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
Orielton, Harrington Park using the train to Campbelltown to shoot over "Orielton's" land and attend the adjacent "Harrington Park" race track. The Peisley family knew the Davy family who occupied Harrington Park from 1852-70. During the early 1870s the sport of coursing (the pursuit of live hares by greyhounds across the countryside) was introduced to "Orielton" which became a popular activity at both the Orielton and Harrington Park estates. By the 1870s "Harrington Park" house had established a reputation as a gentleman's country seat, with "hospitality, picturesqueness and the hunt bringing interesting associations to the English eye". In 1874, Harrington Park and Lot