New Bandon-Salmon Beach

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This article is about the local service district. For the civil parish and rural census subdivision, see New Bandon Parish, New Brunswick.
New Bandon-Salmon Beach is located in New Brunswick
New Bandon-Salmon Beach
New Bandon-Salmon Beach
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Location of the Parish of New Bandon-Salmon Beach in New Brunswick

New Bandon-Salmon Beach is a local service district in New Brunswick, Canada. New Bandon was named after the town of Bandon in Ireland. It is located west of the site of the Village Historique Acadien, an important tourism destination in northeastern New Brunswick.

History[]

See also: History of New Brunswick and List of historic places in Gloucester County, New Brunswick
Dressed grindstones awaiting shipment, ca 1920

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.[1]

Notable people[]

Main article: List of people from Gloucester County, New Brunswick

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ 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

Coordinates: 47°39′58″N 65°32′10″W / 47.666°N 65.536°W / 47.666; -65.536

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