Oct 14, 2022

Historic Local Manor is the home of "Atlantic Pottery" & Christian Corbet, Sculptor, Artist, Painter, Potter

Originally published January 29, 2020 
Reposting in October 2022 with additional information....


"Atlantic Pottery" Facebook https://www.facebook.com/newbrunswickpottery/

Atlantic Pottery website www.atlanticpottery.ca


"Braevale Manor" [was Broadmoor Manor] on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/edwardianresidence/?ref=py_c

I was fortunate to meet up at the Manor with Christian Corbet on the 2019 winter solstice  ~ "CC" is a very charming, warm and talented man.


Philip of England and Canada's Top Judge Beverley McLachlin ... two very famous folks...



Photography by Indie Media Eastcoast taken June 2010 in London England of Canada House..


Alan North writes on "Broadmoor Manor" on Facebook:

Broadmoor Manor had a sibling in Halifax on Young Avenue, also designed by Edmund Burke, and built around the same time, for George Campbell. Its foundation was made from red Shediac sandstone. It had numerous other character defining elements, and a distinguished history, which included the Canadian military. Its heritage protection application was underway when the developer who bought it then rushed to demolish it, even as tenants still lived in it.. The developer also bought the adjacent mansion Ardnamara, also demolished. As a result of his actions, Young Avenue was named to the National Trust of Canada's "10 most Endangered Places in Canada, 2017").



"Born at Pickering Beach, Ontario, he was raised by his paternal grandparents A. J. Corbet II and Alice Charlotte Corbet (née Gould) in both Toronto and the suburbs. His family are direct descendants of a prominent Corbet family of Guernsey, Channel Islands. At a very young age, he developed a strong interest in the fine arts. Due to increasingly ill health, chronic asthma, by the age of 14 he was not able to participate in regular sports like most children his age, his grandparents along with his great uncle and aunt strongly encouraged him to paint and sculpt often taking him on tours of museums and art galleries to study the Canadian Masters. The Corbet family also knew many notable Canadian artists to include [Isabel McLaughlin], [Frances Loring], [Florence Wyle] among others.

As Corbet's artistic career was just commencing in 1999 he was struck with the tragic death of his mother Alberta Charlotte Stevens whose body was found in a remote barren field near Orangeville, Ontario. The passing of his mother was regarded as a suspicious suicide."

source:  christian corbet - Toronto - LocalWiki


The new Town of Tantramar is home to many large old roomy historic homes... that is something unique about this old part of Canada... a unique and culturally historic old place in the landscape we call New Brunswick.


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