This explains her religious position using conversation with a dying cottager. Reaney gives the surname deriving from the Old French "cotier" "cottager" (see&colon; villein). Many of the workers were employed as an agricultural labourer, farm servant or cottager. Nearby Muldrew Lake was named after the lake's second cottager, Dr. William Hawthorne Muldrew. Each cottager on Native land pays an annual fee to the First Nation. They built a clubhouse on the golf course and invited cottager to join.