The Wharf Series - A view of Indian Island Traditional Cache
The Wharf Series - A view of Indian Island
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On the day this cache was placed it was sunny with fog off in the distance. The view was breathtaking. After placing the cache a bald eagle flew just feet away from me.I could hear the sound of his wings.
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Indian Island, New Brunswick, less than a mile off the coast of Eastport, Maine is one of several islands in Head Harbor Passage known collectively as the West Isles. Some years ago, Park Canada proposed a marine park for this area, but Deer Island, with the largest number of fishing weirs in the Bay of Fundy, objected. Deer Island fishermen were afraid that an influx of tourists would frighten away the herring and the marine park was never built.
Back in the mid-nineteenth century fishing weirs lined the shores of Indian Island, too. Tiny Indian Island (150 acres to Deer Island's 10,000) never had a population of more than one hundred. Yet, in 1827, there was a fleet of thirteen vessels anchored offshore or tied up at one of its wharves, all owned and operated by Indian Island men. They carried fish and lumber to the West Indies and returned with rum, sugar, and molasses.
Today the eagle and the osprey still soar over Indian Island as they did in 1827. Its clean, cold water still provides abundant food for the harbor seals, porpoises, and whales that inhabit the area, but by 1983 when Park Canada proposed a marine park for the West Isles, Indian Island's fishing weirs, her wharves, her fleet of sailing ships, even her schoolhouse and most of her homes had vanished. By 1952, the last four inhabitants had moved to nearby Deer Island. Indian Island houses stood empty, gazing out to sea. Today only four of those houses are habitable. Summer people come for brief visits, listen to the waves wash the pebble beach, inhale the pure crystal air, then return to their homes in the city.
Taken from In Search of Lost History: Indian Island, New Brunswick by Margaret Kay
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