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"Manan" is a corruption of mun-an-ook or man-an-ook, meaning "island place" or "the island", from the Maliseet-Passamaquoddy-Penobscot First Nations who, according to oral history, used Grand Manan and its surrounding islands as a safe place for the elderly Passamaquoddy during winter months and as a sacred burial place (ook means "people of").
Grand Manan is a geographic parish in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada, [2] comprising one village and part of a rural district; the rural district portion was formerly a local service district (LSD); both of which are members of the Southwest New Brunswick Service Commission (SNBSC). [3]
Seal Cove is a community on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. Formerly a separate village, it was amalgamated into the newly formed village of Grand Manan in 1995. Formerly a separate village, it was amalgamated into the newly formed village of Grand Manan in 1995.
The lighthouse was built in 1879 at Fish Fluke Point on Ross Island, a tidal island that forms the eastern shore of Grand Harbour on Grand Manan island in the Bay of Fundy. Construction cost $1,050, in addition to $150 for the land on which it was built. The square wooden tower had an attached dwelling for the light keeper's family.
North Head is a community on the island of Grand Manan, New Brunswick. Formerly a separate village, it was amalgamated into the newly formed village of Grand Manan in 1995. [ 1 ] North Head is the southern terminus of the Blacks Harbour to Grand Manan Island Ferry .
The Anchorage Provincial Park is a public park located on the south-east coast of Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada.The island, the largest in the Bay of Fundy, is also the primary island in the Grand Manan Archipelago, sitting at the boundary between the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of Maine.
Whale Cove is a cove on Grand Manan Island in North Head, New Brunswick, Canada. It is located in the northern part of the island, on the Bay of Fundy , near North Head . The cove's once busy fishing wharf was destroyed in the Groundhog gale of 1976.
The wreck of the merchant ship Lord Ashburton in 1857 on the northern tip of Grand Manan, with the loss of 21 lives, led the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly to call for "a Light House to be erected on the Northern Head of Grand Manan". [4] The site chosen was a headland called the "Swallow's Tail" near the entrance to the harbour at North ...
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