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11. 914 Boyle:
House of Many Names
The gracious home chosen to be the Hamoudi
residence for the series Little Mosque on the
Prairie has other names: the Roy Boone house, Dr.
McDonald’s house, the Robison house and, presently,
the Mallory house. However, it was originally built, in
1910, by the Bank of Montreal.
Edward Boone, Roy’s father, had claimed land
in 1882. He had been part of the MacKay Farming
Company, an enterprising partnership which, in 1886,
won first prize from a London grain exchange for a
hand-picked bushel of Red Fife wheat. When Edward
moved back to Toronto, he divided his land between his
sons. Roy Boone and family farmed from 1909 until
1919. After 1919, Roy’s allergies forced him off the
farm. He worked for Ripley’s Garage in Indian Head,
and he and Frances (Fannie) Boone bought the house on
Boyle.
Meanwhile, Roy’s mother, also named Frances, moved
back west after his father died. She built next door to
Roy and Fannie, eventually selling her house to Jimmy
Robison and moving in with her son and daughter-inlaw.
The Boones had three children, and Fannie’s parents
moved west as well, so it must have been a full house.
Roy Boone died in 1945 and Fannie in 1972.
Dr. Hugh McDonald also lived at 914 Boyle, and the
house was home to the Allan and Elinor Robison family
for 34 years before Frank and Judy Mallory bought it in
1988. AK
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