The home of Stuart and Wendy Scholefield was built in 1993 on a beautiful 2.5 acre waterfront parcel located on South Pender Island, British Columbia.

The acreage was purchased in 1949 by Stuart's aunt Sheila Buchanan, who appropriately named the home and land Clarinch.

Clarinch is also the proud home of Samantha and Julian Scholefield and family pets, Bailey, Neo and Archie.

Below is a poem written by George Owen Buchanan (father of Sheila Buchanan) which explains how the Clarinch name came to be.

Clarinch

Around Lock Lomond's storied lake
The lands Beauhammon lie;
A host of Gaels their surnames take
From this heredity.

Clarinnes was a wooded isle
Embosomed on the waves
Where sometimes sunny ripples smile
And sometimes tempest raves.

The chief Beauhammon knighthood bore
Gained on a field in France
Where Scotland's foes full many a score
Fell before Gilbert's lance.

He won his spurs; he won the hand
Of Countess Isabel;
He won the broad Beauhammon land
In Lennox and Kintel.

He held a court of life and limb;
He built a mighty clan:
McMaster, Gibson, Dove, McKim
Are septs of Buchanan.

We all are septs of Canada
Whose flag we hoist today -
The sign of liberty and low,
Of peace and harmony.

Clarinch means welcome to each friend
Who comes through our gateway,
And many summers may we spend
On Semiahmoo Bay.

George Owen Buchanan

This poem was most likely written for the dedication of the family summer home, "Clarinch", at Ocean Park, in 1928.

The Buchanan clan has one of the oldest established clan societies in Scotland. The most precious possession of the clan, its heartland, a small island, measuring just half a mile in length, name Clar Innis or Clarinch, on Loch Lomond. The Buchanan clan was first recorded on this island in 1225. At that time, the island was given to Sir Anselan of Absalon of Buchanan, said to be a son of Macbeth.