Holmes Lake (New Brunswick)

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Holmes Lake
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Holmes Lake
Location of Holmes Lake in New Brunswick
Location Southesk Parish, Northumberland County, New Brunswick
Coordinates 46°56′57″N66°36′37″W / 46.94917°N 66.61028°W / 46.94917; -66.61028
Type lake
Primary outflows Little Southwest Miramichi River
Basin  countriesCanada
Main camp building and adult quarters at Pratt Camps Pratt Camps on Holmes Lake, NB-1.jpg
Main camp building and adult quarters at Pratt Camps

Holmes Lake is a Canadian lake in Northumberland County, New Brunswick. [1]

Holmes Lake is one of several large lakes forming the headwaters of the Little Southwest Miramichi River. It was named in 1884 for the first lumberman who had worked the area [2]

The lake has long been the exclusive fishery of the Pratt family of New York. After being introduced to the area by longtime guide Henry A. Braithwaite, George Dupont Pratt constructed the log camps at the lake in 1909. [3] Ownership of the camps later passed to his son Sherman Pratt, co-founder of Marineland.

The Pratt family leased the fishing rights on this lake and the headwaters of the Little Southwest Miramichi River from the provincial government. Sherman Pratt was the founder of the Grenville Baker Boys Club (of Locust Valley, New York), [4] and allowed the use of the Pratt Camp as a summer camp for its members, approximately hosting thirty boys each summer.

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References

  1. Geographical Names of Canada "Geographical Names of Canada". Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2009-02-07.
  2. Rayburn, A. 1975. Geographical Names of New Brunswick. Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, Ottawa.
  3. Hamilton, W.D. undated in Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. http://www.biographi.ca/EN/009004-119.01-e.php?id_nbr=7795
  4. New York Times, 16 Sep 1964. Sherman Pratt, Sportsman, Dies; Marinelands' Founder Was 64. p. 31.