Charlotte County (2016 population 25,428) is the southwest-most county of New Brunswick, Canada. It was formed in 1784 when New Brunswick was partitioned from

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. Once a layer of local government, the county seat was abolished with the

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in 1966. Counties continue to be used as census sundivisions by Statistics Canada. Located in the southwestern corner of the province, bordering the US state of

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, Charlotte County is at the northern end of the

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, which gives it a rugged terrain that includes Mount Pleasant. The

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, Magaguadavic, and Digdegaush rivers drain into the Bay of Fundy. The county includes the large, populated islands of

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, White Head, Deer Island, and Campobello. Eighteen per cent of the workforce is employed in aquaculture. Connors Bros., the largest sardine canning facility in North America, is located in Blacks Harbour. Cooke Aquaculture is an Atlantic salmon farming company, founded and headquartered in St. George. A paper mill, operated by

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, is in Utopia, and Flakeboard Co. Ltd. operates outside of St. Stephen. Ganong Bros., Canada's oldest chocolate company, maintains its factory in St. Stephen. Governance is in the form of New Brunswick municipalities in the case of the towns of St. Andrews, St. George, and St. Stephen, the villages of

and Blacks Harbour, and the rural community of

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. The remaining parts of the county are administered as local service districts of the Southwest New Brunswick Regional Service Commission, except Clarendon, which is part of RSC 11 in neighbouring Sunbury County.

Demographics

As a census division in the

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conducted by Statistics Canada, Charlotte County had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Population by census subdivision

Language

Infrastructure

Power generation

Hydroelectric dams operate in St. George and St. Stephen at Milltown, though the latter is currently being decommissioned.

Major highways

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References

{{Subdivisions of New Brunswick, counties=yes, state=expanded Counties of New Brunswick 1785 establishments in New Brunswick Populated places established in 1785