In 1936, a Rockefeller heir gave a Canadian island to a college for $1 on one condition: it had to remain a bird sanctuary

In 1936, John Sterling Rockefeller transferred a remote island in Canada’s Bay of Fundy to Bowdoin College for a symbolic price of $1. This was, however, accompanied by a condition that would shape its future: the college had to maintain the island as a bird sanctuary.

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