Sandy Island (New Brunswick)
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Bay of Fundy |
| Area | 8[1] acres (3.2 ha) |
| Administration | |
Canada | |
| Province | New Brunswick |
| County | Charlotte |
| Parish | West Isles Parish |
Sandy Island (formerly Gull Island[2]) is an undeveloped island in the West Isles Parish of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada, where the Bay of Fundy enters Passamaquoddy Bay.
It is made up of rocks resembling the normal coastal type.[3] As of 1839, the island was one of four belonging to the Campobello Mill and Manufacturing Company.[4]
It was identified as an important nesting site for Eider ducks.[5]
In 1964, Reginald Richardson was scuba-diving and discovered the wreck of an unidentified large ship with its cannonade, wine and anchor near the Sandy Island ledges off Deer Island.[6][7][8] It was determined, based on reviewing the June 22 1798 Saint John Gazette, that the ship had been the Britannia which had been wrecked June 15 1798.[9] The partially submerged wreck had been partially offloaded and its salvage listed for sale by John Black & Co, but during the winter scrappers plundered and burned the wreck leading to Black offering a reward for information leading to the capture of the culprits.[9]
In 1970, Eric Allaby and Art McKay dove the wreck and mapped its coordinates - with Allaby noting "the loss of the Britannia prompts an intriguing question...just how much influence the stranding of the Britannia might have had in directing trade away from Saint Andrews and toward Saint John.".[9]
In December 1985, a study by Parks Canada assessed the island's value as $3,600.[1]
Author Michael Strong condemned the approval of a salmon weir at Tinkers Island given its proximity to the harbour seal colony at Sandy Island and similar seals at Casco Bay Island, which would necessitate acoustic seal deterrants disruptive to the minke whales and harbour porpoises that traversed the site.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Parks Canada, "West Isles Feasibility Study....a National Marine Park in the West Isles", December 1985
- ^ https://ia801305.us.archive.org/33/items/cihm_21383/cihm_21383.pdf
- ^ Geological Survey of Canada, Report of Progress 1870-1871, pgs 82-111, https://archive.org/details/report-of-progress-gsc_1870-1871/page/n5/mode/2up
- ^ The Campobello Mill and Manufacturing Company, in New Brunswick, British North America, 1839, https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.21703/9
- ^ "Information archivée dans le Web" (PDF).
- ^ Welch, H. Wesley. "Welcome to Deer Island: Deer Island History", 1967. In reference collection St. Croix Library
- ^ Parks Canada, "West Isles Feasibility Study....a National Marine Park in the West Isles", December 1985. Figure 12.
- ^ Image of artifacts, held by NB Museum, are in "A pictorial treasury of the marine museums of the world" by Brandt Aymar, 1967, Crown Publishers edition
- ^ a b c Allaby, Eric. "The Sea Always Win: Shipwrecks of the Bay of Fundy", 2022
- ^ Tales and Rants from the Shore to the Offshore By Michael Strong, 2013
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