Moorside
The summer residence
Mackenzie King’s country home, and the institute’s ceremonial heart.
The Estate
The Estate
The institute convenes on the Mackenzie King estate in Gatineau Park.
William Lyon Mackenzie King left his country estate to Canadians. The institute keeps a part of that inheritance not as a museum but as a working campus — a place to read, to walk, and to argue in the open air.
The motto, Per silvam ad lucem — through the forest, to the light — is a plain reading of the setting: the long walk through the pines, and the clearing beyond.
Gatineau Park
The Mackenzie King estate
On the grounds
The Ruins
The curated follies
Salvaged stone arranged among the trees — a standing meditation on permanence and ruin.
Kingsmere Lake
The long shore
The water that gives the institute its name, and its motto its forest.
Field terms bring students out of the seminar room and onto the grounds, where the history they read is a short walk from the government it shaped.
The estate is shared with the people of Canada; the institute is its tenant, its student, and — it hopes — a careful steward.
Come and see it.
Campus visits for prospective students and families are arranged through admissions.