Marble Island (New Brunswick)

Marble Island
Geography
LocationBay of Fundy
Administration
Canada
ProvinceNew Brunswick
CountyCharlotte
ParishWest Isles Parish
A pre-1900 photograph from Indian Island, showing Cherry Island on the left and Marble Island on the right; the white house in the centre is the Moses Residence.[1]

Marble Island (also called Marvel Island,[2][3][4] Rouen Islet or Rowan Islet[5]) is an undeveloped island in the West Isles Parish of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada, where the Bay of Fundy enters Passamaquoddy Bay.[6][7][8]

It may have been occupied 3000 years ago.[9] Archaeological excavation was done on the island by Stephen A. Davis and Albert Ferguson in the 1970s-80s.[10][11][12][13] Four double-grooved stone axes of indeterminate age, possibly from the terminal archaic period,[14] were recovered by Davis from Marble Island in 1982.[15] BfDr8 is on the island.[16][17]

As David Owen had rejected efforts to build a customs house on Campobello Island, objecting to its aesthetic value in sketches and coincidentally reducing his trouble shipping across the international border, the government was forced to build one on Marble Island which proved less than effective.[5]

Three trading posts, belonging to James Simonds, William Hazen and White, are believed to have been built on Marble Island.[2] In 1849, Marble Island merchant George N. Kay was wounded in the right lung, one of 120 people injured and dozens killed in New York's Astor Place Riot revolving around whether a British or American actor better cast in Shakespeare's roles.[18]

On May 16, 1866 nine armed Fenians landed on Marble Island and took possession of Norwood's house until New Brunswick militia members dislodged them the following morning.[19]

The island has been identified as one of those written about in the 1604 writings of Samuel Champlain and Sieur de Monts.[2]


References

  1. ^ Dallison, Robert L. "Turning Back the Fenians New Brunswick's Last Colonial Campaign"
  2. ^ a b c Parks Canada, "West Isles Feasibility Study....a National Marine Park in the West Isles", December 1985
  3. ^ "THE BAY OF PASSAMAQUODDY" (PDF). dn790004.ca.archive.org.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference naut was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ a b Craven, Paul. "Petty Justice", pg 77 and elsewhere
  6. ^ "No. 166". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)". Government of Canada. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  9. ^ Recent Archaeological Research in the Insular Quoddy Region, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/203458?journalCode=ca
  10. ^ Turnbull, Christopher J.; Allen, Patricia M. (1988). "Reviewed work: Maritime Provinces Prehistory. National Museum of Man, James A. Tuck". Canadian Journal of Archaeology / Journal Canadien d'Archéologie. 12: 250–260. JSTOR 41102416.
  11. ^ Shaw, Christopher, "A GIS Approach to Ancestral Wabanaki Canoe Routes and Travel Times", 2016
  12. ^ Davis, Stephen A. 1978 Teacher's Cove: a Prehistoric Site on Passamaquoddy Bay. New Brunswick Archaeology ser. 1, no. 1. Historical Resources Administration, Fredericton, New Brunswick.
  13. ^ Davis, Stephen A., and Albert Ferguson, 1980 (West Isles) Deer Island Campobello Island and Other Islands. Survey Report. Manuscript on file, Historical Resources Administration,, Fredericton, New Brunswick.
  14. ^ “…gathering pebbles on a boundless shore…” — The Rum Beach Site and Intertidal Archaeology in the Canadian Quoddy Region 1, David W. Black
  15. ^ Suttie, Brent David. "Archaic Period Archaeological Research in the Interior of Southwestern New Brunswick", 2002
  16. ^ Brzezicki, Ashley. "Getting a Handle on Ground Stone", 2010
  17. ^ 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 Author Chris E. Shaw, Bates College https://scarab.bates.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1179&context=honorstheses
  18. ^ The Head Quarters May 16 1849 • Fredericton, https://www.oldnews.com/en/record?lang=en&record_id=record-10835-30801208
  19. ^ The Morning Telegraph May 19 1866 • Saint John, https://www.oldnews.com/en/record?lang=en&record_id=record-10835-30800332

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