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German man sells Canadian island won in Haribo contest
In 2005, German man Matthias Ross won a private island in Canada in a Haribo contest.
The island is Back Lake in Nova Scotia, where Ross and his family spent summers enjoying the outdoors.
The property includes a two-bedroom, 85-square-metre cabin, solar power, lake water, two boats and a separate washroom with dry toilets.
Ross is now selling it for 348,000 Canadian dollars, or just over €220,000.
He says the annual property tax is €2,500, with additional costs for upkeep.
Travel from Germany also takes time and money, and the journey has become difficult for his ageing parents.
The sale listing offers 6.5 hectares of land, about 30 minutes from Shelburne; no sale date or buyer is given.
German owner Matthias Ross has put a private island in Canada up for sale for just over 220,000 euros.
He won the island in a Haribo contest in 2005.
The island is in Nova Scotia and is called Back Lake.
Ross says the costs of upkeep and travel from Germany have made the property too burdensome.
The 6.5-hectare island includes an 85-square-metre chalet, two boats and a storage shed.
- Who
- Matthias Ross, a 44-year-old German man.
- What
- He is selling the private island he won in a Haribo contest.
- When
- He won it in 2005 and put it up for sale 21 years later.
- Where
- Back Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- Why
- Upkeep costs and repeated travel from Germany have become too burdensome.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Matthias Ross won the Canadian island in a Haribo contest.
A Canadian company built a chalet on the island in consultation with Ross.
Ross and his family visited the island.
Ross put the island up for sale.
- Asking price
- 348,000 Canadian dollars, or a little over 220,000 euros
- Island
- 6.5 hectares at Back Lake, Nova Scotia
- Annual property tax
- 2,500 euros
- Chalet
- 85 square metres, with two bedrooms
- Nearby town
- Shelburne, about 30 minutes away; population 1,600
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