page_title: Saint Croix Island, Maine
section_title: Boundary dispute
hierarchical_section_title: Saint Croix Island, Maine / History / Boundary dispute
caption_attribution_description: English: THIS IS A VIEW OF THE ACTUAL ISLAND LOCATED IN THE ST. CROIX RIVER BETWEEN MAINE AND NEW BRUNSWICK. PICTURE IS TAKEN FROM THE MAINE SIDE WHERE THERE IS A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INTERPRETIVE SITE
context_page_description: Saint Croix Island, long known to locals as Dochet Island, is a small uninhabited island in Maine near the mouth of the Saint Croix River that forms part of the Canada–United States border separating Maine from New Brunswick. The island is in the heart of the traditional lands of the Passamaquoddy people who, according to oral tradition, used it to store food away from the dangers of mainland animals. The island was the site of an early attempt at French colonization by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons in 1604. In 1984 it was designated by the United States Congress as Saint Croix Island International Historic Site. There is no public access to the island, but there is a visitor contact station on the U.S. mainland and a display on the Canadian mainland opposite the island.
  The 6.5 acre island measures approximately 200 yd long by 100 yd wide, and is located approximately 4 mi upstream from the mouth of the river on Passamaquoddy Bay.
context_section_description: During a boundary dispute between Britain and the U.S. in 1797, the island was deemed to be under U.S. sovereignty by a survey of the river which determined it to be on the western side of its main channel.
  Canada issued a nationally circulating twenty-five cent piece in 2004 that commemorated the island and the beginnings of Acadia there.
caption: Viewed from Maine
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