Atholville is an unincorporated community in

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, Canada. It held village status prior to 2023. The first inhabitants of the area were the ''

Mi'kmaq The Mi'kmaq (also ''Mi'gmaq'', ''Lnu'', ''Miꞌkmaw'' or ''Miꞌgmaw''; ; ) are a First Nations people of the Northeastern Woodlands, indigenous to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as the nor ...

'' who settled there in the 6th century BC and were then called ''Tjikog''. With 400 people, it was their biggest village and the only one permanently inhabited in the region. The

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arrived in 1750. It was at this time that the Mi'kmaq left the area and went to Listuguj in

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. The French defeat at the

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on July 8, 1760, was damaging to the development of the settlement. The

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, however, was inaugurated in 1876 and Anglophone merchants developed the forestry industry in the early 20th century. The village then experienced significant growth and was incorporated as a municipality in 1966. A shopping centre frequented by people from the whole region was established there from 1974. The forestry industry still plays an important role in the local economy.

History

Prehistory

Covered with ice during the

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, the Atholville district was probably released from the glaciers in about 13,000 BC.''General geological map of shallow sediments in New Brunswick''
AA. Seaman, 2002, Ministry of Natural Resources and Energy, consulted on 7 August 2009 The Goldthwait Sea subsequently covered the coastal area, then gradually receded until around 8,000 BC. due to

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. The village ''Tjikog'' has been permanently inhabited since at least the 6th century BC. by the

s. Tjikog was fortified by a piled wall and also had a cemetery. Tjikog was located in the district of ''Gespegeoag'' which included the coastline of

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:Philip K. Bock and William C. Sturtevant, ''Handbook of North American Indians'', 13 Volumes, Vol. 1, Government Printing Office, 1978, pp. 109-110, 777 pages it was the only permanently inhabited village in the whole district. Before the arrival of Europeans the village had a population of between 400 and 500, making Tjikog the largest Mi'kmaq village. Mi'kmaq lifestyle was based on hunting

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and

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with

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s, and collecting

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. The population lived along the river nearly all year. The

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of Tjikog is the

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The French period

In July 1534

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entered Chaleur Bay up to the mouth of the

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.Ristigouche River
Toponymy Commission of Québec, consulted on 29 November 2012 The French founded

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in 1604. Father Sebastian, a

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, was the first missionary to visit Tjikog in 1619 and he found a cross planted in front of a "hut of prayer".Canadian Historical society of the Catholic church, ''Study Sessions'', Société canadienne d'histoire de l'Église catholique, 1978, p. 88 . The

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replaced the Recollects in 1624 and the

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followed in the same year then the Recollects returned in 1661.''The French at the Athol house Site''
, Restigouche Gallery website, consulted on 21 August 2012 The efforts of missionaries were initially focused on

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- where the capital of the Mi'kmaq was - then moved to Tjikog, which was regarded as the centre of

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worship in Mi'kmaq and Acadia. In 1642 Father André Richard lived in the village for six months. Chief Nepsuget was baptised in 1644 then 40 others in 1647. Increasingly frequent contacts with Europeans allowed the Mi'kmaqs to acquire things, especially those made from metal, in exchange for furs.Bock and Sturtevant (1978), opcit, p. 117. However, diseases brought in by Europeans decimated much of the population from the 17th century. Gespegeoag was first claimed by the

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and then later only by the Mohawks. Oral tradition maintains, however, that in 1639 at the beginning of the

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, a group of Mohawks from

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met Mi'kmaq fishermen in Long IslandLong Island is located in the Restigouche river in

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, 7 kilometres west of Atholville. and, despite the warnings of his father, the son of the Mohawk Chief massacred the Mi'kmaqs sparing none but Chief Tonel.Tonel means "thunder". After his recovery Chief Tonel went to Kahnawake. Before executing the leaders of the attack, he exclaimed: ''Gotj Listo!'' meaning "disobey your father!". From this the village was renamed ''Listo Gotj'' on his return. Nicolas Denys established a store at Listo Gotj in 1647 but had to abandon it in 1650.''Denys, Nicolas''
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, consulted on 21 August 2012 Richard Denys, the son of Nicolas, obtained control of the land on the departure of his father to France in 1671.Denys, Richard
George MacBeath, 2000, Online biographical dictionary of Canada,

, consulted on 21 August 2012 The missionary Chrétien Le Clercq lived in Listo Gotj in 1676''Le Clercq, Chrestien''
G.-M. Dumas, 2000, Online biographical dictionary of Canada,

