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The Old Mill at St. Andrews East, c.1900

Colour oil painting of a mill on the banks of a river in the fall. It shows the river, trees and the mill. A low gabled building is seen from the back, next to which is the mill in two sections. The first section, on the left, has two floors of grey stone and a rusty gabled roof. The second section, on the right and attached to the first, has three floors and a dark grey gable roof. Behind the mill is a waterfall, a black railway bridge and more trees.

This painting entitled The Old Mill at St. Andrews East was painted around 1900 by Mary Alexandra Bell Eastlake. Alexandra Bell was born in 1864 in Douglas, Ontario but spent part of her childhood on the banks of the Ottawa River while her father worked on the construction of the first Carillon Dam. Friend and confidante of Maude, she became an internationally renowned artist.