Burnsville is a community in the
Canadian province
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Constitution of Canada, Canadian Constitution. In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North Amer ...
of
New Brunswick
New Brunswick is a Provinces and Territories of Canada, province of Canada, bordering Quebec to the north, Nova Scotia to the east, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the northeast, the Bay of Fundy to the southeast, and the U.S. state of Maine to ...
.
It is situated in
Paquetville, a parish of
Gloucester County.
History
When settled in 1874, the community initially took the name of Milltown. The community's current name is derived from that of
Kennedy Francis Burns, a Canadian politician and President of the
Caraquet and Gulf Shore Railway, the same company that built a railroad through Burnsville.
See also
*
List of communities in New Brunswick
This is a list of communities in New Brunswick, a province in Canada. For the purposes of this list, a community is defined as either an incorporated municipality, an Indian reserve, or an unincorporated community inside or outside a municipal ...
*
List of people from Gloucester County, New Brunswick
References
Communities in Gloucester County, New Brunswick
{{GloucesterCountyNB-geo-stub