, consulted on 21 August 2012 where he wrote his main texts on the Mi'kmaqs. Richard found a new occupation at Listo Gotj in 1679 or 1680 fishing and drying fish as well as the fur trade. In 1685 he gave land to the Recollects to open a mission.William Gagnong, ''A Monograph of historic sites in the province of New Brunswick'', J. Hope, Ottawa, 1899, p. 300
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consulted on 15 August 2012 In 1688 there was a total of 17 Europeans living at Listo Gotj including 8 employees of Richard Denys. The French then maintained a trading post probably on the coast of

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.Not to be confused with modern Canada. Canada was a province of New France corresponding roughly with

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.''Visitor Guide and maps''
Campbellton website, consulted on 20 August 2012 The Denys family did not meet the conditions of their concession and it became crown land. The ''Lordship of Restigouche'', 12 leagues long and 10 leagues wide,About 46.8 km by 39 km, comprising the territory along the coast between

to the west and

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to the east. was given to

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in 1690.Ganong (1899), opcit, p. 344. The Recollect concession was also revoked in 1690. Richard Denys bought the lordship in 1691 but died in the same year. Françoise Cailleteau, the widow of Denys, then married Pierre Ray-Gaillard and settled in

. They rented part of the lordship but the area became abandoned and, apart from the Micmacs, there was no more than one Frenchman, one Canadian, and some half-caste children at Listo Gotj in 1724. The

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obtained control of

in 1713 through the

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. The treaty was vague: the French thought they retained the territory now corresponding to New Brunswick while the British believed they had control. The Mi'kmaq left Listo Gotj for Listuguj on the north bank of the river in Quebec. Several sources place this event in 1745Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, ''Tawow, Volumes 1 to 6'', Ottawa, 1970, p. 41 while others mention 1759 and even 1770. The decision by the Mi'kmaq was related to the intrusion of Europeans into the heart of their village and their desire to move the Mi'kmaqs from a Protestant colony to a Catholic colony or rather to ensure that they remained faithful to the King of France. Dessin du Machault (1791)

The Acadians settled in Pointe-aux-Sauvages on the present site of Campbellton between 1750 and 1755 - the year of the start of the

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. In 1753 the daughter of Françoise Cailleteau sold the lordship of Restigouche to one ''Bonfils'' from Quebec. In 1759, after the

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, the colony begged France to send reinforcements.W.J. Eccles, ''Battle of Restigouche''
The Canadian Encyclopedia. On 19 April 1760 six ships, under the command of ''François Chenard de la Giraudais'', left

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carrying 400 men and food. Giraudais, on learning that a British fleet had penetrated into the

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, decided to take refuge in the Restigouche River and set up batteries on its banks. The

took place east of the village from 3 to 8 July 1760. The British fleet outnumbered the French. Without reinforcements, Montreal surrendered on 8 September to the troops of

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. The French troops at Restigouche surrendered on 23 October and were repatriated to France. The

officially took possession of New France in 1763 by signing the Treaty of Paris. In 1764 Bonfils tried to gain recognition of his ownership of the lordship of Restigouche but it was refused under an Act of 1759 canceling all the concessions made under the French regime.

Under British rule until the constitution

After the

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British traders established

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plants for

. Meanwhile, George Walker, from Bathurst, established a branch of his business in Walker Creek in 1768, on the site of Campbellton. Hugh Baillie obtained the first concession which he sold to Englishman John Shoolbred. Colonization was not, however, a priority and Shoolbred, not having built a school or street, lost his concession to an employee. The

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arrived in New Brunswick from 1783 but did not get concessions in the county. The Listo Gotj concession was granted to Samuel Lee in 1788 and since then the village became more developed than Campbellton. Samuel Lee also opened a sawmill at Walker Creek which was the first step towards the directing of the economy to logging. The Scotsman Robert Ferguson arrived in the area in 1796 and inherited the business of his brother Alexander.''Ferguson, Robert''
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, consulted on 29 NOvember 2012. His thriving business contributed to the immigration of other Scots to the region. A chapel was built in 1810 in the old cemetery: it closed its doors in 1834.''Notre-Dame de Lourdes parish''
Irene Doyle, 1998, Irene's genealogy and history website, consulted on 20 August 2012 Around 1812 Robert Ferguson built boats at Listo Gotj. Part of the fleet, which had Ferguson aboard, was captured by American

