Welcome to Entry Island ...
Although we found mention of Entry Island during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Entry Island was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..
We've added Entry Island to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Entry Island, please Contact Us.
A typical abbreviation for Entry Island: Entry Is. (in Canada, 'Isld.' is the more common abbreviation.)
Time Zone: The area where we believe that Entry Island might be (or was) located is in the Eastern Standard Time Zone (EST) and does not observe daylight saving time. The time zone in French: EST- Heure Normale de l'Est (HNE).
Area Codes for Entry Island: 418, 367 & 581<2>
Communities near Entry Island ...
We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Entry Island.
- Les Iles de la Madeleine
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- L'Etang du Nord
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Fatima
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fatima
- Havre aux Maisons
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Cap aux Meules
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Grande Entree
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Bassin
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bassin
- Havre Aubert
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- La Baie
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Baie
- Gros Cap
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gros Cap
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past Entry Island and then turned west". While Entry Island could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Entry Island as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that Entry Island could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 418 code has been Overlayed with one of the following codes: 367 or 581. New phone numbers in the Entry Island area will be assigned with one of these codes: 418, 367 or 581. As a result, placing a call in the Entry Island area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number). |