1 % storeys with a centred doorway and transom down and a centred dormer above. The basic plan was almost square with an addition on the side.

‘The Beck Family homestead, showing 3 cf the 4 houses, drawn by Robert C. Tuck and published in The Island Magazine in 1980.

Here is an updated version of the description that ran with this sketch. In 1980 Windsor Beck was living in this house built by his grandfather, William Beck. It is the fourth dwelling built on the farm settled by Vere Beck in 1813. The first house, a log cabin built close to the shore, has disappeared, but houses two and three survive as outbuildings on the property. Number two is the structure on the right with a chimney while number three stands behind the kitchen of number four.

It served the purpose well. It was occupied by members of the Beck family for more than 100 years. The last occupant, Windsor Beck, left and moved to a nursing home in Montague in the 1980s. It was vacant for a number of years and then was bought by Lorin Brehaut, Jr. (1.4.4,7,3,2.1.) in 1998 and moved a short distance up the road where it was attached to another historic home built by the Brehaut family in the 1850s. Lorin, an architect, then renovated the two properties retaining and restoring many of the original features.

The property is now designated as a heritage home and is regis- tered as such with the Canadian government.

Vere spent the last eight years of his life in the new house - the

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