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. After leaving his confinement Robert Ferguson built a store and a house named ''Athol House'' from which the village derives its modern name of Atholville. The 1825 Miramichi Fire destroyed much of the New Brunswick forests. The logging industry then moved northward and sawmills and shipyards were opened in Atholville and also in Campbellton from 1828. Meanwhile, in 1826 Atholville and several other places in the area were grouped into Addington Parish in Gloucester County from a portion of Beresford Parish.In New Brunswick, a parish is a territorial sub-division which lost administrative significance in 1966 but has always been used for census purposes.''Genealogical guide to the county of Restigouche''
2006, Archives provinciales du Nouveau-Brunswick website, consulted on 24 November 2012 Restigouche County, comprising the parishes of Addington and Eldon was separated from Gloucester County in 1837. Robert Ferguson was granted the concession for the territory in 1850. A school was opened at that time on Roseberry Street in Campbellton which served Atholville. This building sparked the development of the urban area towards Atholville in the west. The stocks of quality trees were exhausted in 1855 but fish canning and shingle factories opened. The

passed through the village in 1876 which represented a significant economic opportunity. Athol House was used as a weather stationAdrian Room, ''Dictionary of World Place Names Derived from British Names'', Taylor & Francis, 1989, 221 pages, p. 9, . but was destroyed in a fire in 1894. The Shives company inaugurated the largest shingle works in the Maritime Provinces in 1901. The Mowatt and WH Miller mills became operational in 1902 and 1905 respectively. The first school was founded in 1905. The post office was founded in 1906.''Place names of New Brunswick - Atholville''
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, consulted on 1 November 2011 . The church opened in 1909 - Atholville was then a mission of Campbellton. The parish of Our Lady of Lourdes was set up in 1913.Notre-Dame de Lourdes parish
, Diocese of Bathurst, consulted on 20 August 2012 The construction of the Fraser mill by the Restigouche Company began in 1919. The plant was inaugurated in 1928Nicolas Landry and Nicole Lang, ''History of Acadia'', Éditions du Septentrion, Québec, 2001, p. 259 . and became the third largest paper producer in the north of the province in 1929.Donald J. Savoie and Maurice Beaudin, ''The struggle for development, the north-east case'', Presses de l'Université du Québec/Institut canadien de recherche sur le développement régional, Sillery/Moncton, 1988, 282 pages, p. 32, Atholville high school opened its doors in 1930. The Daughters of Mary of the Assumption settled in 1934. The credit union was founded in 1938. The local improvement committee was founded in 1947. A waterworks and sewer were inaugurated in 1950. The Versant-Nord school was inaugurated in 1951''Francophone North-East''
Ministry of Education of New Brunswick], consulted on 2 November 2012 in the same year as the fire station. The Brothers of the Sacred Heart settled in the village in 1956. The J. C. Van Horne Bridge was inaugurated in 1961 in Campbellton which enabled faster travel to Quebec and contributed much to the economy. Radio Engineering Products opened a factory around 1963.

From the Constitution to the present day

On 9 November 1966 the Municipality of the County of Restigouche was dissolved''Framework of local government and viable regions: plan of action for the future of local governance in New Brunswick'', Jean-Guy Finn, Fredericton, November 2008, 83 pages, p. 30,
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and Atholville was incorporated as a village.Quadrennial municipal elections
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, consulted on 24 December 2013 The rest of Addington Parish became a local service district in 1967. The municipal library opened its doors in the same year. A merger of Atholville with Richardsville and Campbellton was studied in 1971. but only the latter two were merged. Mayor Raymond Lagacé, who was elected in the same year, was one of the main opponents of municipal mergers.Jean-François Boisvert, ''The doyen of municipal politics demands respect'', L'Acadie Nouvelle, 4 April 2012 The Sugarloaf Provincial Park was opened for winter sports in 1971 and officially opened the following year. The province then saw a "golden age" of tourist development.John Leroux, ''Building New Brunswick, An Architectural History'', Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton, 2008, p. 239, . The ''Restigouche Centre'', a shopping centre, was built in 1974. A Community pool, offered by the

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, opened in 1975. Residential development in Saint-Louis street started in 1976. The Royal Canadian Legion got a new hall in 1977. The Fraser factory in Atholville and the NBIP Dalhousie plant each received $30 million in 1980 for modernization works.Savoie and Baudin (1988), opcit, p. 160. In total $170 million was invested in Atholville to convert the plant processes from bisulphate to

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.Graeme Rodden, ''Atholville Receives a New Lease on Life as Av Cell'', Pulp & Paper Canada, 1 April 1999
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, consulted on 23 August 2012. The Northeast Pine company, a furniture manufacturer, closed its plant in the early 1980sSavoie and Baudin (1988), opcit, p. 96. and the municipality obtained ownership of the plant in 1987 to create an industrial mall. The paper industry was in crisis in the same year and Fraser separated the Atholville mill into an independent company: Atholville Pulp. The factory achieved profit in subsequent years. In 1988 the Atholville industrial park was the most used in the north of the province. The Atholville Pulp plant however closed in 1991. A pumping station was built in 1993. The Fraser company sold the Atholville Pulp factory to Repap in 1994. Repap wanted to produce methanol but market conditions forced it to abandon its plans and to close the plant in 1996 after producing pulp for only six months. Atholville Manor opened in 1998. The Fils Atlantique textile spinning mill (Atlantic Yarns) opened in the industry mall in the late 1990s.Radio-Canada, ''The future does not have yarn'', 15 January 2009, Radio-Canada News
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consulted on 27 November 2012 . Miller Brae park was inaugurated in 2000. A new public library was built in 2002. A new reservoir was installed in 2005. Fills Atlantique closed for 10 months in 2008 mainly because of the global recession and large debts. A recovery plan was accepted during the same year but the company finally declared bankruptcy in 2009. The Atholville Credit Union merged with the Campbellton, Balmoral, Val-d'Amour, Charlo,

