St. George is a community in the Rural Community of Eastern Charlotte, in Charlotte County,

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, Canada; it was a town until the end of 2022 and is now part of the rural community of

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. It is located where the

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flows into the

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, between

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and Lake Utopia.

History

The area was surveyed in 1786. First called Magaguadavic, it was renamed Granite Town after the nearby red-

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quarries. In 1829 it was renamed to the current name, and a post office was established. By 1898 the town's port served the Shore Line Railway, and there were three hotels, four churches, 22 stores, and two mills. It was incorporated as a town in 1904. During the Second World War, two military bases were opened near the town: A Canadian Army training base known as "Camp Utopia" and a RCAF/RAF Air Station at Pennfield Ridge. By the late 1950s, both bases were closed; Camp Utopia relocated to Camp Gagetown, later

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, and the airfield at Pennfield Ridge served as the first commercial airport for the city of Saint John. From 1983 to 1985, Adex Mining Inc. operated a tungsten/molybdenum mine 40 km north of the town, at Mount Pleasant. Primary employers are aquaculture and a J. D. Irving lumber mill, Lake Utopia Paper. St. George Power runs a

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generating station on the Magaguadavic River. It has an installed capacity of 15 MW. It is a run of the river plant, meaning there is no water storage in reservoirs as there is at the

Mactaquac Dam The Mactaquac Dam is an embankment dam used to generate hydroelectricity in Mactaquac, New Brunswick. It dams the waters of the Saint John River and is operated by NB Power with a capacity to generate 670 megawatts of electricity from 6 turbin ...

. On 1 January 2023, St. George amalgamated with the village of Blacks Harbour and all or part of five

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s to form the incorporated rural community of

. The community's name remains in official use.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, St. George 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.

Language

References

External links

Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint George, New Brunswick Communities in Charlotte County, New Brunswick Former towns in New Brunswick Mining communities in New Brunswick 2023 disestablishments in New Brunswick