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