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, and Kedgwick Credit Unions in 2009 to form the Restigouche Credit Union.Restigouche Credit Union
, Acadian Credit Unions website, consulted on 30 December 2010. From October 2010 to January 2012 the Versant-Nord school has some students from the Roland-Pépin Universal school in Campbellton during some emergency work being done on their school as the structure was dangerous. Mayor Raymond Lagacé retired from municipal politics in 2012 after 43 years, including 41 at the town hall: he was the longest-serving mayor in New Brunswick. The disused textile mill was purchased in 2014 by the Zenabis company to produce

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.Jean-François Boisvert, ''Marijuana: Zenabis chooses Atholville'', L'Acadie Nouvelle, 11 March 2014
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On 1 January 2023, Atholville became part of the city of Campbellton. The community's name remains in official use.

Toponymy

The village originally had the name ''Tjikog''Vincent F. Zelazny, ''Our Country Heritage, The history of ecological classification of the lands of New-Brunswick'', 2nd edition, Ministry of Natural Resources of New-Brunswick, Fredericton, 2007, 404 pages, p. 144–145,
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, consulted on 7 August 2009 but the spellings ''Tjigog''Listuguj
Toponymy Commission of Québec, consulted on 29 November 2012 . ''Jugugw, Tchigouk'',
Restigouche Gallery website, consulted on 21 August 2012 and ''Tzigog''Margerite Michaud, ''The Acadians of the Maritime provinces, historical and tourist guide'', Imprimerie acadienne, Moncton, 1968, 165 pages, p. 61 . also exist. ''Tjikog'' means "a place of superior men" in

. According to oral tradition in 1639 the village was renamed ''Listo Gotj'' by Chief Tonel. The exact meaning of the place name is unknown although Father ''Pacifique de Valigny'' suggested the meaning "disobey your father!". There are many other translations: "a river dividing like a hand", "a fun place in spring", "river of the long war", "small forest", "small tree", "theatre of the great squirrel quarrel", "good river for canoeing", "beautiful river like five fingers", "five branches", or "many branches". In 1642 Barthélemy Vimont was the first to make a written record of the name ''Restigouche'' in reference to

. In 1672 Nicolas Denys was the first to mention the use of the name in connection with the village, in his ''Geographical and historical description of the coasts of North America, with the natural history of this country''. According to Father Pacifique the names ''Listuguj'' and '' Ristigouche'' or '' Restigouche''The spelling Ristigouche is more common in French while Restigouche is official in English. ''Listuguj'' is the modern Mi'kmaq name. derived from ''Listo Gotj''. Moreover, the toponym ''Restigouche'' applies, especially in a historical context, to all the settlements along the river.William Gagnong, ''A Monograph of the Origins of the Settlements in New Brunswick'', J. Hope, Ottawa, 1904, 185 pages, p. 168-169 The village was called ''Sainte-Anne-de-Restigouche'' in the 17th century.''A self-sufficient municipality...and more too''
, consulted on 8 December 2011 Denise Lamontagne, ''Religion at Sainte-Anne in Acadia'', Presses de l'Université Laval, Québec, 2011, pp. 151-152, This name applied to the Listuguj Catholic mission in the early 20th century. The entrepreneur Robert Ferguson (1768-1851) arrived in the area in 1796 from Logierait near

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and built a house called ''Athol House'': this was actually one of many Scottish names in the North of the county.William Baillie Hamilton, ''Place Names of Atlantic Canada'', University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1996, 502 pages, p. 45 Robert Ferguson was nicknamed the "father and founder of Restigouche". There is a village called ''Blair Athol'' 18 km by road south-east of Atholville, while Point Ferguson in Atholville is named after him. At the beginning of the 20th century the village was known under four names at the same time: Soiot Athol, Shives Athol, Athol House, and Ferguson Manor.L'Évangéline, 15 June 1922, 5 pages, One post office had ''Ferguson Manor'' on its door from 1916 to 1923 and another had ''Shives Athol'' from 1907 to 1931.Alan Rayburn, ''Geographical Names of New Brunswick'', Energy, Mines, and Resources Canada, Ottawa, 1975, p. 40 Following a petition the village was officially named ''Atholville'' in June 1922. The Ferguson Manor post office was renamed Atholville in the following year.

