Works
| Building | Year Completed | Builder | Style | Source | Location | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McKay and McKinnon cloth mill | Thomas McKay | Library and Archives Canada, C-003853 | Rideau Falls near Ottawa, Ontario | |||
| Stone House currently the Bytown Museum | 1827 | Thomas McKay | Ottawa, Ontario | |||
| Rideau Hall | 1838 | Thomas McKay | Scottish Regency | Ottawa, Ontario | ||
| Earnscliffe | 1855 | Thomas McKay | Scottish Regency | Ottawa, Ontario |
Thomas McKay became quite wealthy and in 1837 he bought 1100 acres (4.5 km²) east of the village. On the western edge of this new land he built in 1838 for himself a limestone Scottish Regency mansion which he named Rideau Hall, and which is today official residence of the Governor General of Canada. He also built Earnscliffe to house his daughter and son-in-law. The remainder of McKay's lands later became the village of Rockcliffe Park. McKay also brought the first railroad to the Ottawa area with the Prescott and Bytown Railway that had its terminus at a station on Sussex Drive on the northern edge of New Edinburgh.
McKay entered politics serving on Bytown's city council, and then the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1834 to 1841. From 1841 until his death in 1855, he served on the Legislative Council of the United Province of Canada.
Thomas McKay was interred in the Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa. In New Edinburgh, the MacKay United Church is named in his memory.
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