Wood Islands is a rural farming and fishing community located in southeastern Queens County, Prince Edward Island on the Northumberland Strait. It takes its name from several small forested islands, then located several hundred metres offshore in the Northumberland Strait.[1][2] The community of Wood Islands falls within the larger PEI Township of Lot 62, which had a population in 2011 of 470 residents, a 13% decrease from the 2006 census count of 540.[3] While the named islands are located on maps by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin: Karte Bellin, 1744: 'I a Bova' and Louis Franquet: Cartes Franquet, 1751: 'Isle a Bois', it was Samuel Johannes Holland who correctly surveyed and depicted the islands, about their basin. The 'European' settlement of Wood Islands began in 1803, but saw its most noted arrivals in 1807 with the arrival, after wintering in Pinette, of a large party of Scottish settlers from the Spencer.[4][5][6]
- ^ Douglas M.A., R. (1925). Place Names of Prince Edward Island: With Meanings. Vol. Geographical Board of Canada. Ottawa: Dominion of Canada: F. A. Acland. p. 55.
- ^ Rayburn, Alan (1973). Geographical names of Prince Edward Island. Vol. Toponymy Study No1 (Department of Energy Mines and Resources ed.). Ottawa: Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names. p. 129. ISBN 0-660-01740-7.
- ^ "Lot 62 Census Profile". Census Canada. Government of Canada. 8 February 2012. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ http://www.linneberg.com/skye/polly.html List Compiled: Karen Linneberg
- ^ http://www540.pair.com/buchanan/genes/docs/polly.htm List Compiled: 1903 Malcolm A. Macqueen
- ^ See Sheets: 2001 at http://www.islandregister.com/colonsay_selkirk.html