Havelock, New Brunswick is a Canadian rural community in Kings County,

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. Havelock is at the junction of Route 885 and Route 880. There is a small

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nearby. The community is situated on a large lime deposit and its extraction has driven the local economy, beginning with a Lafarge cement plant constructed in the 1960s and current mothballed since the early 1990s. Graymont operates a lime quarry and

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to supply eastern Canada and

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with 300 tonnes per day.

History

Havelock was named after Sir Henry Havelock and was previously known as Butternut Ridge.

Notable people

* Lily May Perry, botanist *

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History

Notable people

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