Geography

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Location

Atholville is located four kilometres west of downtown Campbellton. The village is generally considered part of

. Atholville is bordered to the north by the

and has an area of 119.60 square kilometres, after an annexation that took place in 2015. Apart from Campbellton, the village is adjacent to Val-d'Amours to the south and

to the west. The Quebec side extends, from west to east, from Restigouche-Partie-Sud-Est to Pointe-à-la-Croix and Listuguj. ''Walker Creek'' rises in the south-east of the territory. It has a few tributaries in the area with the main one continuing east parallel to Highway 11. Walker Creek flows into the Restigouche River in Campbellton. There are also a few streams flowing directly into the Restigouche River. The site of the stockade (''Booming Grounds'') is a

salt marsh A salt marsh or saltmarsh, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides. It is domin ...

. The

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cover most of the territory of the municipality. ''Butte Sugar'', with a height of about 200 m, also extends into the territory of

and lies directly south of the built-up area of the town. South of Butte Sugar there is a valley and another mountain which extends into Val-d'Amours and

, whose height exceeds 230 metres in the Atholville portion. Only a small part of the west side of Sugarloaf (281 m) is included in the territory of Atholville. New Brunswick Route 11 passes through the centre of the municipality south of the town from east to west: this road goes from Quebec in the west to

Shediac Shediac (official in both languages; ''Shédiac'' is colloquial French) is a heavily Acadian town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick. The town is home to the famous Parlee Beach and is known as the "Lobster Capital of the World". It hosts ...

in the southeast. The Val-D'Amour Road (Road 270) provides access from the village to Route 11. The village itself is crossed from east to west by New Brunswick Route 134 which provides access to Tide Head and Campbellton: this road is called Notre-Dame Street in the village. Val-d'Amour Road continues south to Val-d'Amour. The

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, the former

, passes through the village from east to west, north of Notre-Dame Street. The river is navigable but the nearest port is Dalhousie.

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and

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complete the means of transport in the region. There are taxis in Campbellton. The ''Cormier taxi'' connects

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to the Acadian Peninsula and has a stop in the village. In 2015, the province of New Brunswick issued regulations that expanded the boundaries of Atholville by annexation of the service district of St. Arthur, the local service district of Val D’Amours, a portion of the Village of Tide Head and a portion of the local service district of Blair Athol. The effective date of the order was July 1, 2015. The land area of the village grew from 10.25 km² to 119.60 km², according to census data.

Geology

The geological base of Atholville is composed of several rock types. North of Notre-Dame Street in the lowest area there are

Clastic rock Clastic rocks are composed of fragments, or clasts, of pre-existing minerals and rock. A clast is a fragment of geological detritus,Essentials of Geology, 3rd Ed, Stephen Marshak, p. G-3 chunks, and smaller grains of rock broken off other rock ...

s from the Campbellton formation.''Bedrock Geology of New Brunswick''
New Brunswick government, consulted on August 19, 2012 Between this street and Highway 11 are

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rocks from the Dalhousie group. Both types of rocks are

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(394 to 418 million years old). South of Highway 11 rather there are

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and

evaporites An evaporite () is a water-soluble sedimentary mineral deposit that results from concentration and crystallization by evaporation from an aqueous solution. There are two types of evaporite deposits: marine, which can also be described as ocean ...

from the Chaleur formation dating from the Upper Silurian period (418-424 million years ago).

Environment

The ''Booming Grounds'' on the border with Tide Head is an area coming under the ''Joint Plan of Eastern Habitats''.Zelazny (2007), opcit, p. 143-144. They are home to migratory aquatic birds and breeding grounds for birds such as the

Great blue heron The great blue heron (''Ardea herodias'') is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North America and Central America, as well as the Caribbean and the Galápagos ...

, the

Osprey The osprey (''Pandion haliaetus''), , also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor reaching more than in length and across the wings. It is brown o ...

, and various mammals. In addition, up to 2,000 snow geese can be observed between mid-April and late May. There are many rare plants growing here including the western waterweed, the ''jonc délié'', and the Sanicula gregaria. Fourteen species of fish have been recorded in the river, the most common being the Atlantic salmon and the

Slimy sculpin The slimy sculpin (''Cottus cognatus'') is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the family Cottidae, which is the largest sculpin family. They usually inhabit cold rocky streams or lakes across North America, ranging from the Great Lakes, so ...

