 The immediate area was first settled by pioneer families in the early 1870s.One of the original families, the McGillivray's, are still part of the Paudash Lake community.In 1875, Malcolm McGillivray Sr. took a land grant of at Concession V111, a point of land jutting into Paudash Lake, and later built the first bridge over the narrows between the upper and lower lakes (by today's Anchorage Resort).