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Northumberland County is located in northeastern New Brunswick, Canada. [2] Geography. Northumberland County is covered by thick forests, whose products stimulate the economy. The highest peaks in the province, including Mount Carleton lie in the northwestern corner of the county.
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The city of Miramichi was formed in 1995 through the forced amalgamation of two towns, Newcastle and Chatham, and several smaller communities, including Douglastown, Loggieville, and Nelson. Also the local service districts of Nordin, Moorefield, Chatham Head, and Douglasfield. The amalgamation also included portions of the former local service dis...
Mi'kmaq and French communities
Long prior to European settlement, the Miramichi region was home to members of the Mi'kmaq first nation. For the Mi'kmaq, Beaubears Island, at the junction of the Northwest and Main Southwest branches of the Miramichi Riverwas a natural meeting point. Following the European discovery of the Americas, the Miramichi became part of the French colony of Acadia. About 1648, Nicolas Denys, Sieur de Fronsac, established a fort and trading post, Fort Fronsac, on the Miramichi. This establishment was...
Scottish and Loyalist immigration
The French were defeated at Quebec (1759) and Montreal (1760), and the remaining Miramichi settlement was subsequently burned to the ground by British Commodore John Byron (Foul-Weather Jack) in 1760. The French North American colonies (apart from Saint Pierre and Miquelon) were ceded to the British in the 1763 Treaty of Paris. The Miramichi thus became a part of the British colony of Nova Scotia, and later New Brunswick. Benjamin Marston, a surveyor and the first sheriff, reported in 1785 th...
Great Miramichi Fire of 1825
In 1825, a large forest fire, among the worst in recorded history of North America, devastated a number of communities in northern New Brunswick.
The Miramichi area’s economy is primarily focused on mining, fishing and forestry. Other sectors include tourism, customer contact centres, manufacturing, and the provincial and federal government. The service sector is the city's largest employer. The two best known call centres are the Canadian Firearms Program, and the Phoenix pay system.The reg...
Roads
Miramichi has good highway connections to other major centres in New Brunswick offered via Highways 8 (west to Fredericton; north to Bathurst and Campbellton) and 11 (south to Moncton, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia). The Plaster Rock – Renous highway (Route 108) offers the quickest connection to major centres in Quebec, Ontario, and points west. For many years, the only bridge at Miramichi was a narrow, historic crossing called the Morrissy Bridge, at Newcastle. Ferry service facilitat...
Bus
Miramichi Transitalso operates local bus service within the city.
Water
The towns of Chatham and Newcastle were formerly important ports for northeastern New Brunswick. Dredging, however, was necessary to maintain a deep enough channel for most ships to cross between the barrier dune islands at the mouth of Miramichi Bay. Ocean-going ships entering the port must have a shallow draft, and must navigate the ancient, meandering course of the drowned Miramichi River channel through the inner Bay. HTI / High Tech Industries owns and operates the marine terminal situat...
Roots
As in other regions of the Maritimes, Miramichi culture is firmly grounded in the Mi'kmaq, Acadian, English, Scottish, and Irish traditions of the region's founding population, particularly in the fishing, sailing and lumbering industries. Every bend in the rivers, from Push and Be Damned Rapids to the Turnip Patch has a distinctive name. These roots and the lives of their ancestors provided inspiration for the novels of local author David Adams Richards, the tales and folklore of Herb Curtis...
Festivals
Local festivals which celebrate Miramichi culture, and the ancestral roots of the original settlers include: 1. Miramichi Folksong Festival 2. Annual Pow-wows hosted on the nearby Eel Ground First Nation, Burnt Church First Nation, and Metepenagiag Mi'kmaq Nation 3. La Fête Nationale des Acadiens—Acadian Day 4. Miramichi Scottish Festival 5. Canada's Irish Festival on the Miramichi 6. Miramichi Fiddle Festival Other local festivals include: 1. Canada Days Festival 2. Miramichi Rock 'n Roll Fe...
Newspapers
1. The Miramichi Leader 2. The Telegraph-Journal
The city offers a full range of summer and winter sports programs and facilities, including recreation centres, swimming pools, a golf course, and rinks for skating, curling and ice hockey. The city, however, is best known as a haven for outdoor sport enthusiasts. The river offers whitewater opportunities for canoe and kayak, and angling for Atlant...
Miramichi is served by 11 public schools operated by the New Brunswick Department of Education. Post-secondary education, including a distance education component from the University of New Brunswick, is offered primarily through the Miramichi campus of New Brunswick Community College.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Miramichi had a population of 17,692 living in 7,990 of its 8,484 total private dwellings, a change of 0.9% from its 2016 population of 17,537. With a land area of 178.98 km2 (69.10 sq mi), it had a population density of 98.8/km2(256.0/sq mi) in 2021. In the 2001 Census of Canada, 48....
The Miramichi Riveris the centre of all activity. The communities that compose the city line its banks. Beaubears Island, located in the middle of the Miramichi River between Newcastle and Nelson-Miramichi, is home to two National Historic Sites, Boishébert National Historic Site of Canada and Beaubears Island Shipbuilding National Historic Site of...
Monaghan, Ireland. In 1999 Miramichi was twinned with the County Monaghan in Ireland. Monaghan, a county of some 55,000 people, is located in the north-east of the Republic of Ireland on the border with Northern Ireland. This link denotes the strong ancestral bonds between Ireland and New Brunswick and Canada generally. Each year delegations from M...
Formed in 1873 from part of Victoria County. Northumberland County: 44,952 46,204 -2.7 Newcastle, now part of Miramichi: 12868.78 3.5 One of the original 8 counties. Queens County: 10,472 11,086 -5.5 Gagetown: 3686.05 2.8 One of the original 8 counties. Restigouche County: 30,955 32,594 -5 Dalhousie: 8580 3.6 Formed in 1837 from part ...
County NamePopulation, 2016 [2]Population, 2011Population, % Change29,15828,8461.126,22027,019-325,42826,549-4.278,44479,943-1.9La contea di Northumberland è una contea del Nuovo Brunswick, Canada di 48.355 abitanti, che ha come capoluogo Miramichi .
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