Norah's Island

Norahs Island, Kennisis Lake

Norah’s Island is a 22-acre island on beautiful Kennisis Lake. In 2007, Norah’s Island was donated to the Haliburton Highlands Land Trust through Environment Canada’s Ecological Gifts Program by the late Bruce Carruthers to honour the memory of his late wife, Norah.

Norah’s Island is one of the last vestiges of intact representative wilderness on Kennisis Lake, one of Haliburton County’s major cottage lakes, and lies about 1,000 feet from the nearest mainland point. Dense undergrowth of ground hemlock discourages visitors to the interior. Plant species include bearberry, club moss, goldthread, honeysuckle, bracken fern, lady fern, lichens, painted trillium, pale corydalis, pipsissewa, red-berried elder, saskatoon berry, starflower and wintergreen.