Dowker Island facts for kids
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l'Île Dowker
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 Dowker Island
Location in Southern Quebec
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| Location | Saint Lawrence River |
| Coordinates | 45°24′10″N 73°53′40″W / 45.40278°N 73.89444°W |
| Archipelago | Hochelaga Archipelago |
| Area | 1 km2 (0.39 sq mi) |
| Length | 1 km (0.6 mi) |
| Width | 1 km (0.6 mi) |
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| Province | Quebec |
| City | Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot |
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 which intends to preserve its natural state.
The island is about a kilometre in length and breadth. Its surface geology is undifferentiated till deposits. It is low-lying, mostly in a 100-year flood area, and contains a muskrat habitat.
History
Then known as one of the îles Sainte-Geneviève (now Dowker, Madore, and Daoust), the island was granted to governor of Montreal François-Marie Perrot by Jean Talon, in 1672, along with the île Perrot. It was acquired in 1897 by Leslie Rose Dowker (unknown-1945), 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.
It is the site of a ruined stone house as well as a former navigational aid light.
In older documents, as late as the 1966 topographic map of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, it is named Lynch Island.
See also
In Spanish: Isla Dowker para niños
