Clairville is a community in
Weldford Parish, New Brunswick
Weldford is a civil parish in Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada.
For governance purposes it is divided between Richibucto 15 Indian reserve and the local service district of the parish of Weldford, which is a member of the Kent Regional Serv ...
, located 5.34 km NE of
Coal Branch, on the road to
Jailletville on
Route 465. It was once called Hawk Ridge or New Lorne Settlement and some claim it was renamed Clairville for an early settler,
Clairville Price who was a Post Master there 1905–1958, however, others believe it may have been named for the
McLeary family who originally came from
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...
and settled in that location.
History
Notable people
See also
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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 ...
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Bordering communities
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Settlements in New Brunswick
Communities in Kent County, New Brunswick