Sir Andrew Macphail Foundation Orwell, Prince Edward Island Canada C0A 2E0 (902) 651-2789

Our purpose is to honour and acknowledge the contribution of Sir Andrew Macphail to our heritage. Our objectives are: To secure, maintain and manage the property known as the Macphail property so as to reflect the significance of the life of Sir Andrew Macphail. To promote public appreciation of Sir Andrew and the property. To develop educational and interpretive activities that reflect John Andrew Macphail's life, interests and times. To support the continued existence of the Macphail property as defined by the former Macphail provincial park boundaries. To complement the objectives of Orwell Corner Historic Village. To provide an organization through which people interested in and supportive of our purpose and objectives can participate.

The Macphail Homestead was the home of one of P.E.I.'s most famous writers, physicians, and scholars, Sir Andrew Macphail. His father, William M(a)cphail was a schoolmaster, born in Nairn, Inverness, Scotland in 1830. The 2 year old William and his parents William Macphail and Mary MacPherson departed Fort William, Scotland in 1832, and after a shipwreck, settled in River John, Cape Breton. In 1844, they came to P.E.I. William, at 28 years of age, married Catherine Moore Smith on Newton, PEI. By this time William was himself a Schoolmaster, and to move closer to his work they then bought the 100 acre Fletcher farm in Orwell, and moved in on May 24th, 1864.

The Sir Andrew Macphail Homestead