“WE LOVE THE country, we love Prince Edward County, let’s look for a place there.’ ” Frank Park and his wife, Tracey, were first charmed by the bucolic slice of eastern Ontario when they visited in the early 1990s, for years attending an annual summer party at a friend’s farmhouse in Bloomfield, Ont. Nearly two decades later, the partying stopped, but Frank and Tracey were hooked on cottaging in The County.
As an architect, Frank was keen on buying a vacant plot rather than an already constructed cottage. “We wanted a blank slate; to start fresh,” he says. After two years of searching (with their kids Ethan and Jade in tow, then nine and seven, respectively) they purchased an unserviced, two-acre property in North Marysburgh, Ont., in 2015. “We didn’t…
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Cottage Life (Digital) - 1 Issue, September/October 2024