Ministers Island
Ministers Island is accessible only at low tide when a strip of ocean bottom is exposed enough to drive across. In the late 1800s William van Horne, having become enormously rich building the Canadian Pacific Railway, bought most of the island and set up a "summer estate". He bred prize-winning Clydesdales who were housed in a really huge barn. There was also the usual collection of farm animals. Housing was provided for resident workers. The house/home has 50 rooms, split half and half between the family's living quarters and the supporting crew of servants. The whole shebang has the aura of a boronial fiefdom.
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