The McGregor-Thompson House

McGregor-Thompson House 

(c.1850) 41 Bay Street 

 This house is believed to have been built around 1850 by Alexander M. McGregor. His wife, Elizabeth, taught local children in the house, which served informally as the first school in Port Credit. The house was purchased in 1882 by Joseph and Victoria Thompson, who are noted to have remodeled the home in 1900. Their daughter, Etta Pearson, later inherited the property and wrote an account of its history based on stories from her mother and her greatgrandmother, Elizabeth McGregor, which were collected in Ida Lynd Bradley’s 1966 scrapbook, “Some Early Families of Port Credit."