Dipper Harbour is a community on Route 790 in

Saint John County, New Brunswick Saint John County (2021 population: 76,558) is located in southern New Brunswick, Canada. The city of Saint John dominates the county. Elsewhere in the county, tourism is focused around the Bay of Fundy. Census subdivisions Communities The ...

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. Dipper Harbour is located on the

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, 5.24 km E of

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: Musquash Parish, St. John County: named for a species of duck known as the

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or dipper duck: PO 1855-1939: in 1866 Dipper Harbour was a fishing and farming community with about 23 resident families: in 1871 it had a post office, a church and a population of 200.Government of Canada
Official Website. The HMS Plumper was wrecked here in 1812, after capturing three small American privateer ships as part of the

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.Ingersoll, Ernest, "Down East Latch Strings", pg95-100 The following are a list of public schools in the community:

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