., New-Brunswick government, online 2007, consulted on 29 November 2012 . Although considered a threatened species, the

wood turtle The wood turtle (''Glyptemys insculpta'') is a species of turtle endemic to North America. It is in the genus '' Glyptemys'', a genus which contains only one other species of turtle: the bog turtle (''Glyptemys muhlenbergii'' ). The wood turtle ...

is common in the region. Despite the imposition of environmental controls, the AV Cell works emitted

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and ash into the atmosphere in 2007 several times for which they were fined in 2009.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Atholville 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. Atholville's population is mostly Acadian but there is also a substantial anglophone minority.

Housing

According to Statistics Canada the village had 1,584 private dwellings in 2016 including 1,539 occupied by residents.

Language

Economy

Employment and income

The 2006 Census by Statistics Canada also provided data on the economy. For people over 15 years old the

Labour force The workforce or labour force is a concept referring to the pool of human beings either in employment or in unemployment. It is generally used to describe those working for a single company or industry, but can also apply to a geographic r ...

rate was then 63.1%, the

Employment-to-population ratio The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development defines the employment rate as the employment-to-population ratio. This is a statistical ratio that measures the proportion of a country's working age population (statistics are often ...

was 59.0%, and the

unemployment Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work during the refer ...

rate was 7.1%. For comparison, those for the whole province were respectively 63.7%, 57.3% and 10.0%.Profiles of communities of 2006 - Atholville - Work
Statistics Canada website, consulted on 20 November 2012. Nearly 1,500 people work in Atholville which is more than the total population of the village. Evolution of unemployment in Atholville Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.7) id:sfondo value:rgb(1,1,1) id:barra value:rgb(0.7,0.9,0.7) ImageSize = width:300 height:200 PlotArea = left:30 bottom:20 top:20 right:30 DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:20 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:5 start:5 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:1 start:0 BackgroundColors = canvas:sfondo BarData= bar:1995 bar:1996 text:1996 bar:1997 bar:1998 bar:1999 bar:2000 bar:2001 text:2001 bar:2002 bar:2003 bar:2004 bar:2005 bar:2006 text:2006 bar:2007 bar:2008 bar:2009 bar:2010 bar:2011 text:2011 PlotData= color:barra width:15 align:left bar:1996 from:0 till: 20 text:19,7 shift:(15,0) bar:2001 from:0 till: 16 text:16,3 shift:(15,0) bar:2006 from:0 till: 7 text:7,1 shift:(15,0) bar:2011 from:0 till: 0 text:n.d. shift:(0,15) ;Sources:
Profiles of communities in 1996 - Atholville - Income and Work
Statistics Canada website
Profiles of communities in 2001 - Atholville - Work
Statistics Canada website
Profiles of communities of 2006 - Atholville - Work
Statistics Canada website Of those aged 15 years and over, 785 people reported profits and 1,085 reported income in 2005.Profiles of communities in 2006 - Atholville - Income and profits
Statistics Canada website, consulted on 20 November 2012. 86.5% also reported hours of unpaid work. The median income then stood at $20,393 before tax and $18,692 after tax compared to the provincial average of $22,000 before tax and $20,063 after tax. Women earned on average $8,330 less than men after tax with an average income of $15,533. On average 72.3% of income came from earnings, 21.1% from government benefits, and 6.4% from other sources. 6.3% of all

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s were below the

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after tax which increased to 7.8% for those under 18 years old. Among the working population, 2.3% of people worked at home, none worked outside the country, 5.3% had no fixed place of work, and 92.4% had a fixed place of work.Profiles of communities in 2006 - Atholville - Place of work
Statistics Canada website, consulted on 20 November 2012. Of workers with a fixed place of work, 37.2% worked in the village, 57.9% worked elsewhere in the county, 1.7% worked in another county, and 3.3% worked in another province.

Main economic sectors

1.4% of jobs were in the agricultural, fisheries and other resources sector, 4.3% were in Construction, 10.7% in manufacturing, 1.4% in wholesale, 21.4% in retail, 1.4% in finance and real estate, 17.1% in health and social services, 7.1% in education, 4.3% in trade services, and 30.0% in other services. The AV Cell Inc. factory, owned by the

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, produces chemical pulp for

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factories in Asia. It has more than 280 employees. The industrial mall houses six industrial companies with a total of one hundred employees in 2011.Renovations in the industrial mall in Atholville
New Brunswick government website, consulted on 9 November 2011 Atholville has several other large employers, such as manufacturers of playground equipment, tyres, wood panelling, toys, and windows, as well as a bakery. The Restigouche Centre is the main commercial centre of the region. The village has several other shops including three car dealerships and a grocery store. Many other products and services are available in Campbellton which has, among others, financial institutions and a NB Liquor store. ''Enterprise Restigouche'' is responsible for economic development.Regional services district 2
, Foundation of local governments and viable regions (Finn Report)], on the New Brunswick government website, consulted on 25 July 2011. File:Usine Av Cell Atholville.JPG, The Av Cell factory. File:Mail industriel Atholville.JPG, The Industrial Mall. File:Chemin Val-d'Amours.JPG, Shops on Val-d'Amour road. File:Caisse populaire Atholville.JPG, The Credit Union.

