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Local service district in New Brunswick, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beaver Harbour is a community on the Fundy shore of New Brunswick, Canada.
Beaver Harbour | |
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Coordinates: 45°04′23″N 66°44′34″W | |
Country | Canada |
Province | New Brunswick |
County | Charlotte |
Electoral Districts Federal | New Brunswick Southwest |
Provincial | Charlotte-The Isles |
Area | |
• Total | 2.25 km2 (0.87 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[1] | |
• Total | 291 |
• Density | 129.3/km2 (335/sq mi) |
• Pop 2016-2021 | 5.1% |
• Dwellings | 142 |
Time zone | UTC-4 (AST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-3 (ADT) |
Postal code(s) | |
Area code | 506 |
Highways | Route 778 |
Most of the community forms the Local service district of Beaver Harbour, which was established in 1971.[2] It is also a census subdivision of Census Canada. Since the formation of the LSD, the community has expanded past the original boundaries into the LSD of the parish of Pennfield.[citation needed]
In 1866 it had about 30 resident families, and grew to a population of 150 by 1871, the 500 in 1898.[3] As of 2021, the population was 291.[1]
It is the site of the Lighthouse Point Light, originally built in 1875 and subsequently rebuilt. It is a fiberglass tapered cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern.[4]
Beaver Harbour was first settled in 1783 by Quaker loyalists who had fled Pennsylvania as a result of the American Revolution. It became the first settlement in British North America to forbid slavery, with 49 names of families being attached to a founding constitution which barred slave owners from living there.[5][6]
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