Nantucket Island (New Brunswick)
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 Nantucket Island on a 1953 map | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Bay of Fundy |
| Area | 32[1] ha (79 acres) |
| Administration | |
Canada | |
| Province | New Brunswick |
| County | Charlotte |
| Parish | Grand Manan Parish |
Nantucket Island is a privately owned island between Woodward's Cove and the Duck Islands in the Grand Manan Parish of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada in the Bay of Fundy.[2][3][4]
Most of its 80 acres are arable, and it has historically been used to grow potatoes, turnips, wheat, oats and barley.[1] Over the hundred years that it belonged to the Moses and Cheney families, "Nantucket Island served as an outdoor laboratory for marine biology, ornithology and horticulture".[5]
In 1806, William Gactomb became the first settler on the island. In 1829 Moses Cheney, son of William Cheney of Cheney Island, also settled on the island and his son the naturalist Simeon .F. Cheney lived out seventy years on the island.[1]
The island was historically seen as a trove of flora and Fauna to be studied, with naturalist Spencer Fullerton Baird visiting the island six times before 1886 and writing in his 1869 report to the Smithsonian Institution about the island.[1][5]
There were visits to the island as well by Senator George F. Edmunds at Baird's recommendation, as well as naturalists Addison Emery Verrill, Francis Hobart Herrick and others.[1]
In 1909, John Russell purchased the island from Cheney.[5]
Today
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 St Andrews Bay Pilot (Saint John Sun), "Nantucket Island: An Interesting Spot in the Bay of Fundy", March 25 1886
- ↑ "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. 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.
- ↑ "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)". Government of Canada. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- 1 2 3 Wings Over the Sea, by L.K. Ingersoll
- 1 2 "Grand Manan Tourism". www.grandmanannb.com.
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