Rural Routes Prince Edward Island

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62 VICTORIA ST
Kensington, Prince Edward Island
C0B 1M0

Prince Edward Island Tourism Region : Green Gables Shore

Description From Owner:

Named for Abbé Courtin, missionary to the Micmacs in the area 1731-1732. He was drowned returning to Louisbourg 1732.
De la Roque 1752: 'To the west-south-west of the Ile aux Sauvages lies a second island, which had been granted to the late Monsieur Courtin, priest and missionary to the Indians, from which fact it bears the name of Ile à Monsieur Courtin'.
Samuel Holland 1765 named it for Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury (1740-1821), first husband of Lady Sarah Lennox. Modern maps and charts call it Bunbury Island, with Courtin Island applied to one locally known as Little Courtin Island.
Douglas 1925 makes this island lle aux Sauvages, but that may apply to Ram Island at the entrance to Malpeque Harbour; besides, Little Courtin Island is not WSW from Courtin Island, but is SE of it. In Micmac Gtijimenigog, 'chief island” (Pacifique 1934)

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Nearby:	Little Courtin Island, 2km Ram Island (Malpeque Bay), 3km Belmont Provincial Park, 4km Belmont Lot 16, 6km Grog Island, 5km Mary Fraser Island, 8km Lower Hamilton, 6km Bird Island, 9km Fish Island, 8km Hamilton, 7km North St. Eleanors, 9km Hog Island, 10km Lower Malpeque, 7km Cabot Provincial Park, 8km Malpeque, 7km Birch Hill, 8km Low Point, 9km	Slemon Park, 11km Central Lot 16, 8km Rosehill, 9km Sherbrooke, 11km Princetown / Point, 8km Indian River, 9km Mills Point, 10km St. Eleanors, 12km Lennox Island, 10km Bayside, 8km Port Hill, 10km Lennox Island 1, 11km Travellers Rest, 12km Lower New Annan, 12km Lot 18, 9km Southwest Lot 16, 10km Malpeque Bay, 10km	New Annan, 13km Miscouche, 12km Green Provincial Park, 11km Lot 17, 13km Clermont, 12km Reads Corner, 14km Summerside, 14km Arlington, 10km Linkletter, 14km Grand River, 10km Wilmot (Summerside), 15km Lower Darnley, 11km Linkletter Provincial Park, 15km Lot 19, 13km Darnley, 11km Seabrook, 14km

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