Talk:Notman House
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It stood on a substantial plot of land surrounded by fields with Elm and Maple trees, purchased from the subdivided estate of John Clarke (1781-1852), a retired fur-trader of the North West Company. George Mountain described the vicinity in 1831 as "picturesque and romantic in its solitude and silence, and serene in its far views over the countryside and the river".[1]
because the location described is the corner of Sherbrooke & Clarke Avenue, Westmount, about 3.5 km southwest of the Notman house. Edgar Andrew Collard often mixes subjects in the same article. His column of 16 March 1985 mentions Sherbrooke Street, certain relations of William Notman, and the corner of Sherbrooke & Saint-Laurent Boulevard (very close to the Notman House), but the cited text is actually talking about something rather different.
Clark Street beside the Notman house – which was not pushed through from Milton to Sherbrooke until the 1950s – is named for John Clark (1767-1827), a butcher and important landowner born in Durham, England, grandfather of Stanley Clark Bagg.