold the property to Kent Lannan in 1983.

On the Gulf side, Percy J. Proude bought 21/2 acres of land in 1944 from Arthur Shaw and built a summer cottage; he purchased more land in 1949 from Lloyd Shaw, and a tourist rental business was started, with several cottages, and a small store, moved from the front of Horace Marshall’s property; this store was previously operated by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Paul. Jack Proude, Percy’s son, continued to run the cottage business after his father’s death- He also bought 8 acres of land from Lloyd Shaw in 1960, and this was divided into 36 cottage lots: Proude’s sub-division. Jack Proude was the first President of the Stanhope Beach Development Association (later the Brackley-Stanhope-Dalvay Tourist Association). Around 1970 some of the rental cottages were moved; the remaining ones, and the 21/2 acres on which they stood, were sold to Robert Simpson, who built cottages to replace those moved; in the fall of 1978 he sold the property with 5 cottages to Mrs. Kirsten Connor. She had two cottages moved from Rustico and five from “Ebb Tide” in Stanhope. This tourist operation is known as Kirsten’s Summerhouses, the Danish equivalent of “summer cottages”, and consists of twelve housekeeping cottages. Mrs. Connor, who is Danish, has had guests from many countries; one family from West Germany, having come each summer for three years, this time left their barbecue behind, ready for next year — they have evidently got the Stanhope “repeat-visit” habit. Most of Kirsten’s guests are families who like the peace and quiet of Stanhope; an exception was a lady from Ireland who wished for an arcade and amusement park right on the beach.

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