Beaver Hall
He had a large townhouse in Montreal on St. Gabriel Street and extensive land holdings throughout Quebec. In 1792, he built his Country seat, Beaver Hall, which was one of the early estates of the Golden Square Mile. The wife of Governor-General Sir John Graves Simcoe observed in her diary that Mrs Frobisher, "lived in great style and comfort, and had an excllent garden".
Since retiring from the fur trade in 1798, the sociable Mr Frobisher had enjoyed the good life and developed a passion for sumptuous dining to the extent that he kept a diary specifically for recording his dinner parties. His dining room comfortably sat forty guests, and even though he was not in the best of health from 1806, he continued to dine out or entertain in his home every night of the week. He was secretary and chairman of the Beaver Club from 1807 until his death, and they frequently met at Frobisher's home. Frobisher died at Beaver Hall in 1810, and his home succumbed to fire in 1847.
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