Sir Andrew Macphail Homestead Lunch & Lecture Series: “The Bygone Days … and Food!”

The Sir Andrew Macphail Homestead’s Lunch & Lecture Series returns this summer, with events taking place on Sundays at 1 pm throughout July and August. Each event begins with a meal followed by a guest speaker. Built in 1856 as a farmhouse, the Homestead was purchased by the Macphail family in 1864, the same year Sir Andrew Macphail was born.

Today, it operates as a community museum celebrating the life and legacy of the renowned doctor, scholar, writer, and editor. In addition to his medical career, Macphail wrote for newspapers, magazines, and journals, published ten books, and was knighted after the First World War for his contributions to military field medicine and literature. The Lunch & Lecture Series is a fundraiser for the Macphail Foundation.

The series begins on July 5 with “The Bygone Days … and Food!” presented by Dutch Thompson and Jill Birtwistle. The afternoon includes bannock, pork fruitcake and creameaters and features stories about hard-working cooks in lumber camps and lobster factories, plus the woman who drove a thousand miles to repay her father’s general store food bill… 70 years later.

To register, email macphailhomestead@gmail.com or call 902-651-2789. The venue is wheelchair accessible.