[5] Chaffey himself suggested there may have been earlier French settlers on the island as he had seen the ruins of a stone chimney, and clearings in the woods for a European-style garden and linear planting of currants and berries.

[3] On the second day of the War of 1812, three schooners were moored at Indian Island and a privateer ship approached sending out two smaller boats of armed men with the intent of capturing them.

Following the war, Thomas Wyer was appointed Deputy Treasurer for West Isles & Campobello, with his office to be situated on Indian Island, succeeded by Richard Armstrong who built the large Customs House on Little Thrum Cap Islet.

Jouett, for whom an islet is now named, later came to occupy the same position overseeing cargoes of fish and lumber en route to the West Indies and returning with sugar, molasses and rum.

[3] During the 1866 Fenian Raids, a group of Irish-American militants led by Bernard Doran Killian, a colleague of D'arcy McGee, crossed to Indian Island to demand Dixon surrender the British flag that flew over the Customs House.

[3] Following Confederation, Indian Island remained a central hub serving as the sole polling station for the region including Grand Manan for at least four elections.

[9] In 1998, the southeast corner of Indian Island was the site of only the second-ever find of a fossil from the rodentia Giant Beaver, a damaged upper-right incisor tooth.