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Margaret McLennan Log House - Digital Archive
The Digital Archive and complementary Interactive Heritage Register Map are initiatives to provide historical information regarding properties included on the Township’s Heritage Register. The Digital Archive only includes properties which have consented to include their heritage property on this archive.
The lands we know today as the Township of Puslinch have been home to
Indigenous peoples since time immemorial. We acknowledge that we are on the
traditional territory of the Hatiwendaronk, as well as the treaty lands and traditional
territory of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee.
With increasing encroachment by non-Indigenous settlers in the Township of Puslinch, the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee could not continue their traditional lifestyle and settled in their villages along the Credit River and in the Grand River Valley. These Indigenous nations uphold their Treaty Rights within our jurisdiction.
Today, the Township of Puslinch remains home to Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island. We are grateful to have the opportunity to share and respect Mother Earth and are committed to building constructive and cooperative relationships with Indigenous nations.
Margaret McLennan Log House
Biographical Info
The Alexander McLennan House, or Margaret McLennan House, is a one-and-a-half storey log house built around 1850. It is much larger compared to other log houses, especially those constructed in the 1830s and 1840s, but it has the same basic architecture of two rooms with stairs to a loft above. It is one of the few original log houses remaining in Puslinch today.
Alexander McLennan is the original owner of the property. By the 1906 Atlas, the Smith family owned the farm.
The Margaret McLennan House is historically associated with Scottish immigration from Uist and the settlement of Puslinch.
Categories: Decade Built – 1850s, Decade Plaqued – 2000s, Historical Association – Scottish/Scotland, Materials – Wood, One-and-a-half storeys, One-storey, Traditional Log House Style