New Bandon-Salmon Beach
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New Bandon-Salmon Beach is a
local service district A local service district is a type of designated place in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. In the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, a local service district is a defined area led by an elected committee responsible for the deliv ...
in New Brunswick, Canada. New Bandon was named after the town of 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

Communities in Gloucester County, New Brunswick Designated places in New Brunswick Local service districts of Gloucester County, New Brunswick Mining communities in New Brunswick {{NewBrunswick-geo-stub