This house was built by George McDonald who made his fortune while helping to build the railroad. He sold the house to Col. Roderick “Rory” R. McLennan, another railroad man, who in turn sold it to John McMartin. McMartin was also a railroad man but made his fortune when he bought some 80 acres of mining property on the Temiskaming railway near Haileybury, on which nickel, cobalt, silver, and arsenic were found. The mine was discovered by Alfred Larose of Hull, a blacksmith and associate with McMartin. McMartin purchased “Highland Manor” and it was home to his wife and five children (a sixth child died as an infant). Following John’s death in 1918 his wife Mary C. McDougald donated the home to the Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph to be run as the Nazareth orphanage. She returned to Montreal.