Beaver Harbour is a community on the Fundy shore of

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, Canada. Most of the community forms the

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of Beaver Harbour, which was established in 1971. It is also a

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. Since the formation of the LSD, the community has expanded past the original boundaries into the LSD of the parish of Pennfield. In 1866 it had about 30 resident families, and grew to a population of 150 by 1871, the 500 in 1898. As of 2021, the population was 291. It is the site of the Lighthouse Point Light, originally built in 1875 and subsequently rebuilt. It is a fiberglass tapered cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern.

History

Beaver Harbour was first settled in 1783 by

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loyalists who had fled

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as a result of the

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. It became the first settlement in

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to forbid slavery, with 49 names of families being attached to a founding constitution which barred slave owners from living there.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Beaver Harbour had a population of 291 living in 130 of its 142 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 277. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

References

Communities in Charlotte County, New Brunswick Designated places in New Brunswick Local service districts of Charlotte County, New Brunswick {{CharlotteCountyNB-geo-stub