Thousand Islands Brockville, Ontario, Canada. According to "The Oxford Companion of Food and Drink", the name for Thousand Island dressing "presumably comes from the Thousand Islands between the United States and Canada in the St. Lawrence River." However, several different versions of the dressing's origin exist. One common story describes how a fishing guide's wife, Sophia LaLonde, made the condiment as part of her husband George's shore dinner. Often in this version, actress May Irwin requested the recipe after enjoying it. Irwin in turn gave it to another Thousand Islands summer resident, George Boldt, who built Boldt Castle between 1900 and 1904.
Thousand Islands (Cocoa Beach) (Sw.) Willd.), blolly ("Guapira discolor" (Spreng.) Little), black ironwood ("Krugiodendron ferreum"(Vahl) Urb.), twinberry ("Myrcianthes fragrans"(Sw.) McVaugh), white indigo-berry ("Randia aculeata" L.), saffron plumb ("Sideroxylon celastrinum"(Kunth) T. D. Penn.), and wild lime ("Zanthoxylum fagara" (L.) Sarg.). Many of these plants are not found farther north than Brevard County. The state of Florida and Cocoa Beach purchased the islands north of Minutemen Causeway in 1988. Acquisition of the remaining south islands was completed by 2007. These islands are managed as the Thousand Islands Conservation Area by Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands Program. Efforts to acquire the remaining privately held islands began in