William H. Prowse was a son of Senator Prowse, and left Murray Harbour as a young man to live in Alberta and Manitoba. He came back later in about 1913, and became a partner in Prowse and Sons with his brother Albert Perkins Prowse. He had this home built in Murray Harbour, but it was destroyed in a fire shortly after the end of WWI. Ray Brooks, who is one of the local participants in Dutch Thompson's Island Voices interviews, later owned the property.