McNabs and Lawlor Islands

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Preliminary Management Concept

This preliminary management concept reflects the original concept developed by the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources (then Lands and Forsets) in 1985, which anticipated that McNabs and Lawlor islands would be managed as provincial park. This concept is shown here to focus public thought and discussion regarding an appropriate future land use strategy for McNabs and Lawlor islands as parkland. The final concept will be adapted to respond to ideas received through the public review process.

Map: Preliminary Management Concept - available soon

"When Peter McNab - Peter the First, as some called him afterwards - came to Halifax, the island lay in the harbour entrance like a green cork in the neck of a green bottle; a cork twisted in a crude 8 and somewhat shrunken in width, so that it did not pretend to stop the mouth of the bottle but left passage for a stream of salt water on both sides. The Eastern Passage was a shallow, crooked, narrow, used by a few fishermen on the Dartmouth shore. Merchantmen and His Majesty's men-o'-war sailed the west channel, which ran deep and straight, with fair room for tacking. It was over a mile wide, except where a stony spit ran out from the island like a lean green finger pointed at the steep bluff across the water." From Thomas Raddall, Hangman's Beach (New York: Doubleday, 1966).

The tabloid McNabs and Lawlor Islands prepared by the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resouces and Parks Canada of Canadian Heritage in support of their Fall 1995 public consultation process.

This Internet version was prepared with permission by the Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists (FNSN) and the Friends of McNabs Island Society (FOMIS).