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Gloucester County, New Brunswick
Gloucester County (2021 population 78,256) is located in the northeastern corner of New Brunswick, Canada. Fishing, mining and forestry are the major industries in the county. The eastern section of the county is known for its Acadian culture. The county is named for Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh. Census subdivisions Communities There are 19 municipalities within the county. They are listed below by 2016 population: First Nations There is one First Nations reservation in Gloucester County (listed with 2016 population): Parishes The county is subdivided into ten parishes (listed by 2016 population): Demographics As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Gloucester 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. Language Access Routes Highways and numbered routes that run ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Counties Of New Brunswick
The Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of New Brunswick has 15 counties, originating in the British tradition of local courts for civil and judicial administration that were officiated by the colony's appointed magistrate, magistrates. Counties, parishes and shiretowns are delineated in the Territorial Division Act. While no longer administrative divisions, they continue to define regional communities and have many legacy functions and provincial applications. They figure prominently in residents' sense of place and continue as significant threads in the Province of New Brunswick's cultural fabric (i.e., most citizens always know which county they are in). Counties are used as the basis of census divisionsWhen municipalities extend into two counties, the entire municipality is assigned to one census division. by Statistics Canada in the Census in Canada, national census, while their parishes are the basis for census subdivisions. History The push for respo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nepisiguit Bay
Nepisiguit Bay (from the Mi’kmaq word , which means "rough water") is located in northern New Brunswick, Canada on the southern part of the Chaleur Bay ( French: Baie des Chaleurs), which extends from the Atlantic Ocean and Nepisiguit Bay is a southern arm of it, stretching between Petit-Rocher and Stonehaven Stonehaven ( ) is a town on the northeast coast of Scotland, south of Aberdeen. It had a population of 11,177 at th2022 Census Stonehaven was formerly the county town of Kincardineshire, succeeding the now abandoned town of Kincardine, Aberd .... The current site of the city of Bathurst was a summer home of the Mi’kmaq First Nation that they called Nepisiguit. The first Permanent Europeans settlers from France arrived in 1619. Commodore George Walker, a successful British privateer, set up a fishing and trading operation on the Nepisiguit Bay in 1768 at the present day location of Youghall Park. These installations were later destroyed in 1778 by American Pira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caraquet Parish, New Brunswick
Caraquet is a geographic parish in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes, the parish is divided between the towns of Caraquet, Hautes-Terres, Rivière-du-Nord, and Shippagan. All municipalities are members of the Acadian Peninsula Regional Service Commission (APRSC). Origin of name Historian William F. Ganong described the origin of the name as uncertain, the Mi'kmaq ''Caluget'' possibly being their pronunciation of a French name for the area. History Caraquet was erected in 1831 from Saumarez Parish; it originally included Shippegan Parish and Paquetville Parish. In 1851, Shippegan was erected as its own parish. In 1897, Paquetville was erected as its own parish. Boundaries Caraquet Parish is bounded: Remainder of parish on map 19 at same site. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 036, 054–056, and 074–076 at same site. * on the north by the Caraquet River, Caraquet Bay, and Chaleur Bay; * on the east by Baie de Shippagan, Baie Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beresford, New Brunswick
Beresford was a town from 1984 to 2023 but was dissolved in 2023 as a result of amalgamation to form the new town of Belle-Baie. The name Beresford is retained for addresses purposes. History On January 1, 2023, Beresford amalgamated with three villages, seven local service districts (LSDs) and parts of three other LSDs to form the new town of Belle-Baie. Geography It is on the shore of Nepisiguit Bay, part of Chaleur Bay immediately north of the city of Bathurst. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Beresford 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. 79% of the former town's residents are francophone. Language Attractions One of Beresford's main attractions is its beach. Renovated in the late 1990s, the beach features an observation tower overlooking the marshes, a boardwalk and chang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracadie-Sheila
Tracadie-Sheila ( ) is a former town in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada. It is now part of the Regional Municipality of Tracadie. History Demographics Population Language Tourism and culture Located on the Acadian Peninsula, the area has a number of sandy beaches. Val-Comeau, the most popular, is protected as a Provincial Park. The beaches can usually be enjoyed from June until September, when the water is a moderate temperature. Signage is in French, as most inhabitants of the Acadian Peninsula are predominantly French speaking. The community became known as the hometown of Wilfred Le Bouthillier, winner of the 2003 Quebec reality show ''Star Académie''. The success of the young singer, known simply as Wilfred, resulted in a significant rise in tourism to the region. The town is also home to pop singer Jean-François Breau. Well-known AIDS activist Dr. Réjean Thomas and opera singer Michèle Losier, (both now residing in Montreal), are from the nei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bathurst Parish, New Brunswick
