This is the story of the amazingly prolific contractor who constructed many of the 19th century’s best-known buildings in the Dorchester-Sackville area [Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada] and beyond, always on time, always within budget and always of the highest quality workmanship. They included churches (St. Thomas in St. Joseph, for example), university buildings (Owens Art Gallery and Centennial Hall at Mount Allison University), train stations in Dorchester and Sackville, as well as many fine homes, including the one he built for himself in Dorchester (The Hedges). His achievement as a parent was no less enviable. He and his wife, Mary Jane Bulmer, raised two lawyers, a doctor, a minister and a music teacher.