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Comfort Maple
The Comfort Maple tree is an individual sugar maple (''Acer saccharum'') located in Comfort Maple Conservation Area in the Town of Pelham, Ontario. The tree is estimated (not based upon a complete ring count) to be about 500 years old.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.npca.ca/conservation-areas/comfort-maple/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.ancientforest.org/oldtrees.htm )〕 If correct, it would make this one of the oldest sugar maple trees in Canada.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.niagaracollegegreenhouse.com/pdfs/0092.pdf )〕
The tree is named for the Comfort family, who acquired the land in 1816.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.adamshoalts.com/comfortmaple.html )〕 A township map from later in the 19th century shows the land owned by John B. Comfort,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/CountyAtlas/images/maps/townshipmaps/well-m-Pelham.jpg )〕 and a sign at the site tells visitors that the tree and the land around it were donated to the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority on April 30, 1961 by Miss Edna Eleanor Comfort. The current owner of the Comfort Maple is Dr. Paul Coyne.〔http://ontariourbanforestcouncil.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/toolkit-intro-copy.pdf〕
The tree is tall with a crown that is in circumference with the trunk itself measured at in circumference at the base. 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, concrete, and guy wires. The conservation area is located at the end of a narrow lane off Metler Road. (Niagara Regional Rd. 28) near North Pelham. It is surrounded by farm land. It is just and has a small parking area.
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