At 224 Beach, Idlewilde was the first house in Metis where the Osler family spent their summers when Glyn Osler discovered Metis for the family in the early 1900s. He came from a family of “overachievers” including a supreme court judge, a politician and director of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and Sir William Osler, a noted physician who revolutionized the training of doctors in North America.
The Osler family has been coming to Metis for four generations and has occupied several houses over the years. Trish Osler, great-granddaughter of Glyn Osler still comes to Metis and remembers what a typical summer day was like growing up here.
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