Partridge Island (Charlotte County)

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

Partridge Island is an undeveloped island in the West Isles Parish of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada, where the Bay of Fundy enters Passamaquoddy Bay, off the northeast shore of Deer Island. [1] [2] [3] [4] As of 1983 the island was owned by Nellie Holmes. [1]

The island has spruce and balsam fir, and is composed of dark-green fine-grained volcanic rocks. [1] It has wild raspberry and gooseberry, and both mice and voles have been observed. [1]

It is the site of two shell middens, BgDr48 and BgDr49, that have been studied and dated between 400 BC to 500 AD. [5] [6] [1] [7] The time required for ancient natives to travel by canoe to the island has been measured. [8]

The island has been identified as one of those written about in the 1604 writings of Samuel Champlain and Sieur de Monts. [9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Black, David W. "What Images Return: A Study of the Stratigraphy and Seasonality of a Small Shell Midden in the West Isles of New Brunswick", 1983, https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/handle/11375/13106
  2. ↑ "No. 166". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  3. ↑ "489" (PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 4 July 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 490, 497, 500, and 501 at same site.
  4. ↑ "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)". Government of Canada. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  5. ↑ Bishop, Jennifer C., and David W. Black, 1988 The Lands Edge Also: Culture History and Seasonality at the Partridge Island Shell Midden. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 12:17–37.
  6. ↑ Recent Archaeological Research in the Insular Quoddy Region, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/203458?journalCode=ca
  7. ↑ Shaw, Chris. "An Analysis of Lithic Materials and Morphology from the Late Maritime Woodland and Protohistoric Periods at the Devil’s Head site in the Maine Quoddy Region", 2016
  8. ↑ Shaw, Christopher, "A GIS Approach to Ancestral Wabanaki Canoe Routes and Travel Times", 2016
  9. ↑ Parks Canada, "West Isles Feasibility Study....a National Marine Park in the West Isles", December 1985

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