Beaubears Island

Beaubears Island
Map
Geography
LocationMiramichi, New Brunswick
Administration
Additional information
Official websitewww.beaubearsisland.ca/
Official nameBeaubears Island Shipbuilding National Historic Site of Canada
Designated2001
Official nameBoishébert National Historic Site of Canada
Designated1930

Beaubears Island (French: Île Boishébert) is an island at the confluence of the Northwest Miramichi and Southwest Miramichi Rivers near Miramichi, New Brunswick. The island is most famous for being the site of an Acadian refugee camp during the French and Indian War. The camp was under the command of leader of the Acadian resistance to the expulsion, Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot.

The island is home to two National Historic Sites:

  1. Beaubears Island Shipbuilding National Historic Site[1] and
  2. Boishébert National Historic Site[2]

The shipbuilding site occupies the eastern end of the island, while the Boishébert site comprises the rest of the island and adjacent Wilson's Point. The Wilson's Point portion is a New Brunswick provincial historic site, owned by the province and, while not national park land, Wilson's Point is part of the designated National Historic Site. With the exception of Wilson's Point, both sites are administered by Parks Canada in collaboration with the Friends of Beaubears Island. The sites retain 200-year-old Eastern White Pines; thus the parks are significant from the perspectives of both human and natural history.[3]

  1. ^ Beaubears Island Shipbuilding. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  2. ^ Boishébert. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  3. ^ Boishébert and Beaubears Island Shipbuilding National Historic Sites of Canada, J. Leonard O'Brien Memorial, http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/nb/boishebert/index_E.asp Archived 2007-02-08 at the Wayback Machine