Bruce Hutchison House

392 Edward St., Prescott, ON

This house was built in 1835 by Thomas Fraser, the President of the Board of Police.  In the Rebellion of 1838, the house was used to billet the soldiers. 

Bruce Hutchison was born in 1901 in this house and as a little boy, he would often play in the sentry's box that was located on the property.  He later wrote about his birthplace, saying, " The house where I was born stood at the corner of Dibble and Edward Streets in Prescott, Ontario.  It was a huge, oblong chunk of gray stone, with walls two feet thick.  In winter it was warm, in summer cool.  Down in the dark basement there was a rich smell of apples in fat barrels and pickles and jam and the hugely timbered attic was littered with trunks full of ancient clothes, hooped skirts, top hats, useful for dressing up in on rainy days, and discarded bric-a-brac and the musty smell of age.....in the woodshed, standing there so long that it was hung with cobwebs, was a sentry box, just big enough for one man.  It had been used in the Rebellion of 1838.  At the time of the Fenian Raids, soldiers had been billeted in our house......."

Bruce Hutchison began his journalism career in 1925.  Later he was editor of the Victoria Daily Times and was first winner of the award for Distinguished Journalism in the Commonwealth as well as becoming a recipient of The Order of Canada.

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