Arts and culture

Architecture and monuments

The buildings in the Provincial Park were designed by architect Leon R. Kentridge, from the Marshall Macklin Monaghan Limited firm of

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. The coverings and roof are in

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with a gentle slope typical of a ski resort. A War memorial is located east of the Town Hall. The old Athol House Cemetery is the oldest in Restigouche County. There is a monument to the memory of Athol House Chapel. It is located in the river behind the AV Cell factory. The ruins of the landing stage that allowed the supply of wood for the pulp and paper mill until the 1960s are still visible in to the west of the Village.

Languages

According to the ''Official Languages Act'', Atholville is bilingual as English and French are both spoken by more than 20% of the population. In 2011 Atholville became the third municipality in New Brunswick (after

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and Petit-Rocher) to adopt an ordinance on outdoor advertising language requiring bilingual display in English and French. Until then, most of the signage was in English. File:Affiche anglophone Atholville.jpg, An English sign photographed in 2011. File:Affiche bilingue Atholville.jpg, A French sign also photographed in 2011.

Culture

Atholville is briefly mentioned in several novels including ''Le Feu du mauvais temps'' (Fire in bad weather) (1989) by Claude Le Bouthillier. The village is also mentioned in the biographies: ''Ma's Cow: Growing Up in the Canadian Countryside During the Cold War'' (2006) by Patrick Flanagan, ''David Adams Richards of the Miramichi: A Biographical Introduction'' (2010) by Michael Anthony Tremblay and Tony Tremblay, and ''Think Good Thoughts'' (2010) by J.P. (Pat) Lynch. The history, culture and geography of the region are featured at the ''Museum of the Restigouche River'' at Dalhousie. The ''National Historic site of the Battle of Restigouche'' at Pointe-à-la-Croix commemorates this battle.

Attractions

The village has several community services and facilities, including Sugarloaf Provincial Park.

Sports

The village has two football fields, a skating rink, a public pool, Miller Brae Millennium Park, and the Sugarloaf Provincial Park. In summer this park offers a camping area, a bicycle park, slopes for mountain biking, cycle touring, 25 kilometres of hiking trails, a picnic site, and tennis courts.Things to do in Summer
, Sugarloaf Park website, consulted on 27 November 2012. The park is also equipped for

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. In winter the park has twelve slopes for

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and snowboarding,

Snowshoe Snowshoes are specialized outdoor gear for walking over snow. Their large footprint spreads the user's weight out and allows them to travel largely on top of rather than through snow. Adjustable bindings attach them to appropriate winter footwe ...

trails, a naturally illuminated skating rink, and a tubular ice slope.Things to do in Winter
, Sugarloaf Park website, consulted on 27 November 2012. Atholville contributes to the funding of Campbellton Civic Centre with Tide Head. A trail passes through the village towards Tide Head where it joins the

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. A gazebo was built at the top of the Old Mission. There are several unmarked viewing points such as that at boulevard Beauvista. File:Ski Sugarloaf.JPG, The Ski resort on Sugarloaf File:Piscine Atholville.JPG, Public pool File:Contre communautaire Alma d'Atholville.JPG, The Alma Community Centre File:Memorial Civic Center.jpg, Campbellton Civic Centre

Government

The former village is split among Wards 1, 2, and 3 of the city of Campbellton. The municipality has six to eight employees on average, plus seasonal employees.

Budget and taxation

The annual expenditure of Atholville village amounted to 2,936,943 dollars in 2011. Of this amount:Annual report on municipal statistics for New Brunswick - 2012, Fredericton, 2012
Read online
*18.4% was spent on administration, * 7.5% on town planning, * 7.2% on the police, * 6.3% on protection against fire, * 7.1% on the distribution of water, * 0.2% on emergency services, * 0.1% on other protection services, * 22.6% on transport, * 4.1% on sanitation, * 0.0% on public health, * 7.2% on management, *12.4% on recreation and culture, *12.7% on debt costs, and * 1.7% on signage

Regional services commission

Atholville is part of ''Region 2'',The communities in each of 12 Regional Services Commissions (CSR), New Brunswick government website
consulted on 9 November 2012. a regional services commission (CSR) which officially started operations on 1 January 2013.
New Brunswick government, consulted on 1 November 2012. Atholville is represented on the council by the Mayor.
/ref> Mandatory services offered by the CSR are: regional planning, management of solid waste, emergency planning measures, and collaboration on police, planning, and cost sharing of regional infrastructure for sport, recreation and culture. Other services could be added to this list.
New Brunswick government website, consulted on 9 November 2012.

