Dowker Island

Dowker Island is an uninhabited island in Lake Saint Louis, a widening of the Saint Lawrence River south of Montreal Island, Quebec. It is in the municipality of Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot[1] which intends to preserve its natural state.[2]

Dowker Island
l'Île Dowker
Dowker Island
Geography
LocationSaint Lawrence River
Coordinates45°24′10″N 73°53′40″W
ArchipelagoHochelaga Archipelago
Area1 km2 (0.39 sq mi)
Length1 km (0.6 mi)
Width1 km (0.6 mi)
Administration
Canada
ProvinceQuebec
CityNotre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot

The island is about a kilometre in length and breadth. Its surface geology is undifferentiated till deposits.[3] It is low-lying, mostly in a 100-year flood area,[4] and contains a muskrat habitat.[5]

History
Ruins on Dowker Island

Then known as one of the îles Sainte-Geneviève (now Dowker, Madore, and Daoust),[6] the island was granted to governor of Montreal François-Marie Perrot by Jean Talon, in 1672, along with the île Perrot.[7] It was acquired in 1897[7] by Leslie Rose Dowker (unknown-1945),[8] who shortly afterward became Mayor of Sainte-Anne-du-Bout-de-l'Île, now known as Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.

In the 1940s Pointe-Claire notary public Gerard Tardiff had a large summer house on the island.[9]

It is the site of a ruined stone house as well as a former navigational aid light.[10]

In older documents,[7] as late as the 1966 topographic map of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, it is named Lynch Island.

References
  1. "Electoral Map" (PDF). Notre-Dame-de-l’Île-Perrot. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  2. PROJET DE RÈGLEMENT NUMÉRO 436-8. La Ville de Notre-Dame-de-l’Île-Perrot. 2016.
  3. "Montreal Island Map 1426A". Geological Survey of Canada. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  4. Plan_zonage + annexes 14-15-19 (PDF). Notre-dame-de-l'île-perrot. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  5. Règlements d'amendement du plan d'urbanisme (PDF). Notre-Dame-de-l’Île-Perrot. 2006. p. 105. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  6. "Bottin des Toponymes Officialisés". Notre-Dame-de-l’Île-Perrot. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  7. "Île Dowker". Commission de toponymie. Gouvernement de Québec. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  8. "Leslie Rose Dowker". Find a Grave. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  9. Taylor, Lynne (2009). Polish Orphans of Tengeru. Canada: Dundurn Press. p. 241. ISBN 978-1-55488-004-1.
  10. "Soil remediation at the site of a former navigation aid light on Dowker Island (Notre-Dame)". Government of Canada. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
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