Bantjes, Rod, “MapleLodge.html,” in Eigg Mountain Settlement History, last modified, 14 August 2015 (http://people.stfx.ca/rbantjes/gis/txt/eigg/introduction.html).
Maple Lodge (Eigg Mountain Settlement History) (Map Location)
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Figure 1 – Panorama of Maple Lodge, June, 2018. |
Maple Lodge is a ‘camp’ or hunting lodge built on the grounds of Donald "Trunk" MacDonald's abandoned farm. The fields remained open as late as the 1960s and deer were often seen roaming through the yard. Mac (Malcolm) Wallace, Lorne Teasdale and Gussy McKinnon built the first camp there around that time. The current building was erected in the 1980s by Jack and Donny Teasdale and Stevie MacInnes.
The camp is used frequently on weekends. The guestbook has been signed by visitors from as far away as India.
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Figure 2 – Commemorative Stone. |
This commemorative stone (Figure 2) was erected on the site of an abandoned farmstead by descendents of the original settlers of Eigg Mountain. It seems to serve as another physical embodiment of Eigg Mountain as a community even though most traces of the agricultural settlement have long vanished.
The stone is from the hearth of William (Fettle) Gillis’s house. He is said to have been the last person to live continuously on the mountain.[1] A photograph of him hangs in Maple Lodge.[2]