Beckwith Island

Beckwith Island is the eastern of three islands in southeastern Georgian Bay in Ontario, Canada. Beckwith Island and the attached "Little Beckwith" are part of the Beausoleil First Nation.[1]

Ferry terminal in Cedar Point (Tiny, Ontario) to Christian Island, with Beckwith Island on the right.

Geography

The island's highest elevation is 226 meters (741 feet) above sea level. Like its populated neighbour Christian Island to the west, and Hope Island to the northwest, the uninhabited island is part of an Ojibwa reserve.[2] On the mainland, Cedar Point lies directly south of the island and Thunder Beach is located to the southeast of Beckwith Island.

Flora and fauna

The island is an ecologically sensitive island of over 800 acres (324 ha), featuring sandy beaches and dunes, juniper bushes, as well as the rare and protected three-pronged awn grass, plus forests of oak, maple, birch and conifer trees and no development of any kind except for simple outhouses to serve boaters, campers and picnickers.

Accessibility

Beckwith Island is undeveloped, though there are two boat anchorage points. One on the north and another on the south side of the islands where the narrows of the two islands meet. Sandy beaches are at both anchorage points.[3]

References
  1. "Missing boater found dead near Beausoleil First Nation". Barrie. 2022-09-04. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  2. Thompson, Thomas S. (1878). Thompson's Coast Pilot and Sailing Directions for the North-western Lakes: From Ogdensburg to Buffalo, Chicago, Green Bay, Georgian Bay and Lake Superior, Including All the River Navigation ... Also a Description of Lights and Light-houses ... Harbors Completed, and in Progress of Construction ... Cor. and Rev. from the Original Copies of Thompson's Coast Pilot and the Latest U.S. Surveys, with the Explanation of Nautical Terms. W.A. Scripps.
  3. Barnet, James (1887). Barnet's Coast Pilot for the Lakes, on Both Shores: Michigan, Superior, Huron, St. Clair, Erie and Ontario; Green Bay, Georgian Bay, Grand and Little Traverse Bays; Straits of Mackinaw; the Rivers St. Mary, St. Clair, Detroit, Niagara and St. Laurence. Courses and Distances, Sailing Directions, Etc. Rearranged, Rev. and Additions Made from the Latest United States Coast Survey Charts. Also, a Description of All the Lights and Lighthouses. With a Valuable Appendix, and an Alphabetically-arranged Index of the Names of Places.

44.8568°N 80.1125°W / 44.8568; -80.1125


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