Man O War Island

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Man O War Island
Geography
Location Bay of Fundy
Administration
Canada
Province New Brunswick
County Charlotte
Parish Saint George Parish

Man O War Island is an undeveloped island in the Saint George Parish of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada in the Bay of Fundy. [1] [2] [3] It is at the mouth of L'etang Harbour. [4]

There are aquaculture sites off of Man O War Island, including owned by Kelly Cove Aquaculture. [5] [6]

As of 1923, it had two buoys associated with the island. [7]

In October 1925, Harry Stone's two-masted schooner Cora Gertie sank with no lives lost, in a gale after being blown into Bliss Harbour and striking Man O War Island. It had been parked 12 miles off the coast to sell smuggled White Horse whiskey which was salvaged from the sunken wreck. [8] [9] [10] [11] Prohibition inspectors found ten gallons of alcohol in a bog on Spruce Island where the crew had reached shore. [12]

References

  1. ↑ "No. 166". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 4 July 2021.[ dead link ]
  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.[ dead link ]
  3. ↑ "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)". Government of Canada. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  4. ↑ "Fifty Seventh Annual Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries for the year 1923-24 Marine" (PDF).
  5. ↑ "Heather Hunt Maps" (PDF).
  6. ↑ "Canada Gazette, part I - OTTAWA, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 2007" (PDF).
  7. ↑ "Fifty-Sevent Annual Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries", 1924, page 43" (PDF).
  8. ↑ Wentworth, Ernest & Richard Wilbur, "Silver Harvest", 1986
  9. ↑ "Daily Gleaner, Oct 12, 1925".
  10. ↑ “…gathering pebbles on a boundless shore…” — The Rum Beach Site and Intertidal Archaeology in the Canadian Quoddy Region 1, David W. Black
  11. ↑ “The ballad of the good ship Cora & Gertie” (Saint Croix Courier, Dec. 3, 1980)
  12. ↑ Allaby, Eric (2022). The Sea Wins: Shipwrecks of the Bay of Fundy. Halifax, NS: Nimbus Publishing. ISBN   9781774711378.

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