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| Geography | |
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| Location | Bay of Fundy |
| Administration | |
Canada | |
| Province | New Brunswick |
| County | Charlotte |
| Parish | West Isles Parish |
Spruce Island is an undeveloped island in the West Isles Parish of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada, where the Bay of Fundy enters Passamaquoddy Bay. [1] [2] [3] [4] Its name goes back to at least 1772, when it was titled Spruce Island on the survey of Thomas Wright. [5]
It is one of the islands where a narrow belt of Devonian sandstone is found. [6] Its eastern side is steep, and there are islets and shoals off its western side. [7]
As of 1839, the island was one of four belonging to the Campobello Mill and Manufacturing Company. [8]
On May 31st, 1911, the American schooner Fly Away and its cargo of salt was wrecked on Spruce Island, while travelling from Boston to Eastport, Maine. [9] The schooner MK Rawley was wrecked on Spruce Island in 1914, with its six crew members rescued. [10]
Following the 1925 wreck of the alcohol-smuggling Cora Gertie on the Bliss Islands, Prohibition inspectors found ten gallons of alcohol in a bog on Spruce Island where the crew had reached shore. [11]
A 1985 study confirmed the presence of an unnamed shipwreck off the northeast corner of the island. [12]
