The remarkable Esther Full-Lowden (1836-1896)

Esther Full- Lowden, who built the Mansion now known as the Haviland Club, was born to a Loyalist Family who had fled the revolution in the Thirteen Colonies in 1776 and moved to Halifax. Her parents were William Full and Margaret Anderson, a well to do couple.

She married in her early twenties; bore three daughters Dorothy (1859-1934), Alice (1863-1926) and Georgina (1864-1943). Esther became a widow at twenty-eight and lost her home in the great fire of Charlottetown in 1866.  She decided to build a new home for herself and her children in 1869, at 2 Haviland Street, the house known today as The Haviland Club.

Esther of Farringford, the Book

Book on the life and times of Esther Full-Lowden, young widow, single parent, business woman.

Esther of Farringford, by author Lynne Thiele

Published, 2020, by Over The Bridge Club, 47 pages.

Available at the Haviland Club, $15.00.

This book narrates the story of the life and times of Esther Full- Lowden; Esther’s widowhood, her life as a single parent and as a businesswoman, construction of her house Farringford (now the Haviland Club), death of Esther Lowden in 1896 and the years afterwards and the many occupants of this heritage mansion.