Heron Island (New Brunswick)

Abbé Joseph-Mathurin Bourg (practising in Carleton), first Acadian priest, was given the island and the land now called Charlo by Sir Richard Hughes, 2nd Baronet, Governor (on file in Louisbourg), in the capital, Halifax in thanks for his mediation efforts between the Mi'gmaks and the white settlers.

The Mi'kmaq called the island těsǔnǔgěk,[1] but no longer resided on the island year long by the time the settlers arrived, except for a Mr. Bernard who spent summers there with his family, who made baskets from ash branches, in the 1930s.

The first settlers arrived on the island around 1850 and they eventually built a school (last teacher was Miss Myrtle Cook).

They could fish for cod, mackerel, salmon, lobster, and they hunted geese and ducks and even chicken hawks.

Georgette Backs died November 10, 2017, in Mississauga, Ontario, and her ashes are scattered on Heron Island.