McNabs Island Provincial Park Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society McNabs Island Provincial Park McNabs and Lawlor Islands are located in the mouth of Halifax harbour. There have been glitches and detours, but progress is being made. Since their formation in 1990 the Friends of McNabs Island Society has been in the front of the efforts to protect and have these islands become a park. They have produced a book Discover McNabs Island , available through bookstores. Park in the Making revised in July 1997, available on line.
Visitation is discouraged.
Deer can often be seen in an old field on the nearest part of Lawlor. A planning session in 1974 recommended the islands as a regional park, and in 1983 the province assumed responsibility for making it happen. Devils Island , a bit further out, and mostly privately owned, was added to the plan at that time. In 1991 a sewage treatment plant proposal for Halifax delayed the process. When the park process was getting back on track in 1995, the local MP triggered a review of the federal intent to transfer the land.