The Village of Fundy-St. Martins is applying for a DarkSky International accreditation to attract stargazers to the planned dark sky corridor along the Fundy coast.
What does it take to protect views of the starry realms? Paperwork — lots of it.
Raechel Huizinga · CBC News
· Posted: May 16, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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These two images were both captured in New Brunswick’s planned dark sky corridor. On the left is the Milky Way, photographed at Fundy National Park, and on the right is Comet 2025 A6 Lemmon, photographed at the Irving Nature Park. (Stéphane Picard / Cliff Valley Astronomy)
Elaine Shannon waits for darkness to walk the ocean floor.
From her home in Fundy-St Martins, a village along New Brunswick’s Bay of Fundy coastline, she makes a daily pilgrimage to the shore. When the tide goes out, she travels the mudflats as far as she can before hitting the water.
Then, she looks up.
The deep, powerful darkness of the area, beloved by Shannon and others in her community, is more than a backdrop to whimsical stargazing;
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