Holmes Lake (New Brunswick)

Holmes Lake is a Canadian lake in Northumberland County, New Brunswick.[1]

Holmes Lake
Holmes Lake Location of Holmes Lake in New Brunswick
Location	Southesk Parish, Northumberland County, New Brunswick
Coordinates	46°56′57″N 66°36′37″W
Type	lake
Primary outflows	Little Southwest Miramichi River
Basin countries	Canada

Main camp building and adult quarters at Pratt Camps

Holmes Lake is one of several large lakes forming the headwaters of the Little Southwest Miramichi River. It was named in 1884 for the first lumberman who had worked the area[2]

The lake was long the exclusive fishery of the Pratt family of New York. After being introduced to the area by longtime guide Henry A. Braithwaite, George Dupont Pratt constructed the log camps at the lake in 1909.[3] Ownership of the camps later passed to his son Sherman Pratt, co-founder of Marineland.

The Pratt family leased the fishing rights on this lake and the headwaters of the Little Southwest Miramichi River from the provincial government. Sherman Pratt was the founder of the Grenville Baker Boys Club (of Locust Valley, New York),[4] and allowed the use of the Pratt Camp as a summer camp for its members, approximately thirty boys each summer.