Balls Lake

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Balls Lake
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Balls Lake photographed in December 2009 during ISS Expedition 22
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Balls Lake
Location Simonds Parish, Saint John County, New Brunswick
Coordinates 45°14′17.4″N65°53′44.6″W / 45.238167°N 65.895722°W / 45.238167; -65.895722 (Disappointment Lake)
Part ofEast Fundy Composite [1]
Basin  countriesCanada
Surface area128.83 ha (318.3 acres) [1]

Balls Lake is a lake located in Simonds Parish, [2] Saint John County, New Brunswick. [3] Located just a few kilometers from the city limits of Saint John, [4] Balls Lake lake has its own watershed, with the lake draining to McKenzie Brook. [5] : 21  Balls Lake has been recorded containing multiple fish species including brook trout, lake chubs, and American eels. [5] : 22  Additionally, it is part of the Balls Lake Formation, a formation dating back to around the Carboniferous period. [6]

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History

As early as the 19th century, Balls Lake has had its own fishing club known as the Balls Lake Fishing Club, [7] which previously had its own club house until it was destroyed during a forest fire around June 4, 1903. [8] [9] Following a meeting held by the club later that year, a new club house was set to be built. [10] Balls Lake additionally had a lumber mill operating as recent as the late 19th century. [11] The lake has also had speckled trout introduced to it, with 518 being introduced from Big Salmon River in 1951. [12]

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References

  1. 1 2 Warner, Matthew G.; Andrews, Samuel; MacMillan, John L.; Lowles, Andrew G. (November 2023). "Past and Present Distribution and Identification of Extant Native Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) Populations in the Canadian Maritime Provinces". Northeastern Naturalist. 30 (23): 15. doi:10.1656/045.030.m2301 . Retrieved May 10, 2024.
  2. ↑ Profile of census tracts in Fredericton, Moncton and Saint John, 2006 Census : map volume. Ottawa: Statistics Canada. 2009. ISBN   978-0-660-63533-0 . Retrieved May 10, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Balls Lake". geonames.nrcan.gc.ca. Government of Canada . Retrieved May 10, 2024.
  4. ↑ Hickman, Albert (1900). Handbook of New Brunswick. Fredericton, New Brunswick. p. 64. Retrieved May 10, 2024.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. 1 2 "Project Eider Rock Environmental Impact Assessment Report" (PDF). New Brunswick Department of Environment. August 2009. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
  6. ↑ Park, Adrian F.; Treat, Robert L.; Barr, Sandra M.; White, Chris E.; Miller, Brent V.; Reynolds, Peter H.; Hamilton, Michael A. (January 2014). "Structural setting and age of the Partridge Island block, southern New Brunswick, Canada: a link to the Cobequid Highlands of northern mainland Nova Scotia" . Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 51 (1): 1–24. doi:10.1139/cjes-2013-0120. ISSN   0008-4077 . Retrieved May 10, 2024.
  7. ↑ Cunningham, April (August 4, 2015). "Property owner wants to open private club". Telegraph-Journal . ProQuest   1700874805 . Retrieved May 10, 2024.
  8. ↑ "BIG LOSS AT BALL'S LAKE". St. John Daily Sun. June 6, 1903. p. 1. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
  9. ↑ "A NEW CLUB HOUSE". St. John Daily Sun. September 15, 1903. p. 2. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
  10. ↑ "BALL'S LAKE CLUB HOUSE". St. John Daily Sun. August 22, 1903. p. 2. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
  11. ↑ "Local Matters". St. John Daily Sun. December 22, 1896. p. 8. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
  12. ↑ "A Report of the Fish Culture Development Branch of the Conservation and Development Service" (PDF). Department of Fisheries of Canada. 1951. p. 6. Retrieved May 10, 2024.
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