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Southern Victoria is a
village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
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 was formed through the 2023 New Brunswick local governance reforms.


History

Southern Victoria was incorporated on January 1, 2023 via the amalgamation of the former villages of Aroostook and
Perth-Andover Perth-Andover is a former village in Victoria County, New Brunswick, Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada. It held village status prior to 2023. It is now part of the village of Southern Victoria. History Andover was originally called Little ...
as well as the concurrent annexation of adjacent unincorporated areas.


Geography

The village is divided by the Saint John River.


Attractions

Southern Victoria is host to the annual Gathering of the Scots Festival at Veteran's Field on the last weekend in May and the Larlee Creek Hullabaloo in August, held at Baird's Campground. Other major events in the Village are the Tuff Muck Challenge on the last Saturday in July and the Dam Run marathon on the first Saturday in October.


Infrastructure

Perth-Andover Electric Light Commission (PAELC) is one of three municipal power utilities left in New Brunswick, and the only one completely independent of
NB Power New Brunswick Power Corporation (), operating as NB Power (), is the primary electric utility in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of New Brunswick. NB Power is a Vertical integration, vertically-integrated Crown corpor ...
. The residents of the municipality pay the lowest power rates in the province.


Notable people

* Matt Andersen - Blues musician * John B. McNair- 23rd Premier of New Brunswick, 1940 to 1952


See also

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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 municipalities in New Brunswick New Brunswick is the Population of Canada by province and territory, eighth-most populous province in Canada, with 775,610 residents as of the 2021 Canadian Census, 2021 census, and the List of Canadian provinces and territories by area#Land ar ...


References

2023 establishments in New Brunswick 2023 New Brunswick local governance reform Communities in Victoria County, New Brunswick Populated places established in 2023 Villages in New Brunswick {{VictoriaCountyNB-geo-stub