Gilbert D. Hedden, was an American industrialist, politician and treasure hunter, and is most notable today for the progress he made in the 1930s, towards solving the treasure mystery at Oak Island, a 57 hectare privately owned island in Lunenburg County on the south shore of Nova Scotia, in which country?
Gilbert Hedden Gilbert D. Hedden (April 6, 1897 – September 1974) was an American industrialist, politician and treasure hunter. He was Mayor of Chatham Borough, New Jersey from 1934 to 1938. and is most notable today for the progress he made in the 1930s towards solving the Oak Island treasure mystery, described as the costliest treasure hunt ever.
Isle Haute Isle Haute is a remote island in the middle of upper Bay of Fundy near the entrance to the Minas Basin, 16 kilometers from the coast of Harbourville and 8 kilometers south-southwest of Cape Chignecto, Nova Scotia. The island is part of Cumberland County, Nova Scotia and is 3 km long and 0.4 km wide. The Mi'kmaq used the island to make stone tools before Europeans arrived and called the island "Maskusetik", meaning place of wild potatoes. Samuel de Champlain gave the present name to the island, meaning in French "High Island", in 1604 when he observed the towering bluffs, timber and fresh-water springs. The steep 100 m basalt cliffs of the island are the result from volcanic eruptions in the Jurassic period and may have been connected to the North Mountain volcanic ridge on the mainland 200 million years ago, before the Bay of Fundy was formed.