elm-logs

Updated: July 21, 2026

I built my house of elm-logs, thirty-six feet long by twenty-four feet wide, which I divided into three rooms on the ground-floor, besides an entrance-hall and staircase, and three bed-rooms up stairs. I was very busy till October making the shingles,* roofing, cutting out the door and window-spaces, and hewing the logs down inside the house.

Samuel Strickland - Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West: The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I)