In 1941, Mrs. Rogers moved back to this area on the death of her uncle, Archibald Campbell.

Archibald Campbell had lived in Cramahe Township on the estate known at that time as Belleview (sic) [1949 newspaper article calls it Bellevue]., on the corner of Ontario Street and Lakeshore Road, where Enid had spent such happy years as a teenager. Her great-uncle died leaving that property to the family, but most of his nine-million-dollar estate went to charity said Lawson.

Lawson recalls happy times in the former grand home at Belleview (sic): time spent with his grandmother, Edith McTavish Rogers. He said, “I used the muskets and dueling pistols and swords I found there as playthings.” He recalls sleeping in a four-poster bed that seemed “big enough for ten people.”

“The oaken beams that supported the upper storey were two feet square,” he said. In 1947, soon after Enid came home from overseas, her mother died. The following year, the huge home burned down [newspaper article states 1949].

“It was a terrible loss for the family,” Lawson said of the fire which destroyed the house and its historical contents, but fortunately occasioned no loss of life [1949 newspaper article states family dog “mike” died]..

Enid Rogers remained on the property, existing initially in makeshift quarters improvised for her by a local carpenter, Arnold Ives, from what was left of the garage, or drive shed.

Ives also built a small frame home of the property in which Enid lived for the rest of her life, and in which she died last Monday, July 16 [1990].

In 1948, her new, smaller home completed, Enid changed the name of the property from Belleview (sic) to Inverawe Farms and started a new venture. She became the raiser and breeder of champion Yorkshire hogs.

“She made quite a success of it,” says her nephew. “She and her pigs were written up in breeders’ magazines all over North America.”

By the early 1960s, Enid went out of the hog business and began again the travels she had enjoyed so much earlier in her life. She toured Europe and North and South America and made an international gallery of friends who remained devoted to her all her life.

“She was extremely generous to friends and charities,” said her nephew. In particular, she was extremely giving to her dear friend, Arthur Loukes, who lived at Inverawe Farm and for whom she cared for 24 years until his death a few years ago.