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Sam Martin and his family lived temporarily on the Parry-Evans farm in 1907.

This house is situated at 7649 - 208 Street in Willoughby. The property was purchased by Mr. Thomas Bird Parry-Evans from Robert Allen Oakes in 1895. The house was built in 1896 by Thomas Parry-Evans and a Mr. Lawrence, a builder from Surrey. An addition was built in the back of the house before 1907. Mr. Parry-Evans and his wife planted an orchard of 60 trees, a few of which still remain on the property. In later yeas, the Parry-Evans farm, which originally consisted of 160 acres, focused on the production of chickens and eggs. A chicken house remained on the property (although is likely gone today-2020). After Mr. Parry-Evans died in 1922 in an accident at Galbraith's Sawmill, the property was left to his wife and further passed on to their daughter, Myrtle McKenna (nee Parry-Evans).