the 'lone shieling', built in 1942 in canada's cape breton highlands national park, is modelled on a scottish 'bothran' or shepherds' hut of the type that was used during the summer when it was possible to move the sheep up on to the hills to graze. it has the same design as the lone sheiling on the scottish isle of skye, romanticised in the lines "from the lone shieling of the misty island/mountains divide us and the waste of seas – yet still the blood is strong, the heart is highland, and we in dreams behold the hebrides."