Shakesides – 1949 -2025(?)
(Comox Council has voted to demolish the house and replace it with a viewing platform)
Side of Shakesides showing removal of window frames, done June 23, 2025
Shakesides from very overgrown beach path, June 24, 2025
Shakesides path side, showing window art from 2016 after Town’s removal of window frames, June 23, 2025
Sorry state of ToC ‘Heritage’ Mack Laing signboard behind Shakesides,June 24, 2025
Front of Shakesides from wood walkway, overgrown as never before, June 24, 2025
Shakesides showing removal of window frames and shakes, June 24, 2025
Banner behind Shakesides,2018
Skunk cabbage in MLHS restored marsh besides Shakesides
Fawn lily behind Shakesides in 2017, planted by MLHS
Town of Comox truck, day they turned ‘window treatments’ to back
MLHS removing invasive yellow flag iris in front of Shakesides
MLHS invasives cleanup team, 2020
Laing signing his Allan Brooks bio in Comox, 1979
Laing in 1981, the year before his death.
Sign quoting Laing’s legally expressed wishes regarding Shakesides
‘Mack’ enjoying porch after ‘window treatments’ 2016
Sign by MLHS on security fence behind Shakesides
John Duncan receives Shakesides t-shirt, 2016
Nut catkins formed heart beside Shakesides
School bus which delivered students to enjoy Mack Laing Park, 2018
Attic roof of Shakesides, showing re-use of lumber used to pour concrete foundation
January 2017
Shakesides May 2018
Shakesides from shore, March 2017
MLHS invasives pile, March 2016
Shakesides front after MKLHS yard cleanup, November 2015
Shakesides front before cleanup, August 2015
Shakesides in winter, February 2017
Before and After MLHS cleanup 2015
Shakesides back after MLHS cleanup, Nov 2015
MLHS invasives removal Oct 2015
Kayak found in bush beside Shakesides during MLHS cleanup, Nov. 2015
Shakesides in snow Feb 2017
Enviro Cleanup Feb 2016
MLHS removing invasive blackberry, Oct 2015
From front with window art, June 2016
November 2015
Porch after volunteers repaint to remove graffiti, June 2017
Shakesides summer 2017
Roof of Shakesides attic, showing lumber used for concrete forms
Side window art July 2016
West side window art, July 2016
Town reverses board artwork 2 days after it was done.
Shakesides in February 2016
Window board art over front porch, July 2016
Shakesides back window, art on board, Jul.y 2016
Shakesides back art on boarded windows, July 2016
Break-in June 2019
Shakesides enviro cleanup Feb 2016
Shakesides newly boarded up October 2015
Shakesides back August 2015
Shakesides May 2015
Shakesides 1983, at time of rental to first tenant after Laing’s death
Shakesides in 1950
Laing in Shakesides
Outhouse wooden lock, made by Mack Laing
Laing at Shakesides 1981
Shakesides porch driftwood bench made by HML,late 1970s. Stolen in August 2015.
Outhouse for Shakesides, 2005 – remove by Parks Dept.
Laing cleaning his gun in Shakesides.
MLHS Shakesides cotton bag
Tarp being places on roof to prevent leaks
Comox park donated by Mack Laing, where Shakesides is located
Memorial cairn in Mack Laing Park. Erected 1983. Laing artifacts are buried under it.
Allan Brooks biography written by Laing in Shakesides, 1979, BC Museum publication
Shakesides 2013, inhabited by tenant
Shakesides, built by Laing in 1950, as it looked in 1982
Shakesides 1985, with first tenant playing croquet in front of retaining wall
MLHS display at garage sale, June 2018
MLHS display July 31, 2016
MLHS Barred Owl poster, Mack Laing Park
‘Mack’ on bench in front of Shakesides, 2016
Shakesides – July 29 2015
Spook in the attic window?
Days before demolition of Shakesides.
Laing with 52 lb tyee salmon, 1955