Pheasant Run, the Mackey property, Kidston’s, Kinlock’s, Palfrey’s and Viel’s installed both the piping and the first water supply into the Kidston road area of Coldstream. The change room at the beach was the original orchard pump house. VID (Vernon Irrigation District) later developed irrigation water supply from the Dee Lake chain and our property became supplied from that source at that time. The irrigation water was switched from VID (very cheap) to municipal supply (expensive) in June of 2001.

1. The one for the living room fireplace is directly below it in the basemant wall. 
2. The cleanout for the Den fireplace is behind the furnace in the basement.  Both should be cleaned annually.

Kitchen Floor: is "Battleship" Linolium installed in the early 60's.

Living Room, Den and Master Bedroom hardwoods.
A. T. Howe purchased the property in the early 1900's and built the living room and den addition using Maple, Walnut and Oak from his brother's tree farm in Ontario.You will note that the Dining room does not have hardwood floors. That is because it went into the hired hand's bunk house. 

Hazards
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Prior to the development of the Coldstream Municipal dump (east side of Middleton Mt. (Now closed) the original residents (Glossip, Howe) dumped household garbage over the bank on the NW corner of the property overlooking the lake, close to the Mackie Beach area,  above the walking path. Frost heaves bring up broken glass and rusted tins. A few minutes work each year is all that's needed.
Broken glass can also be found buried 2m south of the top of the beach stairs; and near the old garbage bin area 50' E of the bunk house. 

Gardens:
The garden plants, almost without exception, date back to A.T Howe so virtually all plants are around 80 years old. They need very little maintenance other than watering during drought periods and fall pruning.

The garden fronting on the house SW front yard terrace is a desert garden. The reason for this is that the foundation in that area was hand built - and excess watering leaks into the basement if sprinklers reach the house.

The junipers on the East side of the house were planted by Agnes Sovereign and provide a welcomed and safe passage for Carpenter Ants. (-; They should be removed. (The Mackie house experiences much less problems with Carpenter ants for this reason.)
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Beach
A couple of flood years caused the beach lawn area to settle - the rock walls along the beach front indicate the original height of the lawn area. A Front end loader could take fill down.
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The lake in front of the beach is free of rocks. There is a story behind this.
Chinese "labourers" dug the driveway to the beach by hand and took the dirt down to the beach by horse and buggy and wheelbarrow. This created the present beach area. At the same time, they pulled rocks out of the beach, reputedy well into November, which were used for the house foundation and chimneys. (This from Don Wylie's grandfather - the only known tradesman to have worked on the propery.)

Trees

1. There are three trees on the front lawn terrace, two magnificent maples and, closest to the long gardens and the garden stairs was a Ginko Tree, planted in memory of Bishop Soveriegn. The Ginko tree is one of the oldest living species of tree on earth.
 
2. The Spruce and Maple trees were planted by A.T. Howe and are all circa 90 years old. Brian Minter (of the CBC “Winter Show” and Minter’s Garden in Bridal falls) stated the trees were all young, healthy and all have an average expected life span of 240 years. The high canopy provides good shade for the house in summer. It is safe and adviseable to prune up to 10% of the tree each year
 
3. The Horse Chestnut tree at the NW side of the house can be pruned heavily like a Willow tree. You will see the change from old bark to new shoots. This is a messy tree particularly in the fall and could be removed with the septic tanks and field
 
4. The Spruce tree line down the hayfield is an important visual clue for migrating Ducks, Canada Geese and Herons. You will enjoy many pleasant evenings watching large flocks of waterfowl fly directly down the hay field, over your heads and then do aerobatics in an attempt to land as quickly as possible. Again, these trees date form about 1910 and have a life expectancy of about 240 years.
 
5. There middle tree in south center of the front lawn is a (red) Sugar Maple. There are now also a few hybrid Sugar Maples in the tree line going down the Mackie Hay field.
 
6. The Cork Elm trees on the terraces going down to the beach were also imported from Ontaria and planted by A.T. Howe - and are a bit of a story in themselves. For decades we thought they were junk trees and piled them up on brush piles and burned them in great quantity. Then a few years ago we found some “ironwood” firewood buried under fir needles and could not identify them. We put them on the fireplace and watched with amazement while they burned like a perfect natural gas fireplace. Perfect blue flames, very little smoke You guessed it. Sigh. Cork Elm. C’est la guerre! (-:  (But it produces large amounts of rock hard ash due to minerals brought up by the sap).
 
7. The large poplars at the beach were very important to my dad. The Blue Herons rotate their nesting location on a regular basis every 5 years. This past year has seen several pairs once again seriously eyeing the beach area for a nesting site again. They also provide roosting for Bald Eagles. Owles and a resident Osprey (on the threatened species list) who has made nests in the cork elm on the lake side of the front lawn.
   
 
8. The “Wealthy” Apple tree on the “Badminton Lawn” between the house and public washrooms is one of the family favorites and makes unbelievably good Apple sauce. It is particularly susceptible to Coddling Moth infestation and should be monitored closely.  Jamie Kidston cloned two sprigs of the Wealthy tree to another stock and these were planted in the spring of 2002 on the “Badminton Lawn” in memory of mom and dad. (Agnes and Art Sovereign.) These should be more resistant to bug infestation.
   - the “Ormsby lawn” (also known as the “Crocket Lawn”) has been converted into a beach volleyball court.

1. Arthur Ellison Sovereign 1924 - 2002 
2. Agnes Isabelle Sovereign 1929 - 2002
3. Bishop Arthur and Ellen Sovereign
4. Ellison Family History.