Beaver Harbour, New Brunswick
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Beaver Harbour is a community on the Fundy shore of New Brunswick, Canada.
Most of the community forms the Local service district of Beaver Harbour, which was established in 1971.[1] 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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In 1866 it had about 30 resident families, and grew to a population of 150 by 1871, the 500 in 1898.[2] As of 2021, the population was 291.[3]
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]
History
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,[5] with 49 names of families being attached to a founding constitution which barred slave owners from living there.[6][7]
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Beaver Harbour had a population of 291 living in 130 of its 142 total private dwellings, a change of Script error: No such module "Percentage". from its 2016 population of 277. With a land area of Template:Cvt, it had a population density of Template:Pop density in 2021.[8]
References
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