Penn Island (New Brunswick)

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Penn Island
Geography
Location Bay of Fundy
Area11 [1]  ha (27 acres)
Administration
Canada
Province New Brunswick
County Charlotte
Parish Pennfield Parish

Penn Island is an undeveloped granite [2] island in the Pennfield Parish of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada in the Bay of Fundy. [3] [4] [5] It has large quartz. [6]

In 2011, Inka Milewski addressed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Fisheries about her research on fallowing including on a fish farm at Penn Island. [7]

In 2009, Burton Large was killed by a falling buoy under inspection by Northern Harvest Sea Farms, being lifted out of the waters around Penn Island. [8]

Today it is a nature preserve administered by the Nature Trust of New Brunswick, [9] [1] following a donation by the Duschenes family.

References

  1. 1 2 "Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators". Canada.ca. 2025-07-31. Retrieved 2025-10-16.
  2. "ACCRETION OF PERI-GONDWANAN TERRANES, NORTHERN MAINLAND NOVA SCOTIA AND SOUTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK" (PDF).
  3. "No. 166". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  4. "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.
  5. "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)". Government of Canada. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  6. "Location of the Brookville and adjacent terranes in southern New... | Download Scientific Diagram".
  7. "Evidence - FOPO (41-1) - No. 18 - House of Commons of Canada". www.ourcommons.ca.
  8. "N.B. company fined $15K for workplace death".
  9. "Great Fundy Coastal Cleanup on Penn Island Nature Preserve". 27 September 2025.