Popes Island is an undeveloped island in the West Isles Parish of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada, where the Bay of Fundy enters Passamaquoddy Bay. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 490, 497, 500, and 501 at same site.
As Warren Hatheway was unsuccessful in his bid to be granted Bar Island off the northern shore of Deer Island against the wishes of Thomas Farrell, between 1810-1817 he was awarded a grant of six small nearby islets including Hardwood Island, Popes Island, Nubble Island, Dinner Island Simpsons Island and Fish Island.https://archives.gnb.ca/en-ca/land-grants/view/17801/20120
There is a seven-fathom patch between Pope's and Chocolate Cove.Sailing Directions for Nova Scotia, 1952, US Navy Hydrographic Office
In 1832, commissioner of Crown Lands Thomas Baillie wrote that the island had "very little value".
In December 1985, a study by Parks Canada assessed the island's value as $3,600.Parks Canada, "West Isles Feasibility Study....a National Marine Park in the West Isles", December 1985
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