CNHS - "WOODSIDE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE" - Kitchener - Ontario
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Jake39
N 43° 27.871 W 080° 28.831
17T E 542021 N 4812531
Woodside National Historic Park is located in Kitchener between Lancaster St. and the Expressway on a 17 acre site.
Waymark Code: WMEVW
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 06/14/2006
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WOODSIDE NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK,
Woodside, the boyhood home of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's 10th prime minister, was built in 1853 on spacious tree-covered grounds in Kitchener. The recollections of Mackenzie King guided Parks Canada's restoration of Woodside to the period of the early 1890s when the King family lived here. It became a National Historic Park in 1954.
Woodside was leased to John King, a lawyer of means, from 1886 to 1893. His wife, Isabel, was the daughter of William Lyon Mackenzie, leader of the abortive Rebellion of 1837 in Upper Canada (Ontario). The Kings' four children, the second of whom was William (Willie), held fond memories of the time they lived at Woodside, although the family never owned the property. Mackenzie King recalled years later that the years spent in this rambling mid-Victorian house "left the most abiding of all impressions" on him.
Guides in period costume interpret the historic home and its furnishings, and a modern exhibit illustrates the story of Mackenzie King. Woodside National Historic Park is open year-round.
National link to
Woodside
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