Legacy of a Hermit
The world knew Willard Kitchener Macdonald as the Hermit of Gully Lake - an elderly man in rags who lived alone for more than half a century in the wilderness of northern Nova Scotia.
By the time he went missing in 2003, his legend had spread across Canada, and beyond. According to that legend, he jumped off a troop train in the 1940s to avoid going to World War II. He spent the rest of his days hiding out in a tiny, dark hut at Gully Lake, a remote spot in the Cobequid Mountains. Mystery still shrouds that legend and the man behind it.
And no one has suffered more from those unsolved mysteries than Leroy Marshall. He grew up believing that Willard MacDonald was his father. In this week's Maritime Magazine, Joan Baxter brought us Leroy's story.
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