page_title: Mary's Point
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Mary's Point / History
caption_attribution_description: English: The former Dominion Building, now serving as part of the facilities of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
context_page_description: Mary's Point is a 12 square kilometres wetland in Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. It is at the head of the Bay of Fundy, just outside the small community of Harvey and approximately 40 km south of Moncton. Designated a Ramsar wetland of international importance on May 24, 1982, it is also part of the Fundy biosphere reserve established in 2007, which also contains the Shepody Bay wetland. It was also the first Canadian site in the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve, as part of the Bay of Fundy Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve. It is within the Shepody Bay National Wildlife Area, which is administered by the Canadian Wildlife Service.
  Mary's Point is an important staging area for shorebirds migrating from the Canadian subarctic to South America during the fall, supporting up to two million semipalmated sandpipers annually, or nearly 75% of the global population of this species, as well as millions of birds of other species.
  Approximately 940 ha of the intertidal mudflats are under jurisdiction to the province of New Brunswick.
context_section_description: Mary's Point was a sandstone quarry which in the nineteenth century produced brownish-grey and brownish-red dimension stone (termed Mary's Point Grey and Mary's Point Red, respectively.) used throughout eastern North America as far away as Philadelphia and New York (the Bethesda Terrace in Central Park is an example using Mary's Point stone). The Mary's Point quarry yielded about 4,000 tons of stone annually, valued for its durability and workability. Geologically, the bedrock is a continuation of Grindstone Island, situated nearby to the east in Shepody Bay. An important associate of the quarry, at one time called the Albert Freestone Company, was George Lang, a builder responsible for several notable Halifax structures using Mary's Point stone. The quarry was opened for the last time in 1987 to provide stone used in the restoration of the former Dominion Building in Halifax, now the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. In Halifax St. Mary's stone was also used on the Welsford-Parker Monument (1857), the Halifax Court House (1858-63), and The Halifax Club (1862).
caption: The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia was built of Mary's Point sandstone.
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