Rabbit Island Paddle on Spitfire Lake. A plaque on Rabbit Island commemorates the tuberculosis experiments Dr. Trudeau performed here in the summer of 1886. The plaque reads: "On this island in 1886 Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau conducted his historic experiment to determine the effect of environment on the incidence and progress of tuberculosis in a colony of rabbits. This plaque was placed by Trudeau Institute, Inc. in commemoration of this pioneering study in experimental epidemiology, October 7, 1972.".