The McMyn\/Masson House, located just off Harris Road at 19175 122nd Avenue, was moved to the site in the fall of 1995 when the home's original location was being developed as a subdivision. This early B.C. Mills prefabricated structure is now owned by the City and houses a restaurant.<\/p>\r\n
A happier story is told about the little farm house from what was the McMyn Farm. In 1905 John McMyn arrived in Pitt Meadows along with his brother William. Together they purchased, from Wellington Jeffers Harris, land that extended from the CPR tracks through the area that is now the Meadows Garden Golf Course. Much of the land is now the Somerset subdivision, and it is in this area that John McMyn chose to build his family’s hone in 1906, and where he lived until 1920 when ill health forced him to sell and move on. In 1931 the Masson family purchased the property and they and their son Joe and his wife lived there for over 60 years.
In 1989, the year both she and the Municipality turned 75 years old, Hazel Anderson (nee: Park) reminisced about what her great uncle’s property was like: “ .. where Somerset is, that was my mother’s uncle had that. That was his farm. And there was a beautiful bush there, and there was a path heading down through it. A trail where they took their cows and things down to the field. They had them all in the fields below. They didn’t have too much up here on the highlands at the time, and I had my cousin she was about the same age [as us]. There three of us used to play in that bush and it was lovely in there. Big old maples you know that we could swing on. Somebody bought it [and] Before there were ever houses they cut a lot of it.
The McMyn Masson house is an early example of a B.C. Mills prefabricated home, and is one of a few remaining examples of this type of building in the area. The community Church is yet another example of these structures which were manufactured by the B.C. Mills Timber and Trading Company between 1904 and 1910 and were sold throughout western Canada.
In 1995 the 90 year old farmhouse was at risk of demolition as the developer of the Somerset subdivision was ready to improve the land it stood on. While the District and the developer had agreed the house needed to be preserved by moving it to a location in Hoffmann Park, they could not agree on who should be responsible for the cost of such a move. In the end the District of Pitt Meadows picked up the cost and the house was moved late one night in the autumn of that year. Since 1996 the District had rented the building out as a restaurant, and they added it to the community’s heritage register in 2006.<\/p>","SEO_LINK":"mcmyn-house","VIDEO_LINK":"","SOUNDCLOUD_LINK":"","IMG1":"1534959471_main_1mcmyn-house.jpg","IMG2":"1534959472_main_2mcmyn-house.jpg","IMG3":"1534959473_main_3mcmyn-house.jpg","IMG4":"1534959476_main_4mcmyn-house.jpg","IMG5":"","IMG6":"","IMG7":"","IMG1_THUMB":"","IMG2_THUMB":"","IMG3_THUMB":"","IMG4_THUMB":"","IMG5_THUMB":"","IMG6_THUMB":"","IMG7_THUMB":""}X
McMyn House
The McMyn/Masson House, located just off Harris Road at 19175 122nd Avenue, was moved to the site in the fall of 1995 when the home's original location was being developed as a subdivision. This early B.C. Mills prefabricated structure is now owned by the City and houses a restaurant.
A happier story is told about the little farm house from what was the McMyn Farm. In 1905 John McMyn arrived in Pitt Meadows along with his brother William. Together they purchased, from Wellington Jeffers Harris, land that extended from the CPR tracks through the area that is now the Meadows Garden Golf Course. Much of the land is now the Somerset subdivision, and it is in this area that John McMyn chose to build his family’s hone in 1906, and where he lived until 1920 when ill health forced him to sell and move on. In 1931 the Masson family purchased the property and they and their son Joe and his wife lived there for over 60 years.
In 1989, the year both she and the Municipality turned 75 years old, Hazel Anderson (nee: Park) reminisced about what her great uncle’s property was like: “ .. where Somerset is, that was my mother’s uncle had that. That was his farm. And there was a beautiful bush there, and there was a path heading down through it. A trail where they took their cows and things down to the field. They had them all in the fields below. They didn’t have too much up here on the highlands at the time, and I had my cousin she was about the same age [as us]. There three of us used to play in that bush and it was lovely in there. Big old maples you know that we could swing on. Somebody bought it [and] Before there were ever houses they cut a lot of it.
The McMyn Masson house is an early example of a B.C. Mills prefabricated home, and is one of a few remaining examples of this type of building in the area. The community Church is yet another example of these structures which were manufactured by the B.C. Mills Timber and Trading Company between 1904 and 1910 and were sold throughout western Canada.
In 1995 the 90 year old farmhouse was at risk of demolition as the developer of the Somerset subdivision was ready to improve the land it stood on. While the District and the developer had agreed the house needed to be preserved by moving it to a location in Hoffmann Park, they could not agree on who should be responsible for the cost of such a move. In the end the District of Pitt Meadows picked up the cost and the house was moved late one night in the autumn of that year. Since 1996 the District had rented the building out as a restaurant, and they added it to the community’s heritage register in 2006.
Details:
Latitude: 49.2245713098135
Longitude: -122.69070488946
Direct Link: https://www.pittmeadowsmuseum.com/locations/mcmyn-house
