Manitoulin Island · Ontario · Canada

Where the North Channel Meets the Life You've Been Dreaming Of.

A small waterfront community of 15 private home sites on Manitoulin Island's North Channel. The kind of place you never want to leave.

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185–360 ft Waterfront Direct North Channel access
Mature Cedar & Pine Private, forested lots
Year-Round Road & Hydro Ready to build
From $149,000 + HST Waterfront home sites
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Trader's Pass lynx — Meldrum Bay, Manitoulin Island
About Trader's Pass

Is This What You've Been Looking For?

The North Channel at your feet. Wilderness at your door. A life that moves at your pace.

Wake up to a loon calling across still water. Build a fire at the water's edge under more stars than you've seen since you were a kid. Watch the Northern Lights dance above the tree line.

Fishing from your own shoreline. Bald eagles overhead. Keep your boat at the marina minutes away and explore some of the most celebrated sailing and power boating water in North America. The general store where everyone knows your name.

The real thing — wild, quiet, and completely yours.

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Crystal clear turquoise waters of Manitoulin Island's North Channel

Miles of pristine shoreline — your backyard at Trader's Pass

Meldrum Bay marina — just minutes from Trader's Pass, and a CBSA marine reporting site for international arrivals

Private forested shoreline with mature cedar and pine

Direct water access — pristine North Channel at your doorstep

Spectacular fall colours over the North Channel — Manitoulin Island in autumn

Sunset over the North Channel — the view from your home site

Year-round provincially maintained road through mature forest to your waterfront home site

Fall foliage above the North Channel — four seasons of natural beauty

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Available Home Sites

Fully approved registered subdivision. Each home site surveyed and staked. Provincially maintained year-round road. Hydro One at every entrance. 185 to 360 feet of pristine North Channel frontage. From 1.10 to 3.50 acres of your own privacy. Every home site is approved for single detached residential construction — just three straightforward permits between you and building your waterfront cottage, year-round home, or seasonal retreat.

Fifteen home sites from $149,000. Each one uniquely named after the wildlife that calls this shoreline home.

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Somewhere between the loons calling at dusk and the Northern Lights overhead, you stop thinking about the drive back. You start thinking about never leaving.

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This Is the Place

You've felt it before — that moment at the end of a long drive north when your shoulders drop and you exhale and something in you says this is it.

That feeling lives permanently at Trader's Pass. Wild, quiet, and completely yours.

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Manitoulin Island Waterfront Property Guide

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