User Talk: New Yathrib - Fundy Historian

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P.S. - I notice you use bare links in references sometimes, not a big deal really, but you might like Citer ↗ if you haven't come across it yet. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 16:10, 19 April 2025 (UTC)
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thumb|1796 map by David Owen ↗. ↗
I'm just gonna ping User:MediaKyle, User:HazelAB, User:G. Timothy Walton and ask for their help....which way do you suppose is "North" on this bizarre map by David Owen in 1796 lol? It seems important as he indicates French settlements (word after French?) not otherwise known - but yeah...would love help figuring it out. New Yathrib - Fundy Historian (talk) 07:43, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

:Well I see Deer Island at the middle-right, and the big island below that is Campobello. It seems like "north" would be pointing towards the upper right corner, from where I'm standing, but the proportions of this map are all out of whack so it's hard to tell. Is that supposed to be Indian Island under Deer Island? And what the hell is Newman's Ledge? MediaKyle (talk) 12:41, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
::"French Sett^ts" is the abbreviation.
::Newmans Ledge would probably be Popes Island, the +2 being Sandy Ledge and Green Island, both on the same rise as Popes Island.
::Magnetic declination at the time was slightly over 13° west of north in 1796 compared to 15.6º west of north today, but the gradient was tighter.https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/historical-declination/ ↗
::I rotated the map 25° counterclockwise and Marble Island (formerly Indian Island, L^r(?) Attirail I. on Owen's map) lined up with the GeoNB Map Viewer's grid north. I don't know what that translates to compared to true north. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 14:14, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
:::L'atterail is definitely a former name of Indian Island, and the three circles under it would be Jouett/Cherry/Thrumcap, but this map appears to put it "correctly oriented" but between the western edge of Deer and Campobello which obviously doesn't exist - I think Deer and Campobello are rotated incorrectly - and Skutik/St Croix Rier is way up on the top-left throwing me for a loop because I wonder if the map "curves" like a fisheye a bit - though Walton has a good point that magnetic north has been shifting over the centuries. Also possible since this is before the 1810-ish commission or whenever it was, that he's mislabeled the wrong river as the St Croix. Is the large one to the left of Latterail/Indian (Cochrane's PG?) supposed to be Pendleton/Macs? Why is St. Croix Island nowhere near his labeled St Croix River or even the mainland? New Yathrib - Fundy Historian (talk) 06:28, 17 June 2026 (UTC)
::::I must have missed a step in my calculation - rotated 65° counterclockwise, not 25°. That's what I get for going down a rabbithole before breakfast or painkillers.
::::Three islands are easy to place - Navy, Ministers, Spoon in Oak Bay, and he labelled St. Croix as a French settlement; the peninsula separating Oak Bay from the mouth of the St. Croix (Schoodic) is also there. The islands in Cobscook Bay were disputed until 1817 and the British initially claimed it was the mouth of the St. Croix in the boundary negotiations before that. The island he has labelled St. Croix is Treat and Dudley Islands, which are joined by a tidal bar. The large island to the left of Deer and L'Attirail is Moose Island at the mouth of Cobscook Bay - he gets Johnson Cove on its eastern shore correct but the area to the south looks like he guessed it.
::::Owen's distances are way off, possibly explained by not understanding the currents' effect on his actual travel distance, assuming he observed them himself and didn't wait so long that memory faded. I'd agree the map curves, but the rivers and islands are correct despite the labels.
::::And that's enough pre-breakfast/painkillers rabbithole for today. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 15:07, 17 June 2026 (UTC)
:::::Awesome, thanks for the help definitely - I was surprised to have not stumbled over the map before now myself since there's not much of Ganong's I haven't at least skimmed - I appreciate that you're much better with the American islands than I am; may need to create something similar to {{tl|NBFundyIslands}} and {{tl|NSFundyIslands}} for Maine eventually...let me know if you do, I'll definitely help out where I'm able. Are you able to read what's he's naming Moose? So many places here seem to have names I haven't seen before, and the French settlements markings are sometimes in places I understood there to have not been French settlement so I'm definitely intrigued. New Yathrib - Fundy Historian (talk) 16:28, 17 June 2026 (UTC)
::::::It looks like he marked a French settlement at Cochrans Point and gave no name for the island.
::::::I don't know much, really, just worked forward from the boundary settlement in 1817 and checked Ganong to confirm where the original British claim of the St. Croix River was. The islands were just names to me until I had a reason to check for map correspondence. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 23:18, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Edits to CHCO-TV

Hi there - I'm the Senior Technical Producer at CHCO Television here in Saint Andrews. The CHCO-TV station manager and I have taken notice of the many edits you have made to the page. We are glad to see that someone has taken such an interest in the page, but we are concerned about some of the edits you have made, which have removed a lot of the history and background information of the station.

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