# History of Islands & Islets in the Bay of Fundy, Charlotte County, New Brunswick/Chapter 7

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CHAPTER VII RECAPITULATORY AND CONCLUSIV
N closing the present history of the principal Islands of the Bay of Fundy, in the County of Charlotte, in the Province of New Bruns wick, and the Dominion of Canada, a reca% pitulation may be indulged in, without subjecting the author to the charge of redundancy. few minor omissions, too, may find their record in this chapter, to as much purpose as if they had appeared in their regular order. The population of Deer Island, Indian Island and Campobello ought to have been stated under the proper head. It is not yet too late to supply the omission. When the census was taken in 1871 there were in the
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parish of West Isles (which includes Deer Island, Indian Island and adjacent islets) 299 families a total population of 1,556 815 of them being males and 741 females. Campobello contains a population of 1,073 males 571, females 502. The number of families on the island in 1871 was 202.
THE BAY OF FUND"? omitted in enumerating points connected with the history of our islands. The pen of the historian of North America, of whatever age or nation, has never failed to chronicle the wonderful tides, which of themselves are sufficient to entitle this bay, on the page of history, to the fame of being the most extraordinary known in the world. When Cabot in 1498 when the adventurous Frenchman DeLevy in 1518 when Sieur de Pont Grave in Is too important to be
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1603 when Champlain and De Monts in 1605 and away back in the centuries of the past, when the Micmac or Algonquin Indian paddled his birch canoe along the ​Page:History of islands & islets in the Bay of Fundy, Charlotte County, New Brunswick; (IA historyofislands00lori).pdf/112 ​Page:History of islands & islets in the Bay of Fundy, Charlotte County, New Brunswick; (IA historyofislands00lori).pdf/113 ​Page:History of islands & islets in the Bay of Fundy, Charlotte County, New Brunswick; (IA historyofislands00lori).pdf/114 ​Page:History of islands & islets in the Bay of Fundy, Charlotte County, New Brunswick; (IA historyofislands00lori).pdf/115 ​Page:History of islands & islets in the Bay of Fundy, Charlotte County, New Brunswick; (IA historyofislands00lori).pdf/116 ​Page:History of islands & islets in the Bay of Fundy, Charlotte County, New Brunswick; (IA historyofislands00lori).pdf/117 ​Page:History of islands & islets in the Bay of Fundy, Charlotte County, New Brunswick; (IA historyofislands00lori).pdf/118 ​Page:History of islands & islets in the Bay of Fundy, Charlotte County, New Brunswick; (IA historyofislands00lori).pdf/119 ​Page:History of islands & islets in the Bay of Fundy, Charlotte County, New Brunswick; (IA historyofislands00lori).pdf/120 ​Page:History of islands & islets in the Bay of Fundy, Charlotte County, New Brunswick; (IA historyofislands00lori).pdf/121 ​Page:History of islands & islets in the Bay of Fundy, Charlotte County, New Brunswick; (IA historyofislands00lori).pdf/122 ​Page:History of islands & islets in the Bay of Fundy, Charlotte County, New Brunswick; (IA historyofislands00lori).pdf/123 ​Page:History of islands & islets in the Bay of Fundy, Charlotte County, New Brunswick; (IA historyofislands00lori).pdf/124 ​but begin to think well of it, look into it, appreciate the necessity, and collecting all their electoral strength together. use it wisely and well, elect their man, call him out by requisition as the man of their choice, and send him forth from that political focus, the ballot-box, wearing the garland of victory, to be their mouth-piece and their representative on the floor of the Legislature of their country.
There is an end to all things here below sooner or later; and on counting our pages of manuscript, we are admonished that the end of our little history draweth nigh. Many hours have passed pleasantly in compilation. And yet they are remembered with regret. Regret that the work has been so imperfectly performed; so much left undone that ought to have been done, and rice versa. The author is neither ignorant nor indifferent to the critical crucible it has to pass through, and yet he will not so cringe with fear and trembling as to beg of critics to be merciful. Like, rather, the stern battlement of nature's rocks which face defiantly the lashings of the merciless sea, he looks unmoved upon the sneering lip and would-be caustic pen.
Having no pecuniary equivalent in view—free from that consideration—his one ardent, deep, sincere desire is that the little brief history of the islands treated of, all unpretentions as it is, will tend to make those islands better known—will give them a place, "a local habitation and a name"—among the many portions of British North America, confederated as they are into one great and rising nationality, known by the name of The Dominion of Canada.
The writer has not drawn upon imagination to picture by pen sketches the loveliness, the picturesqueness, the beauty of those islands as they lay out and rise up among the waves of the Bay of Fundy. They need but to be seen to be admired. The words of the poet Cowper are applicable to them:
And, now to close, let the pen of Colonial pa​triotism write, and the heart of Canadian patriotism feel that
will, in the next decade of years, judging from the past, afford a yet richer field for interesting and gratifying reminiscences.
THE END.