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The settlement, known as Sandy Bar, founded in the 1870's, consisted of a half-dozen or so well-built winter fishing-season cabins, and a “summer hunting-season” collection of cabins, campsites and potato gardens located a few kilometres inland on the banks of the Icelandic River.
But its chief significance is its connection to John Ramsay, an aboriginal whose contribution to the survival of early Icelandic pioneers is legendary.
Despite being informed by government officials that he, and the rest of his band were being displaced by the new arrivals, Ramsay took pity on the woefully unprepared settlers, offering them friendship and help.
By the turn of the 19th century the Sandy Bar townsite and the nearby cemetery had been largely abandoned by both Icelanders and aboriginals. The site soon returned to nature, save for Betsey Ramsay’s grave which lies near the long-deserted settlement.
A sign marks the location of the settlement of Sandy Bar.
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