Islands of New Brunswick: Living Between the Tides

New Brunswick's Bay of Fundy and Northumberland Strait are home to numerous offshore islands. While some are little more than wild and beautiful fog-enshrouded sandbars, others, like Grand Manan, are major landscapes that dominated the outer bays. But the sheer remoteness of islands detached from the mainland are intriguing to most people and serve to create vivid images of lonely and dangerous wind-swept sites where storms, tides, and shipwrecks abound. From Grand Manan and Hospital Island in Passamaquoddy Bay, Partridge Island near Saint John, Grindstone Island in Shepody Bay, Shediac and Indian Island in Northumberland Strait, the Miramichi Islands, as well as Miscou and Heron Island is Bay of Chaleur, author Allison Mitcham writes passionately and personally about the fascinating natural and human history associated with these marine outposts. While some New Brunswick islands have reverted to uninhabited status, others have managed to remain thriving communities. Portraits of each island contain vivid descriptions and remarkable true stories about the island's past as well as facts and legends detailing unique features about these unusual offshore sites.