Roberta Boyd

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Roberta Grace "Bertha" Boyd was a Canadian heroine known as the "Grace Darling of the St. Croix". She was the daughter of the keeper of the Spruce Point Light near St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and would sometimes tend the light with her mother while her father was away. On October 8, 1882, Boyd saved two men whose sailboat had overturned in the river, and rowed them back to shore. For this action she was awarded a gold watch by the Dominion Government; in addition, the Department of Marine and Fisheries presented her with a new boat.

Boyd eventually became official keeper of the light upon her father's death. Nothing further is known of her life.