[2] Although the location has moved, it remains one of the oldest wood-framed houses in Canada.

[1] In 1800, the house was the birthplace of Sir Fenwick Williams, a decorated military leader from the Crimean War, British Commander-in-Chief, North America and first native-born Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

At his birth, he was rumoured to be the natural son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Julie de Saint-Laurent, a fact he never disputed.

[2][3] By 1846, the house was home to Joseph Norman, who served under the Duke of Wellington.

[4] His wife, Gregoria Ramona Antonia Reiez, who by her own account, was a mistress of the Duke of Wellington.