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Cottage of the Week: $8.5 million for the former Eaton family 2,500-acre hunting preserve

Cottage of the Week: $8.5 million for the former Eaton family 2,500-acre hunting preserve

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ADDRESS: Boundary Lake Property

NEIGHBOURHOOD: Seguin Township, Township of the Archipelago, Georgian Bay

AGENT: George Webster, Moffat Dunlap Real Estate Ltd.

PRICE: $8.5 million

THE PLACE: The name of the estate might not resonate as much as Hyannisport, the Kennedys’ Cape Cod compound, but Boundary Lake was once the summer escape of Canada’s uncrowned monarchy, the Eatons.  Their Georgian Bay retreat was first developed by John David Eaton in the 1940s as a hunting preserve and was used by the family until the late ’90s, when an orthodontist from Grimsby purchased the site and restored the buildings.

BRAGGING RIGHTS: Hyannisport is a paltry six acres compared with Boundary’s enormous 2,500 acres, which extend over two townships and provide access to more lakes than there are days of the week. To put the size in perspective, you could fit 60 Eaton Centres on the site and still have room for all the cabins, the boathouse and at least one of the lakes (suck it, Camelot).

BIG SELLING POINT: The property is bordered on three sides by Massasauga Provincial Park, a nature preserve accessible only by water, which basically acts like a 32,100-acre buffer against anything or anyone attempting to encroach on your Arcadian kingdom.

POSSIBLE DEAL BREAKER: Speculators eager to buy the place and subdivide it, and its many lake fronts, into scores of smaller cottage properties have to ask themselves:  how many buyers are going to pay premium bucks for a vacation home as the stock market goes through more ups and downs than Lindsay Lohan’s career?

BY THE NUMBERS:
• 2,500 acres
• 7 bedrooms divided between 3 cabins
• 2 bathrooms
• 1 sauna
• 1 sugar shack
• 1 root cellar
• 1 barn
• 1 island
• 1 herd of elk
• 1 boathouse

Topics: Cottage of the Week cottages Eaton Centre Georgian Bay hunting Real Estate

9 thoughts on “Cottage of the Week: $8.5 million for the former Eaton family 2,500-acre hunting preserve”

  2. Not loving the price… Then again if you do subdivide it and build it into a luxury cottages you would make money on it but you’d have to wait a while for wall street to regroup.

  4. looks like the EATON FAMILY was roughing it when they went north ,,not the biggest of cottages ..but lots of land for expansion …wondering what was the buying price originally..thinking less than the price of property taxs for a year today ..

  5. Yuck. The price must be for the land and not the buildings or furniture. How horrible to go and set up a place to live in the animals natural environment and then to thank the lovely creatures for sharing it with you by killing them and hanging parts of their now lifeless bodies on your walls. Do hunters think they are big tough heros killing innocent animals? So disturbing. Find something better to do with your time. Maybe making a positive contribution in the world.

  6. “BRAGGING RIGHTS: Hyannisport is a paltry six acres compared with Boundary’s enormous 2,500 acres, (suck it, Camelot). Are you kidding! You’re comparing this this empty lot with the history and elegance of Hyannisport. You Torontonians really are assholes!

  7. well, it was a hunting lodge – get rid of the “animal parts” and It would be quaint – and very private.

  8. you can buy 2500 acres of swamp land anywhere in ontario…if the land is managed good luck subdividing

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