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New Brunswick Tourism Region : Fundy Shore
Description From Owner:
- The community was known as Spinneys Corner and Riordans Corner before it took its present name from nearby Lake Utopia in 1902.
- The naming of the lake was facetious when Capt. Peter Clinch discovered that lands granted to him lay beneath the waters of a large lake.
- Clinch is reported to have observed that the impossibility of acquiring the grants was comparable to the impossibility of achieving the perfection and abundance ascribed as the ideal of utopia.
- Clinch, who was given 'a reserve to make good the deficiency caused by the Lake Eutopia,' subsequently served as MLA for Charlotte County from 1785 to 1795.
- The Passamaquoddy called the lake Meskeequagum, 'grassy lake,' with reference to thick and abundant plant growth at its outlet.
- Since the 1800s, there have been reports every few years of the sighting of a monster in Lake Utopia.
- Crypto zoologist Norma Stewart said enough credible people had told her about seeing the monster that 'I really don't doubt that there is some creature.'
- She believes the creature is migratory and travels out to sea via the deep channel that connects the lake to the Atlantic. Non-believers argue the monster is nothing more than fish such as large eels or otter or beaver.
- With permission from 'New Brunswick Place Names' David E. Scott 2009
Address of this page: http://nb.ruralroutes.com/Utopia