Representation and political trends

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and

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. In

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Atholville is part of the provincial electoral district of

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which is represented in the

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by Greg Davis of the

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. He was elected in 2010. For the Canadian Federal Parliament, Atholville is part of the federal electoral district of Madawaska-Restigouche which is represented in the House of Commons of Canada by

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of the

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. He was elected at the 41st general election in 2011. Atholville is a member of the ''Union of Municipalities of New Brunswick'' and the ''Francophone Association of Municipalities of New Brunswick''.

Education

Versant-Nord school teaches children from kindergarten to 8th year. It is a French public school within sub-district 1 of the Francophone Nord-Est School District. Campbellton also has the Community College of New Brunswick (CCNB) of Campbellton which is also French language while the closest English-speaking community college is the New Brunswick Community College (NBCC) at

Miramichi The name "Miramichi" was first applied to a region in the northeast of New Brunswick, Canada, and has since been applied to other places in Canada and the United States. Although other interpretations have been suggested, it is believed that "Mirami ...

. The nearest francophone university campus is that of the

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has several English language universities. A library service is also available. For over 15 years 42.8% of the population had no certificate, diploma or degree, 22.1% had only a diploma of secondary education or equivalent, and 34.7% of them also held a certificate, diploma or a post-secondary degree. By comparison the rates were 29.4%, 26.0% and 44.6% respectively for the province.Profiles of communities in 2006 - Atholville - Education
Statistics Canada website, consulted on 20 November 2012. In the same age group 9.0% had graduated from a short NBCC program or equivalent, 15.8% had graduated from a long program at NBCC or equivalent, 1.8% had a diploma or a university certificate below a bachelor's degree, and 8.1% had a certificate, diploma or higher degree. From the graduates, 6.4% were trained in education, 2.6% in humanities, 3.8% in social sciences or law, 29.5% in commerce, management or administration, 2.6% science and technology, 15.4% in architecture, engineering or related areas, 2.6% in agriculture, natural resources and conservation, 28.2% in health, parks, recreation and fitness, and 10.3% in personal services, protection or transportation. There were no graduates in arts or communications, mathematics or computer science, nor in areas classified as "other". Post-secondary graduates completed their studies outside the country in 5.1% of cases.

Infrastructure

Atholville, Campbellton, and

cooperate in emergency measures. Atholville bought the 911 emergency service from Campbellton. The nearest detachment of the

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is in Campbellton. Campbellton has the French-speaking Restigouche Hospital Centre and the English-speaking Campbellton Regional Hospital. New Brunswick hospitals are bilingual overall but unilingual in their jurisdictions. Campbellton also has an ''Ambulance New Brunswick'' station. The village is connected to the NB Power network and also has an industrial-sized generator at the Town Hall. Atholville has a water and sewerage network with a sewerage treatment plant. The village of Val-d'Amour is connected to the Atholville water system. Atholville also has an agreement with Campbellton and Tide Head for water supply. Many publications are available but French-speakers have primarily the daily '' L'Acadie Nouvelle'', published in Caraquet, and the weekly ''L'Étoile'', published in

. There is also the weekly ''L'Aviron'' published in Campbellton. English-speakers in turn have the daily ''

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'', published in Saint John, and the weekly ''Campbellton Tribune''. There is no television station in the region but Radio-Canada Acadie (CBAFT-DT), Ici RDI,

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, and

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are the main French television networks. The main French radio stations are the

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and CIMS-FM from Balmoral. English-speakers have

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, and

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. English radio stations include

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and CKNB in Campbellton. Atholville has a

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. The population also has access to the cell phone network and high-speed internet. The main provider is

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. The nearest offices of Service New Brunswick and

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are in Campbellton.

Religion

Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes is a Roman Catholic church which is part of the Diocese of Bathurst. The priest is Father Claude Benoit. There is also a gospel chapel. The region is part of the Anglican Diocese of Fredericton and Campbellton has several other places of worship for Protestants. The parish cemetery is located between the church and Saint-Louis street.

Notable people

*Lewis Charles Ayles (1927-), lawyer and politician, born in Atholville; *

Edmond Blanchard Edmond P. Blanchard (May 31, 1954 – June 27, 2014) was a Canadian jurist and politician. Blanchard was born in Atholville, New Brunswick. He studied at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree ...

(1954-), politician, born in Atholville; *Joseph Claude (died in 1796), Chief of Listuguj; *Robert Ferguson ( Logierait (Scotland) 1768 - Campbellton 1851), businessman, justice, judge, official and militia officer; *Bobby Hachey (1932-2006), artist, born in Atholville; * Samuel Lee ( Concord (

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) 1756 - Shediac 1805), official, judge, businessman and politician.

Notes and references

Notes

References

External links

Atholville website
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