In 1919 Neil McTaggart was looking to purchase a summer cabin. After looking at sev­eral lots on the mainland he was told about Buccaneer Bay. That summer he purchased a beach lot from the Filtness', who were forced to sell due to an illness in the family.

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During the next two years a floor was put in and a Marquis tent was erected. Over the next ten years the tent was converted to a wood frame cabin.

 

At some point in the 30's the cabin was transferred to George McTaggart and then after WWII to his daughter, Bunty and Leighton Exel. The other two siblings, Drew and David, eventually acquired cabins at the Bay as well.

 

Over the next twenty years the cabin was enlarged to include a kitchen and a bedroom and when the Exel family moved from the States in 1966 a sleeping shack was pulled from behind the Farrow cabin and placed out back. In 1973 Leighton and Bunty purchased a lot in Water Bay which was eventually transferred to Louise and Fraser Exel (Fraser started building a log cabin at that site in 1988).

 

In 1981 the beach cabin was transferred to its current owners, Alison and Archie Begin and Gordon Exel and Caroline Jellinek. It is now waiting to be transferred to the 5th generation.