Agnes Maule Machar (1837-1927) was a Canadian author, born and educated in Kingston, Ontario. Her publications include: | Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837 - 1901) 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Kingston, Ontario, with a 2001 Canadian census population of 114,195 people, is a Canadian city, located in the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, where the lake runs into the St. ...
Ferncliff Cottage was built in the 1850's as a summer home for the highly-respected Canadian author AgnesMauleMachar.
A life-long resident of Kingston, Ontario, Miss Machar made the grand tour after her graduation from Queens' University, and on her return purchased a tract of land in the "Upper Isles" of the St. Lawrence River from a Gananoque farmer who found it too rocky to be useful.
Ferncliff Cottage was designed by Miss Machar herself to resemble the chalets she had seen in Europe, and she spent all her summers there.