Gimme A Dream Vacation

About me
My name is Wynn Currie.

I live and work on the Magdalen Islands. My mother, Marion (Bunt) came from the Clark family who were of the original settlers on the islands. Her father was Allan of Henry jr. of Henry sr. of James Clark, the man who brought the Clark name to the islands, in 1822.

I’ve worked as a tour guide since 1999, spending three summers on the deserted ecological reserve of Brion Island. After completing many courses on welcoming island visitors, I started working as the Council for Anglophone Magdalen Islanders as their permanent Head Tourist Guide.

Because of my work as a journalist for a local newspaper and my interest in learning the history of the islands, I am considered one of the experts on the Iles-de-la-Madeleine/Magdalen Islands and on pets, in particular, horses. I also have expert status on handicrafts, in particular in the field of macrame and beadwork.

More recently I have picked up the hobby of keyword market research and creating profitable websites.
My goals are to learn all I can about everything I can.

Specialties:
I’m the author of several books and ebooks involving the Magdalen Islands:

‘Island Riders’ is an adolescent adventure series.

‘A tour of Brion Island’ is a photographic/journalistic biography of the 20th ecological reserve in Quebec.

‘Historical Heritage of the English Speaking Peoples of the Magdalen Islands’ is a summary of the last 200 years starting from the first arrivals to present day of the Magdalen Islands.

Plus others….

About the Islands

The Magdalen Islands Archipelago is roughly in the middle of the Gulf of St-Lawrence, 215 km east of the Gaspé peninsula, 105 km north of Prince Edward Island and 95 km west of Cape Breton Island. The Island chain takes the shape of an extended fishhook stretching across a distance of 65 km in a south-west/ north-easterly direction. Islanders live in the Atlantic Time Zone, one hour ahead of mainland Québec.

The Archipelago is made up of about a dozen islands, six of which are interconnected by long, thin, sand dunes. The names of the islands (from north to south) are: Coffin Island, Grosse Isle, Pointe-aux-Loups or Wolf Island, House Harbour, Grindstone, and Amherst Island. Other islands which are part of the archipelago are Entry Island, inhabited and located 10 km east of Amherst and Brion Island, an uninhabited island lying 16 km north of Grosse Isle. There are two Municipalities, Grosse Isle and Iles-de-la-Madeleine.

There are other smaller islands and islets, which are part of the Magdalen Islands Archipelago, some of which are Bird Rock, Seal Island, Shag Island, and Dead Man’s Island.