Category: Shakesides
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CHEK News features Shakesides story
Dean Stoltz of CHEK News interviewed Craig Freeman of the Merville Community Association at the Merville Hall site. It was aired on Wednesday, Auguste 27 at 5:00pm, 6:00pm and 10:00pm. Read the interview and watch the video:
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The MCA plan to move Shakesides explained
The Merville Community Association’s plan to move Shakesides The MCA has twice approached Comox Council with a viable plan to move Shakesides from its current location in Mack Laing Park in Comox, to their Merville site where other heritage buildings are already in place. The MCA has also raised funds to pay for the move.…
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Shocking state of Shakesides home and Park
A visit to the Shakesides house location in Mack Laing Park on June 24 became a series of shocking photos of the state of the house, a result largely caused by the Town and a contractor removing window frames and some cedar shakes from the building. Lack of maintenance in the Park itself, especially in…
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Praise for an elegant solution
The Mack Laing Heritage Society (MLHS) is completely supportive of an elegant proposal by the Merville Community Association (MCA), to relocate Mack Laing’s Shakeside House from Mack Laing Park on the Comox waterfront to their property in Merville. Since the MCA announced their intention, they have received broad public support to place this historic house…
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More confusion for Shakesides
Comox alters design again- Comox Valley Record – Dec. 9, 2021. Anyone watching the Town of Comox council decisions for Shakesides must be bewildered. Council, which is also the Trustee for the Estate of Mack Laing has produced another design for a viewing platform. This time the sky is the limit for price; a whopping…
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Contrast between Mervill and Comox, regards saving old buildings
Nov 21, 2019 | Top Feature By George Le Masurier The Stolen Church now repaying history with new life in Merville Who says historic Comox Valley buildings from the early 1900s can’t be fully restored and recommissioned for future generations? Not Craig Freeman. Freeman sees other historic buildings around the Valley that are worthy of…