In 1989, a Canadian couple bought 187 acres on Ontario’s Wilson Island as a family sanctuary; 36 years later, they donated it so its forests, wetlands and wildlife would stay protected

• Jim and Anne Purvis donated their 187-acre Wilson Island property after 36 years of stewardship.
• Jim and Anne Purvis purchased the 187.4-acre property on Wilson Island in Ontario’s Trent Hills area in 1989.
• Over the following decades, they stewarded the land with the goal of preserving and restoring its ecological integrity.