Harrington Lake Diefenbaker suggested that he needed a quiet place to go fishing, not too far from Ottawa. Later that year, Harrington Lake was chosen as the site for an official country residence and the buildings were formally designated as a secure residence for Canada’s prime ministers. During the first prime ministership of Pierre Trudeau, his then-wife, Margaret, added a vegetable garden; according to Kim Campbell's autobiography "Time and Chance", the garden still provided the house with fresh produce at the time of that writing. Campbell was the only Prime Minister to have spent her entire term in office residing at Harrington
Harrington Park (homestead) natural history of New South Wales. "Harrington Park" is rare at the State level as one of the earliest Gentleman's residences (1817-1827) dating from the Macquarie period on the Cowpasture frontier of the Cumberland Plain. The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places/environments in New South Wales. The "Harrington Park" estate is of State significance as a fine example of a Gentleman's Estate from the early 1800s. The "Harrington Park" homestead is a good representative example of a substantial Georgian Period Homestead with Victorian and Modern period overlays. Harrington Park (homestead)