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New Brunswick Route 124
Route 124 is an east/west provincial highway in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The road runs from Route 1 exit 175 in Valley Waters as far as the Saint John River, where it crosses the Evandale Ferry to Evandale and an intersection with Route 102. The road has a length of approximately 41.3 kilometres, excluding the distance across the river, and services small, otherwise isolated rural communities. In these areas, the highway is often unofficially referred to as "Mountain Road." This route intersects with New Brunswick Route 850. Communities along Route 124 * Valley Waters * Midland * Springfield * Hatfield Point * Kars * Evandale See also *List of New Brunswick provincial highways This is a list of numbered provincial highways in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. These provincial highways are maintained by the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure in New Brunswick. For a list of formerly-numbered highways, ... References New Brunswick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Transportation (New Brunswick)
The Ministry (government department), Department of Transportation is a part of the Government of New Brunswick. It is charged with the maintenance of the provincial highway network and the management of the province's automobile fleet. The department was established in 1967 when Premier of New Brunswick, Premier Louis Robichaud split the Department of Public Works and Highways (New Brunswick), Department of Public Works and Highways. In 2012, it returned to these roots when it was merged with most of the Department of Supply and Services (New Brunswick), Department of Supply and Services to form a new Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (New Brunswick), Department of Transportation and Infrastructure. Ministers * Williams continued with responsibility for this department when it was merged into the new Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (New Brunswick), Department of Transportation & Infrastructure. References External linksDepartment of Transport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evandale Ferry
The Evandale Ferry is a cable ferry in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The ferry carries New Brunswick Route 124 across the Saint John River, linking Kars on the east bank to Evandale on the west bank. The crossing is in length, takes 5 minutes, and is free of tolls. The ferry carries up to 15 cars at a time, and operates 24 hours a day all year. It is operated by the New Brunswick Department of Transportation. The department has a ferry maintenance yard by the ferry's eastern terminus. See also *List of crossings of the Saint John River The following bridges and ferries cross the Saint John River in the Canadian province of New Brunswick and U.S. state of Maine. Crossings See also * * * References {{commons category, Bridges over the Saint John River * Saint John River ... References External linksOfficial ferries web page of the New Brunswick Department of Transportation Ferries of New Brunswick Crossings of the Saint John River (Bay of Fundy) Cabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of New Brunswick Provincial Highways
This is a list of numbered provincial highways in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. These provincial highways are maintained by the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure in New Brunswick. For a list of formerly-numbered highways, see List of former New Brunswick provincial highways. __TOC__ Arterial highways Marked by green signs, these highways are the primary routes in the system, and Routes 1, 2, 7, 8, 11, 15, 16 and 95 are all expressways or freeways for part or all of their length. The speed limit generally ranges from , with the highest limits on four-lane freeway sections. Collector highways Marked by blue signs, these secondary highways are sometimes the old alignments of primary highways or connector routes between towns or to and from primary highways. The speed limit is generally . * Route 100 -- Saint John - Rothesay - Quispamsis - Hampton * Route 101 -- Fredericton - Tracy - Fredericton Junction - Welsford * Route 102 -- Pokiok - King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kars, New Brunswick
Kars is a rural community in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. Kars is served by two cable ferries. The Belleisle Bay Ferry connects Kars year round to Long Point and the Evandale Ferry connects Kars year round to Evandale. The community is named after the Siege of Kars. History Notable people See also *List of communities in New Brunswick This is a list of communities in New Brunswick, a province in Canada. For the purposes of this list, a community is defined as either an incorporated municipality, an Indian reserve, or an unincorporated community inside or outside a municipalit ... References Communities in Kings County, New Brunswick {{NewBrunswick-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatfield Point, New Brunswick
Hatfield Point is a settlement on the Belleisle Bay in Kings County, New Brunswick. History Hatfield Point is located at the head of the Belleisle Bay, called "Pascobac" ("Side Bay") by the Maliseet, who hunted and fished in the area. European settlement began in 1783 with the arrival of Captain Thomas Spragg, a United Empire Loyalist militia officer from Hempstead, Long Island. Spragg and his adult sons were granted large tracts on the north side of the Bay, soon dubbed "Spragg's Point". The first settlers were largely Loyalists from New York, with subsequent immigration directly from Britain and Ireland. Originally, most belonged to the established Church of England. However, the early 1800s brought a religious shift as the Anglican Church moved to Springfield. Founded in 1806, the "First Springfield Calvinist Baptist Church", now "Hatfield Point Baptist Church", became the mother church of several Baptist chapels around the Belleisle. The economy was mainly agricultural, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midland, Kings County, New Brunswick
