Bliss Islands
Native name: Seebes'kook[1] | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Bay of Fundy |
| Area | 42.1[2] ha (104 acres) |
| Administration | |
Canada | |
| Province | New Brunswick |
| County | Charlotte |
| Parish | Saint George Parish |
Bliss Islands are undeveloped islands in the Saint George Parish of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada in the Bay of Fundy.[3][4][5] They are named after Samuel Bliss, the original grantee in the 18th century who was also granted title to White Horse Island.[6]
The Bliss Islands have three shell middens, dubbed BgDq4, BgDq5 and BgDq6.[7][8] An arrowhead estimated to date to 600BC has also been recovered in the BgDg6 midden.[9][10]
Ernest Ingersoll mentions passing the islands, en route to Lubec by steamship from Saint John.[11]
Spencer Fullerton Baird carried out a 19th century archaeological study of the islands.[12] During the Saxby Gale of 1869, the Rechab ship sank in Bliss Harbour; in 1850 she had been part of a "mysterious" journey to the Turks and Caicos hoping to retrieve pirate treasure.[13]
There is a lighthouse on the west end of the island, on the southern side of the western entrance to Bliss Harbour.[14] As of 1879, Jarvis Clark and his family ran the lighthouse.[15] In 1911, there was one family listed as living on the island.[16]
In October 1925, Harry Stone's two-masted schooner Cora Gertie (purchased from the sons of Captain Crocker and built at Richardson's shipyard on Deer Island), sank with no lives lost, in a gale after being blown into Bliss Harbour and striking Man O War Islet. It had been parked 12 miles off the coast to sell smuggled White Horse whiskey which was salvaged from the sunken wreck.[17][18][19]
In 2020, the Nature Trust of New Brunswick converted the island into a conservationist reserve.[20]
References
[edit]- ^ https://archives.gnb.ca/Exhibits/Communities/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&community=4521
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20230705144436/https://www.naturetrust.nb.ca/cynb-properties-gallery/vkup96st64nox8d6o5s5jywsmieisl
- ^ "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.
- ^ https://archive.org/details/collectionsofnew7t13newb
- ^ Recent Archaeological Research in the Insular Quoddy Region, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/203458?journalCode=ca
- ^ Black, D. Living Close to the Ledge: Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Bliss Islands, Quoddy Region, New Brunswick, Canada. PhD dissertation, Dept of Anthropology, McMaster University.
- ^ Suttie, Brent David. "Archaic Period Archaeological Research in the Interior of Southwestern New Brunswick", 2002
- ^ Shaw, Chris. "An Analysis of Lithic Materials and Morphology from the Late Maritime Woodland and Protohistoric Periods at the Devil’s Head site in the Maine Quoddy Region", 2016
- ^ Ingersoll, Ernest, "Down East Latch Strings", pg95-100
- ^ Shaw, Christopher, "A GIS Approach to Ancestral Wabanaki Canoe Routes and Travel Times", 2016
- ^ "Place of Pollock", Canadian Geographical Journal 1959
- ^ https://archive.org/stream/cihm_27683/cihm_27683_djvu.txt
- ^ https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2021/parl/x12-3/X12-3-3-1879-eng.pdf
- ^ https://archives.gnb.ca/Exhibits/Communities/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&community=4521
- ^ https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.N_00126_192509/367, 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)
- ^ https://www.naturetrust.nb.ca/en/1000acres-protected-2019-2020
