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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 ...
Grand Manan is a Canadian island in the Bay of Fundy, part of the province of New Brunswick.Grand Manan is also the name of an incorporated village, which includes the main island and numerous nearby islands; White Head Island, small islands near it, and Machias Seal Island are not part of the village.
In 1824 the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick passed a bill requiring that a lighthouse be built south of Grand Manan. Dangerous shoals in the area were a hazard to ships entering the Bay of Fundy en route to the port of Saint John, New Brunswick. [5]
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]
New Brunswick [a] is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces.It is bordered by Quebec to the north, Nova Scotia to the east, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the northeast, the Bay of Fundy to the southeast, and the U.S. state of Maine to the west.
The Grand Harbour Lighthouse was a Canadian lighthouse marking the entrance to Grand Harbour, Grand Manan, New Brunswick. It was built and first lit in 1879 and was decommissioned in 1963. It was severely damaged in the Groundhog Day gale of 1976 and destroyed by a gale in November 2013.
Government of New Brunswick 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 .
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 .