Partridge Island 
The pier was built several times before it 
could be made to stay there. It was Sir 
Charles Tupper who persevered, and when 
worsted by wind and water tried again and 
again until he got it anchored firm and fast. 
It cost a great deal of money, and in memory 
of Sir Charles's many defeats, the pier up to 
the present day is called Tupper's Snag, though 
it would seem only fair now to re-christen it 
Tupper's Triumph. 
It was a disappointment to learn that the 
pier at Partridge Island was only thirty-five 
feet high. We had come there for the purpose 
of being amazed at the sight of a sixty-feet tide, 
but how could this happen in the presence of 
a pier with a paltry height of thirty-five feet ? 
We had heard wonderful accounts of the 
performances of Fundy's tides, but wherever 
we went the highest tides, the rips and bores, 
those wonderful cross-currents and wave-like 
rushings in of the water, were somewhere else. 
We went to Partridge Island, fondly hoping 
for the tides we had been promised, only to 
find a thirty-five-feet pier ! 
Still, we could not complain of the scale 
upon which the tides were planned there ; and 
