Partridge Island (Saint John County)

During the American Revolution, in 1780, six British troops from Major Timothy Hierlihy's corps, under the command of Lieut.

In the early and mid-1980s, memorials were built by the Saint John Jewish Community, the Loyal Orange Lodge, the Partridge Island Research Project, and the Partridge Island & Harbour Heritage Inc., a company that was registered in 1988 and dissolved in 2004.

[4] The memorials were dedicated to the Protestant, Catholic and Jewish immigrants buried in the six island graveyards.

This name is in reference to the belief that the island was created when Glooscap smashed the dam that "Big Beaver" had built.

At the Reversing Falls Rapids a piece of the dam was swept in the rush of water to the mouth of the harbour where it came to rest to form the island.

The 19th century version refers to Partridge Island in Minas Basin in Nova Scotia.

A signal station was soon located on the island and it was used for many years to alert the harbour to vessels approaching from the Bay of Fundy.

The island was also home to dozens of island families over the years, from lightkeepers such as Captain Samuel Duffy, James Wilson, Albert Smith, Charles Mitchell and Thomas Furness, to hospital staff such as Doctors George and William Harding, hospital stewards Thomas McGowan, Fred and Jim Hargrove, and teachers for the island's school such as Jean MacCullum and Forbes Elliott.

Wayne Long, MP for Saint John, has proposed that a wharf be built at the site and that boat tours would go to and from it.