New Bandon-Salmon Beach
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New Bandon-Salmon Beach was a local service district in New Brunswick, Canada. It is now mostly part of the Chaleur rural district,[1] with a small area now part of the city of Bathurst.
New Bandon was named after the town of Bandon in Ireland. It is located immediately East of the City of Bathurst, New Brunswick on Nepisiguit Bay.
History
It was a centre of grindstone production in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries until about 1945. In the later years, pulp-stones were produced. There was also a shipbuilding industry associated with the grindstone exports.[2]
Notable people
See also
References
- ^ "Chaleur rural district: RD 3". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
- ^ Donat Robichaud, "L'Industrie des Meulles à New Bandon", in La revue d'histoire de la Société historique Nicolas Denys, Vol. XIII, No. 3, Sep-Dec 1995, pp 5-42
47°39′58″N 65°32′10″W / 47.666°N 65.536°W
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