Jouett's Island

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Jouett's Island
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Jouett's Island
Geography
Location Bay of Fundy
Administration
Canada
Province New Brunswick
County Charlotte
Parish West Isles Parish

Jouett's Island (also called Thrumcap Island) is located off the southern coast of Indian Island, between the larger Campobello Island and Deer Island in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada. [1] [2] [3]

Jouett's Island is four acres consisting of soil over conglomerate, with a former mansion belonging to Captain Moses. [4] [5]

C.H. Jouett had been reimbursed by the government for his construction of a "Bye Road" on Deer Island, in 1839. [6]

In 1853, Comptroller and Customs Inspector Fitzgerald petitioned the government for reimbursement as he'd been required to move his Customs Office from Jouett's Island to Campobello. [7]

In 1929, author Frances Gillmor published "Thumbcap Weir" which was set on a West Isles Parish, New Brunswick island titled "Deadman's Island" which was connected at low tide to a "Thumbcap" which held a herring weir. The island appears to have been modeled off Jouett's Island and Hospital Island and situated impossibly north of Spectacle Islands but south of White Horse Island. [8]

References

  1. "No. 166". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  2. "489" (PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 4 July 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 490, 497, 500, and 501 at same site.
  3. "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)". Government of Canada. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  4. Gesner, Abraham. "First Geological Survey of the Province of New Brunswick", 1839 - https://ia801307.us.archive.org/1/items/cihm_44810/
  5. Report on the Geological Survey of the Province of New Brunswick
  6. https://archive.org/details/actsofgeneralass1839newb/page/n37/mode/2up?q=%22deer+island%22
  7. Journal of the House of Assembly of ... New Brunswick from ... February to ... May, 1853 ... : 1853
  8. https://archive.org/details/thumbcapweir0000gill/page/206/mode/2up "Gillmor, Frances. "Thumbcap Weir", 1929. Especially pages 44 and 206