New Bandon-Salmon Beach
New Bandon-Salmon Beach was a local service district in New Brunswick, Canada. It was merged into the Chaleur Rural District on 1 January 2023,[1] with a small area now part of the city of Bathurst.
New Bandon was named after the town of Bandon in Ireland.[2] It was located 12 km (7.5 mi) east of the city of Bathurst, New Brunswick on Nepisiguit Bay.
History
New Bandon-Salmon Beach was located on the historical territory of the Mi'kmaq people. The seigneurie of Nepisiguit, containing the area that would become New Bandon-Salmon Beach, was ceded to France on 19 March 1691.[3] The community of New Bandon was founded in 1819 by 70 Protestant families from Bandon, County Cork in Ireland.[4] New Bandon was touched by the 1825 Miramichi fire, which consumed approximately 16,000 km2 (6,200 mi2) of forest in northeastern New Brunswick.[5] Salmon Beach was also founded by Irish immigrants between 1820 and 1830.[6] The parish of New Bandon was established in 1831.[4]
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, New Bandon-Salmon Beach had a population of 832 living in 393 of its 512 total private dwellings, a change of 2.3% from its 2016 population of 813. With a land area of 345.8 km2 (133.5 sq mi), it had a population density of 2.4/km2 (6.2/sq mi) in 2021.[7]
| Name[7] | Parish[8] | Population (2021)[7] |
Population (2016)[7] |
Change[7] | Land area (km2)[7] |
Population density[7] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Bandon-Salmon Beach part A | New Bandon | 487 | 459 | +6.1% | 191.66 | 2.5/km2 |
| New Bandon-Salmon Beach part B | Bathurst | 345 | 354 | −2.5% | 154.14 | 2.2/km2 |
| Total | — | 832 | 813 | +2.3% | 345.8 | 2.4/km2 |
See also
References
- ↑ "Chaleur rural district: RD 3". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
- ↑ "Place Names of New Brunswick: New Bandon". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Retrieved July 5, 2026.
- ↑ Ganong, William (1899). A monograph of historic sites in the province of New Brunswick (Map). Map 39.
- 1 2 Ganong 1904, p. 153.
- ↑ Webster 1942, pp. 61–62.
- ↑ Ganong 1904, p. 170.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Population and dwelling counts: Canada and designated places". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
- ↑ "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions, census subdivisions (municipalities) and designated places, 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (New Brunswick)". Statistics Canada. February 7, 2018. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
Bibliography
- Webster, J. Clarence (1942). Historical Guide to New Brunswick. Fredericton: New Brunswick Government Bureau of Information and Tourist Travel.
- Ganong, William Francis (1904). A Monograph of the Origins of the Settlements in New Brunswick. Ottawa: J. Hope.
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