Fundy Isles
The Fundy Isles is a term given to a group of Canadian islands in the Bay of Fundy along the southwestern coast of New Brunswick, Canada, in the provincial county of Charlotte. The weather is more moderate than the rest of New Brunswick, with a milder winter with less snow, earlier spring, longer autumn and a later cooler summer.[1]
There are over 25 islands within this group including the West Isles. Some of the larger islands are inhabited year-round while some of the smaller islands may have seasonal residents.
The largest of the islands is Grand Manan with the second and third largest islands being Campobello Island and Deer Island respectively. Deer Island shares its coastline with not only the Bay of Fundy, but also Passamaquoddy Bay to its north. Smaller islands exist along each of the larger islands as well as within Passamaquoddy Bay and along the New Brunswick mainland. Some of these islands include White Head Island (situated off Grand Manan's southeast coast), Macs Island and Pendleton Island (both situated between Deer Island and the New Brunswick mainland), Minister's Island and Hospital Island (situated in Passamaquoddy Bay).
In 1824, Lt. Governor Sir Howard Douglas declined a request to form a new county out of the islands, noting "the quality of society on Campobello is such that insufficient persons could be found to act as magistrates, justices of the peace...serious dissension exists in all three islands".[2][3] He wrote to Lord Bathurst the following year, noting that 80% of the 2,800 crates of tea consumed in New Brunswick were smuggled through these three islands.[3][4]
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the Fundy Isles became "one of the great smuggling centres of the North Atlantic",[5] and historian Joshua Smith has noted the prevalence of smuggling based on the islands, noting “the more government forces attempted to halt unregulated trade, the more apparent it became to locals that the state was an unwelcomed and alien force”.[6]
References
[edit]- ↑ Airphoto Analysis Associates Consultants, "Fundy Isles Region Tourism Industry Development Plan", federal Department of Regional Economic Expansion, NB Department of Tourism, 1976
- ↑ U.N.B.Archives, New Brunswick Despatches Sent, Microfilm Reel 26: Douglas to Lord Bathurst, November 10, 1825.
- 1 2 DENOMINATIONALISM IN A LOYALIST COUNTY: "' A SOCIAL HISTORY OF CHARLOTTE 1783 - 1940· . by Thomas William Acheson B.A., U.N.B., 1962
- ↑ U.N.B.Archives, New Brunswick Despatches Sent, Microfilm Reel 26: Douglas to Lord Bathurst, November 10, 1825.
- ↑ Conrad, Margaret (Summer 2016). "Petty Justice: Low Law and the Sessions System in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, 1785–1867 by Paul Craven (review)". University of Toronto Quarterly. 85 (3): 565–566.
- ↑ Yeomans, Richard. "Loyalist Borderlands on Campobello Island: The Ordeal of Gillam Butler, Part Two". Atlantic Loyalist Connections. University of New Brunswick. Retrieved 11 June 2026.
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