Coquette Island

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Coquette Island, now known as Dead Man’s Island, is a small, historically renamed island whose current name reflects a darker or more ominous chapter in its past.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Coquette Island canonical 2

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf island
adjacentTo Melville Island
Northwest Arm
burialOf American prisoners of war
Black Refugees
British military personnel
French prisoners of war
Royal Navy seamen
coordinateLocation 44.640°N 63.585°W
country Canada
distanceToShore approximately 150 metres
formerName Coquette Island
governedBy Halifax Regional Council
hasAccess boat only
hasAlternativeName Dead Man Island
linked to: Dead Man’s Island

Deadman’s Island
linked to: Dead Man’s Island
hasArea about 1.5 hectares
hasConservationStatus protected municipal park
hasCulturalDepiction subject of commemorative ceremonies
subject of local historical research
hasCurrentName Dead Man’s Island
hasHeritageDesignation municipal heritage site
hasMemorial War of 1812 memorial
memorial to prisoners of war
hasSignificance commemoration of war dead
military history of Halifax
hasTopographicFeature low wooded terrain
rocky shoreline
hasUse cemetery site
military burial ground
hasVegetation mixed coastal forest
heritageDesignationBy Halifax Regional Municipality
historicallyAssociatedWith Melville Island military prison
Napoleonic Wars
War of 1812
locatedIn Atlantic Ocean
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Halifax
Nova Scotia
locatedInBodyOfWater Halifax Harbour
locatedInTimeZone Atlantic Time Zone
nearbyCity Halifax
notableEvent designation as heritage site in 2000s
ownedBy Halifax Regional Municipality
partOf Mi’kma’ki
usedFor burial of military personnel
burial of prisoners of war

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dead Man’s Island hasFormerName Coquette Island
Coquette Island formerName Coquette Island