Spruce Island (Bay of Fundy)
Island in New Brunswick, Canada
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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]
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| Geography | |
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| Location | Bay of Fundy |
| Coordinates | 44°58′21″N 66°54′27″W |
| Administration | |
Canada | |
| Province | New Brunswick |
| County | Charlotte |
| Parish | West Isles Parish |
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] It has been the subject of subtidal graduate studies.[8] In 1978, Mackay noted a high species abundance and diversity here, and five other nearby islands.[9]
As of 1839, the island was one of four belonging to the Campobello Mill and Manufacturing Company.[10]
In 1896, a fisherman's camp being used during lobster season on Spruce Island burned down; at the time the island belonged to Howard Johnston and Laurence Black.[11]
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.[12] The schooner MK Rawley was wrecked on Spruce Island in 1914, with its six crew members rescued.[13]
Following the 1925 wreck of the alcohol-smuggling Cora Gertie on the Bliss Islands where it struck Man O War Island, Prohibition inspectors found ten gallons of alcohol in a bog on Spruce Island where the crew had reached shore.[14]
A 1985 study confirmed the presence of an unnamed shipwreck off the northeast corner of the island.[15]
As of 2003, a weir was maintained at the island by Raymond Young.[16]
The Pup is an islet to the northern side of Spruce Island.
