Comfort Maple

The tree is estimated (not based upon a complete ring count) to be about 500 years old.

[1][2] If correct, it would make this one of the oldest sugar maple trees in Canada.

[4] A township map from later in the 19th century shows the land owned by John B.

[1] Due to the rigors of age as well as at least one major lightning strike, the tree has been repaired over the years with bricks,[3] concrete, and guy wires.

[4] The conservation area is located at the end of a narrow lane off Metler Road.

The Comfort Maple Tree, Pelham , Ontario
Interpretive sign
Wires were installed to support the branches of the tree