Bonshaw is a former rural municipality in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island within Queens County.

[2] The Strathgartney Homestead in Bonshaw, the remnants of a former estate, was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1996 in recognition of the absentee landowner problem that persisted in Prince Edward Island until the passage of the Land Purchase Act of 1875.

[4] The province designated a rock in Bonshaw with etchings from the 1880s as a heritage site on February 2, 2015.

[6] Bonshaw is located near the province's south shore on the Northumberland Strait.

[citation needed] The freshwater portion of the river at the tidehead offers trout fishing.