Re: sinclair Inn

["Neil Sinclair/Peggy Rintoul" <rinsin@globalserve.net>]

I wanted to add a bit to the impressions of the Nova Scotia Sinclair Inn.
When I visited this site in 1997 my family of Sinclairs were treated as
honoured visitors and given a bit of the inside tour. The Inn is found in
Annapolis in the South Western part of the Province in a villiage that is
being largely restored. Of special interest is that the Inn was not finished
but under construction so that one could see the construction and design
clearly. Of more general and universal interest was the Masonic ties in
early Nova Scotia. Definitely worth a visit. As cousin Rory suggests it is
known on the tourist circles in Nova Scotia. Neil Toronto PEI Argyll
-----Original Message-----
From: Rory Sinclair <rory.sinclair@accglobal.net>
To: sinclair@jump.net <sinclair@jump.net>
Date: 20 May, 1999 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: sinclair in


>
>Hi Gerald:
>the Sinclair Inn you mention is well  known to us in Clan Sinclair
(Canada).
>It was written up in  Roslin O' Roslin, our quarterly newlsletter in  the
>Winter 1997 issue.  It is an important "document" in the history of
building
>in Canada --- In the 1780's the tavern keeper, Frederick Sinclair created
>the Inn by combining two existing structures.  One of them was originally
>owned by William Skene, a surgeon from Boston who was also a Mason.  His
>house and hence the Sinclair Inn, is pointed out as the meeting place of
the
>first Masonic Lodge in what is now Canada.  Both houses were frame
>construction and the walls of one of them was filled with wattle and daub,
>the insulation material of choice in Acadia and New England in the 17th and
>19th Centuries.  Sinclair Attempted to give this union certain Georgian
>features of symetry and classical detail.  It was restored in 1982 and the
>buildilng stands as a rich composite of materials techniques and styles
>spanning three centuries.   It is a designated National Historic Site.
>Yours Aye,                       Rory
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gerard Souliere <gsoulier@home.com>
>To: sinclair@zilker.net <sinclair@zilker.net>
>Date: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 4:19 PM
>Subject: sinclair in
>
>
>>My daughter lives in n.s. canada, she sent me a photo of sinclair in she
>>founds there somebody that knows the place,the owner was frederick
>>sinclair that diedJan.23,1801.
>>
>>jerry
>>
>
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