Mackay Memorial Hospital Introduction
In 1872, Canadian Presbyterian missionary Dr. George Leslie Mackay arrived in Tamsui and began his journey of preaching in Taiwan. The Mackay Memorial House is the residence where Mackay lived in Taiwan. It was designed and supervised by Mackay himself in 1875, constructed using materials from Xiamen in a Spanish-style chalk building, suitable for the humid and rainy climate of northern Taiwan. Mackay married and had children here, spending countless years with his Taiwanese wife, Zhang Congming, until his passing in 1901.
