Names in the Flats

The Flats are full of names. Oddly, the islands seem to get short shrift: only the larger islands or groups of islands have names that I'm aware of. The channels fare better: many seem to have names if you consult enough sources. I've used old charts and new, topographical maps, placemats in restaurants, old prints of antique maps of the Flats to try to find names for places in the Flats.

Mixed in with these are dozens of other channels, unnamed, names unknown to me, or with names that are only used within families. It is not uncommon for families, or groups of families living in a small area, to have personal names for waterways, that are unrecorded elsewhere and may even conflict with names that can be found by searching a little. It's common to substitute "cut" for "highway", although this can sometimes lead to confusion. In general, people know where they're going, or they don't go there.

The Smaller Channels and Cuts

I will include commercial links if they are for companies of interest to boaters, whose main place of business is in the Flats. I will place them indented from the names, at about the right location. I also have a page where I will place links to businesses that serve boaters in the Flats , even though they may not be located directly in the Flats.

The Names

South Channel to North Channel:

• Grande Point Cut - separates Russell Island from Harsens Island

On the South Channel into Muscamoot Bay:

• Venice Hwy
• Peninsular Hwy
  • Thomas Rose (Idle Hour Yacht Club)
• Craig Hwy
• Maybury Hwy - location of the grocery store on stilts - a landmark
• Strelow Hwy
• Bedford Hwy
• Dandron Hwy
• Slocum Hwy
• Grummond Hwy
• Mervue Hwy
• Ives Hwy
• Roach Hwy

In Muscamoot Bay:

• Hurlburt Hwy - which cuts through the Muscamoot Ridge between Big and Little Muscamoot Bays

Middle Channel to Muscamoot Bay:

• Snooks Hwy - here is Brown's - another landmark in the Flats
• Canoe Hwy
• Three Rivers Hwy - Upper, Middle and Lower Branches
• Wide Cut Hwy
• Winding Hwy
• Obetz hwy
• Rogers Hwy

Middle Channel to Goose bay:

• Blind Indian Creek - is this so-named because it is a blind channel or after a blind indian?
• Little Fisher Hwy - to Fisher Bay, actually
• Big Fisher Hwy
• Chene Hwy
• Broad Cut Hwy (not to be confused with Broad Cut)
• West Branch Hwy
• Savage Hwy
• Sears Hwy
• Log Hwy
• Lands End Hwy

Sni Bora to Fisher Bay/Goose Bay:

• Snake Hwy - for some reason almost everybody calls this the Canoe Cut, but charts all agree that the proper name is Snake Hwy
• Doty Hwy - a place of special interest to me
• "the cut" - a small, nameless waterway between our cottage and the next

Sni Bora to Anchor Bay:

• Scotten Hwy - via Scotten Bay
• Moross Hwy
• Belt Hwy
• Baltimore Hwy (not to be confused with Baltimore Channel) - a major thoroughfare, off which runs the Mudhen Hwy
• Bryant Hwy
• Broad Cut (not to be confused with Broad Cut Hwy)
• Schweinkart Cut
• Johnnies Hwy

North Channel to Anchor Bay (south side):

• Genow Creek Hwy - via Scotten Bay

North Channel to Anchor Bay/Bouvier Bay (north side):

• North Hwy
• Horseshoe Canal
• Baltimore Channel (Not to be confused with Baltimore Hwy) - Right by Grassy Island (not to be confused with Grass Island)

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