In 1874, John Henry Menzies bought farm #31 from Paul Urgèle Gabriel Valois and renamed le Bocage “The Homestead”. He started a vineyard in 1877, but it was not successful. He also built six villa cottages (still standing today #33, 35, 37, 39, 41 and 43 Lakeshore Road; #35 was demolished in 2015). Menzies had called his property “Beaconsfield” in honour of his friend Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, politician and English novel writer, England Prime Minister in 1868 and again from 1874 to 1880.

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