Midland is a community in Springfield Parish, Kings County in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. History Notable people See also *List of communities in New Brunswick Neighbouring communities * Norton Norton may refer to: Places Norton, meaning 'north settlement' in Old English, is a common place name. Places named Norton include: Canada *Rural Municipality of Norton No. 69, Saskatchewan *Norton Parish, New Brunswick **Norton, New Brunswick, a ... * Keirsteadville Communities in Kings County, New Brunswick {{NewBrunswick-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Brunswick Route 850
Route 850 is a Canadian highway in Kings County, New Brunswick. The 27 kilometre road passes along the northern side of the Kingston Peninsula. Route 850 begins near Springfield at an intersection with Route 124. Skirting the southern shore of Belleisle Bay, the route passes through Keirsteadville, Long Point and Erbs Cove, before terminating at Kingston at an intersection with Route 845. Just north of Erbs Cove, there is a cable ferry across Bellisle Bay. The ferry operates year-round. Much of the route passes through a narrow band of low lying agricultural land with forested hills rising in the background. This is a popular summer residential area and there is a small marina on the bay. Communities along Route 850 * Kingston * Urquhart * Erbs Cove * Long Point * Keirsteadville *Springfield See also *List of New Brunswick provincial highways This is a list of numbered provincial highways in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. These provincial highways are maint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Brunswick Route 102
Description Route 102 is a highway that follows the west bank of the Saint John River for 157 kilometres from Pokiok to Westfield. Most of the route is colloquially (but not officially) known as the Old River Road, as it was the original road connecting Fredericton and Saint John. The highway progresses along the Saint John River in Pokiok passing the Hawkshaw Bridge to Route 105 turning northeast as it passes through Hawkshaw, Barony, and Dumfries. The route then passes through Prince William crossing Joslin Creek Basin then entering Lower Prince William as it passes Kings Landing and an interchange with Route 635. The route continues past Longs Creek Passing the northern terminus Of The New Brunswick Route 3 Continuing Following the river past Woolastook Park and the Mactaquac Dam through Upper Kingsclear, Central Kingsclear, and Lower Kingsclear, as well as French Village and Island View as it enters Fredericton. The route enters Fredericton in the neig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint John River (New Brunswick)
The Saint John River (french: Fleuve Saint-Jean; Maliseet-Passamaquoddy: ''Wolastoq'') is a long river that flows from Northern Maine into Canada, and runs south along the western side of New Brunswick, emptying into the Atlantic Ocean in the Bay of Fundy. Eastern Canada's longest river, its drainage basin is one of the largest on the east coast at about . A part of the border between New Brunswick and Maine follows 130 km (80 miles) of the river. A tributary forms 55 km (35 miles) of the border between Quebec and Maine. New Brunswick settlements through which it passes include, moving downstream, Edmundston, Fredericton, Oromocto, and Saint John. It is regulated by hydro-power dams at Mactaquac, Beechwood, and Grand Falls, New Brunswick. Hydronym Samuel de Champlain visited the mouth of the river on the feast day of John the Baptist in 1604 and renamed it the Rivière Saint-Jean or Saint John River in English. Many waterways in the system retain their origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evandale, New Brunswick
Evandale is a community in Canada, in the province of New Brunswick. It is situated on the west bank of the Saint John River, and on New Brunswick Route 102. The Evandale Ferry, a cable ferry, carries Route 124 across the river from Kars on the east bank. History After the American Revolution this community was named "Wordens" for New York Loyalist Jarvis Worden, a member of the King's American Regiment The King's American Regiment, also known as the "Associated Refugees", were a Loyalist regiment during the American Revolutionary War. The King's American Regiment was raised on Staten Island in the Province of New York in December 1776 by Colon ... in the American Revolution. The community assumed its present name in 1886. See also * List of communities in New Brunswick References Communities in Kings County, New Brunswick {{NewBrunswick-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Brunswick Route 1
Route 1 is a highway in the southern part of the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It begins in the west from the Canada–United States border at St. Stephen, and runs east for to Route 2 at River Glade. The entire highway is a 4-lane controlled-access freeway (from the Maine border to River Glade). It is one of the most important highways in the province, carrying traffic from the American border, through the City of Saint John (the industrial seat of the province and the oldest city in the country), to the highways end at the interchange with the Trans Canada Highway, just outside of Moncton. History The majority of road development in New Brunswick follows settlement patterns which pre-dated motor transport, thus most communities developed along navigable waterways or were served by railways. The development of controlled access expressways only began in the 1960s and only around the largest communities. The majority of early provincial highway improvements merely con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Brunswick
New Brunswick (french: Nouveau-Brunswick, , locally ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. It is the only province with both English and French as its official languages. New Brunswick is bordered by Quebec to the north, Nova Scotia to the east, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the northeast, the Bay of Fundy to the southeast, and the U.S. state of Maine to the west. New Brunswick is about 83% forested and its northern half is occupied by the Appalachians. The province's climate is continental with snowy winters and temperate summers. New Brunswick has a surface area of and 775,610 inhabitants (2021 census). Atypically for Canada, only about half of the population lives in urban areas. New Brunswick's largest cities are Moncton and Saint John, while its capital is Fredericton. In 1969, New Brunswick passed the Official Languages Act which began recognizing French as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
