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Salmon Beach, New Brunswick
New Bandon-Salmon Beach is a Local service district (New Brunswick), local service district in New Brunswick, Canada. New Bandon was named after the town of Bandon, County Cork, Bandon in Ireland. It is located immediately East of the City of Bathurst, New Brunswick on Nepisiguit Bay. History It was a centre of grindstone production in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries until about 1945. In the later years, pulp-stones were produced. There was also a shipbuilding industry associated with the grindstone exports.Donat Robichaud, "L'Industrie des Meulles à New Bandon", in ''La revue d'histoire de la Société historique Nicolas Denys'', Vol. XIII, No. 3, Sep-Dec 1995, pp 5-42 Notable people See also *List of local service districts in New Brunswick References [...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] |
