Pendleton Island
Native name: Um-kub-ahumk' A Bar, Nearly Covered[1] | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Bay of Fundy |
| Area | 120[2][3] ha (300 acres) |
| Administration | |
Canada | |
| Province | New Brunswick |
| County | Charlotte |
| Parish | West Isles Parish |
Pendleton Island (formerly called Doyle's Island[4]) is an undeveloped island in the West Isles Parish of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada, where the Bay of Fundy enters Passamaquoddy Bay.[5][6][7]
Geography
[edit]The island has a mixture of spruce, birch, mountain ash and red maple, balsam fir and tamarack trees.[8]
The island has a 500' cliff that historically drew thrillseekers to attempt to climb.[4] The island contains a lagoon, and its chief bay has a steep gravel barrier beach.[9]
History
[edit]It was named for three Loyalist brothers Stephen, Thomas and Gideon Pendleton who settled the island.[10][1][11] A 1796 deed shows Thomas Pendleton purchased "Hardwood Island" from Thomas Doyle for £150, which is presumed to reference Pendleton's Island rather than the currently-named Hardwood Island a few kilometres away.[12]
There is a geodetic triangulation station on a high bare hill on the northwestern part of the island.[13]
In November 1893, Luther Lambert of Lord's Cove married Millie Pendleton at the home of her father, Ward Pendleton, on the island.[14]
From at least 1910-1916, Calvin Pendleton and his wife Theresa Holland lived on the family including with their daughter Arlene.[15]
The Pendleton family continued living on the island, across two homesteads raising crops and cattle until approximately 1935 when ownership was split between nearly 150 descendents of the deceased Ward Pendleton.[16] The Nature Conservancy of Canada located 114 of the descendants who agreed to sign over their share of the island, as did Dr. Herb Mitton, leading to its establishment as a nature sanctuary and one of the Conservancy's largest properties.[17][16]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b A monograph of the place-nomenclature of the province of New Brunswick, https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.12511/96
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20210926150644/https://events.natureconservancy.ca/al-event/the-great-fundy-cleanup-2017/
- ^ "Cobscook Bibliography". Cobscook Bay Resource Center.
- ^ a b Thompson and Martin, s:The Smiling Isle of Passamaquoddy, 1908
- ^ Thomas, M. L. H., J. A. Stevens, et al. (1990). Shallow marine, littoral and terrestrial associations of Pendleton Island, New Brunswick, Publ. Sci. NAT. New Brunswick Museum (No. 9), New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick, (Canada).
- ^ McAslan, Alison. "A Floristic Survey of Pendleton Island, New Brunswick"
- ^ Clayden, S.R., "Pendleton Island flora.", 1991
- ^ "Where we work". Nature Conservancy Canada. Retrieved April 16, 2025.
- ^ Tides of Change Across the Gulf - Chapter 7, https://www.gulfofmaine.org/council/publications/GOMSummitAppendix2.pdf
- ^ https://ia601305.us.archive.org/33/items/brianpendletonhi01pend/brianpendletonhi01pend.pdf
- ^ The exodus of the loyalists from Penobscot and the loyalist settlements at Passamaquoddy
- ^ Pendleton, Everett Hall (April 10, 1956). "Early New England Pendletons; with some account of the three groups who took the name Pembleton, and notices of other Pendletons of later origin in the United States". [South Orange? N.J.] – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Triangulation in Maine", U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918
- ^ The Christian : [Vol. 11, no. 1 (Nov. 1893)], https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06151_121/8
- ^ The Beacon : Vol. XXVII, No. 52 (June 24, 1916)
- ^ a b Phillips, Regis. "Volunteers wanted to beautify Pendleton Island".
- ^ "Family donates New Brunswick island shoreline to charity". CBC News New Brunswick. June 30, 2006. Retrieved April 16, 2025.
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