Revolutionary in Residence
Take a tour of Nellie McClung's restored homes in Manitou
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Two houses where McClung spent her formative years in Manitou have been returned to the town and restored, with their doors thrown open to the public Friday.
The houses were previously held privately on a farm in the area: a 1.5-storey yellow home with a clapboard exterior built in 1878, where McClung boarded for her first school teaching job; and a two-storey, mansard-roofed abode where newlyweds Nellie and Wesley lived from 1899 to 1911, and where she wrote her first novels.
They are now situated in plain view almost right along Highway 3 in Manitou, 35 kms west of Morden in southern Manitoba. Together with Manitou’s excellent log cabin museum next door, the three buildings line up in a row to present a spectacular bank of history.
