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"A Home for All" ~ Mid-Century: 1840s - 1850s Idylbrook at 756 Mount Pleasant Road., c2000. The house was built into the side of the hill on Mount Pleasant Creek, possibly by Andrew Eadie who obtained the Crown Deed for the property in 1837. His brother Thomas lived here c1850 and then his brother William took it over c1853. The basement floor is stone, the others are stucco over vertical siding. The front verandah is a later replacement of the original. because "doubtless there was a more promising future for young men in America than in the old land." George and Catherine joined the local United Presbyterian congregation and went on to have seven children, George Jr., Peter, John, Eliza, Robert, Alexander and Margaret, doing their part for the development in the village. They welcomed their first born, George Jr. into the community in 1844. After an excellent preparatory education in Mount Pleasant, George went on to found Manitoba College in 1871 and serve as a noted historian, educator, and theologian of Knox Presbyterian Church. George formed part of the vanguard of Ontarians moving the pioneering frontier into the Canadian west. Family reunification also helped populate Mount Pleasant. The same ship from Scotland that carried the Bryce newly-weds to the New World also transported Andrew Eadie's brothers Robert and William to their brother's adopted home. This enlarged Eadie circle also helped bolster the Scottish flavour in the village. By 1850 Thomas was living in a fine stone and stucco house, later called Idylbrook, built into the side of Rainbow Hill beside the creek across the road from the Haight Mill. Later he sold the house to William when William married Lucy Burtch.