Musquash is a Canadian rural community in
Saint John County
Saint John County (2016 population: 74,020) is located in southern New Brunswick, Canada. The city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Saint John dominates the county. Elsewhere in the county, tourism is focused around the Bay of Fundy.
Census sub ...
,
New Brunswick
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. It is located west southwest of the community of
Prince of Wales
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in
Musquash Parish.
History
Musquash was settled in the early 1800s at the head of navigation on the Musquash River. The Shore Line Railway (later
Canadian Pacific Railway
The Canadian Pacific Railway (french: Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique) , also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadi ...
) was built through the community but has since been abandoned. The community includes the locales of
Ivanhoe
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,
West Musquash and
Clinch's Mills. A post office was located in Musquash from 1847 to 1969. It was largely a farming and lumbering community but is now largely an
exurb
An exurb (or alternately: exurban area) is an area outside the typically denser inner suburban area, at the edge of a metropolitan area, which has some economic and commuting connection to the metro area, low housing density, and growth. It s ...
of
Saint John, thanks to being located on the
Route 1 expressway.
Notable people
See also
*
List of lighthouses in New Brunswick
This is a list of lighthouses in New Brunswick.
Lighthouses
See also
*List of lighthouses in Canada
References
External links
New Brunswick Lighthouses''Lighthouses Friends''. Retrieved 18 February 2017
List of Lights, Buoys and Fog Signal ...
*
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
External links
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick - MusquashNatural Resources Canada - MusquashPicture of the lighthouseAids to Navigation''Canadian Coast Guard''
Communities in Saint John County, New Brunswick
Lighthouses in New Brunswick
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