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The Anchorage

Sackville lawyer and former builder Henry Powell built the Anchorage in 1892-1893. It is a house with several well-preserved elements of the Queen Anne architecture. Dr. James R. Calkin acquired the Anchorage in 1906; he practised medicine in Sackville for over forty-two years, as well as serving as house physician at Mount Allison University. After Calkin's death in 1933, the property passed to wealthy retired Mariner Captain Ronald V. Bennett. A regular visitor was his brother, Viscount Richard Bedford Bennett, Canadian Prime Minister from 1930 to 1935. At the time of his death, Capt. Bennett left his sizable estate to the University, including his Sackville house. Today, the Anchorage (the Bennett House) is Mount Allison's Centre for Canadian Studies.

This site is listed in the Canadian Register of Historic Places ; for fuller details see Anchorage

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