Bathurst is a geographic parish in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes, the parish is divided between the city of Bathurst, the town of Belle-Baie, and the Chaleur rural district, as well as the Pabineau 11 Indian reserve; the city, town, and village are all part of the Chaleur Regional Service Commission. Prior to the 2023 governance reform, the parish was divided between Bathurst, the town of Beresford, the Indian reserve, and six local service districts: Allardville, Big River, Dunlop, New Bandon-Salmon Beach, North Tetagouche, and the parish of Bathurst; In the 2023 reform, Bathurst annexed most of North Tetagouche, the northern part of Big River, a part of New Bandon-Salmon Beach along Currie Street, and parts of the LSD of the parish of Bathurst including the communities of Chamberlain Settlement, Gloucester Junction, and Sainte-Anne; Beresford became part of Belle-Baie, annexing Dunlop and small parts of the parish LSD; Allardville ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bathurst, New Brunswick
Bathurst () is a city in northern New Brunswick with a population of 12,157 and the 4th largest metropolitan area in New Brunswick as defined by Census Canada with a population of 31,387 as of 2021. The City of Bathurst overlooks Nepisiguit Bay, part of Chaleur Bay and is at the estuary of the Nepisiguit River. On January 1, 2023, Bathurst annexed parts of the Local service district (New Brunswick), local service districts of Bathurst Parish, New Brunswick, the parish of Bathurst, Big River, New Bandon-Salmon Beach,Properties along Currie Street, most of which don't have street numbers. The white paper proposing the 2023 governance changes based its percentage figures on the population of LSDs rather than their land area, which implies that the NB-SB area was omitted from the boundary description because the area has no permanent residents. and North Tetagouche, New Brunswick, North Tetagouche. The names of communities in the annexed areas remain in use for address purposes. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peninsular War
The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Kingdom of Portugal, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence. The war can be said to have started when the First French Empire, French and History of Spain (1808–1874), Spanish armies Invasion of Portugal (1807), invaded and occupied Portugal in 1807 by transiting through Kingdom of Spain (1810-1873), Spain, but it escalated in 1808 after First French Empire, Napoleonic France occupied History of Spain (1808–1874), Spain, which had been its ally. Napoleon Bonaparte Abdications of Bayonne, forced the abdications of Ferdinand VII of Spain, Ferdinand VII and his father Charles IV of Spain, Charles IV and then installed his brother Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne and promulgated the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Of Wellington
Field marshal (United Kingdom), Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was a British Army officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, twice serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was one of the British commanders who ended the Anglo-Mysore wars by defeating Tipu Sultan in 1799 and among those who ended the Napoleonic Wars in a Coalition victory when the Seventh Coalition defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Wellesley was born into a Protestant Ascendancy family in Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland. He was commissioned as an Ensign (rank), ensign in the British Army in 1787, serving in Ireland as aide-de-camp to two successive lords lieutenant of Ireland. Wellesley was also elected as a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons. Rising to the rank of Colon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford
William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, (; 2 October 1768 – 8 January 1854) was a British army officer and politician. A General (British Army), general in the British Army and a Marshal of Portugal, Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he fought alongside the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and held the office of Master-General of the Ordnance in 1828 in the First Wellington ministry. He led the 1806 failed British invasions of the River Plate, British invasion of Buenos Aires. Early life William Beresford was born on 2 October 1768, the illegitimate son of George Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford, George Beresford, 2nd Earl of Tyrone. Beresford received his early education in Yorkshire before in 1785 he was sent to Strasbourg, where he attended a French military academy. Early campaign experience Having spent several months at the military academy, on 27 August the same year Beresford joined the British Army as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Carleton
General Thomas Carleton ( 1735 – 2 February 1817) was an Irish-born British Army officer who was promoted to colonel during the American Revolutionary War after relieving the siege of Quebec in 1776. After the war, he was appointed as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, and supervised the resettlement of Loyalists from the United States in the province. He held this position until his death, although he was absent in England for the last fourteen years of his tenure, refusing orders to return in a dispute about seniority. Early life and education Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, in Ulster, Ireland, to Christoper Carleton and his wife Catherine Ball, he was the younger brother of The 1st Baron Dorchester. As part of a military family, Thomas joined the British Army at a young age. Military career In 1753, he was an ensign in the 20th Regiment of Foot and saw action with his regiment during the Seven Years' War. After the conclusion of the Seven Years' War, Thomas Carl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carleton Parish, New Brunswick
Carleton is a geographic parish in Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes it is mainly part of the Kent rural district, which is a member of the Kent Regional Service Commission. Small areas on the southern and western boundaries belong to the town of Beaurivage and the village of Nouvelle-Arcadie, respectively. Prior to the 2023 governance reform, the parish was divided between the local service districts of Pointe-Sapin, east of the national park, and the parish of Carleton, to its west. Origin of name The parish was named for Thomas Carleton, first Governor of New Brunswick. History Carleton was erected in 1814 as part of Northumberland County from Newcastle Parish. It included Acadieville, Richibucto, Saint-Louis, and Weldford Parishes. In 1827 Richibucto was erected as Liverpool Parish, including modern Weldford Parish. In 1845 the boundary with Northumberland County was adjusted, adding area to Carleton. In 1855 Saint-Louis was erect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
