Beaver Harbour, New Brunswick

This article is about the community. For the local service district, see Pennfield Parish, New Brunswick § Beaver Harbour.

Beaver Harbour
Local service district
Beaver Harbour in 1920
Beaver Harbour Location within New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 45°04′23″N66°44′34″W / 45.07306°N 66.74278°W / 45.07306; -66.74278
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	Charlotte
Electoral Districts Federal	New Brunswick Southwest
Provincial	Charlotte-The Isles
Area
• Total	2.25 km2 (0.87 sq mi)
Population  (2021) [1]
• Total	291
• Density	129.3/km2 (335/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	5.1%
• Dwellings	142
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)
Postal code(s)	E5H
Area code	506
Highways	Route 778

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. ^[2] 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.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 1866 it had about 30 resident families, and grew to a population of 150 by 1871, the 500 in 1898. ^[3] As of 2021, the population was 291. ^[1]

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 5.1% from its 2016 population of 277. With a land area of 2.25 km² (0.87 sq mi), it had a population density of 129.3/km² (335.0/sq mi) in 2021. ^[8]

References

1. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (9 February 2022). "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Beaver Harbour, Local service district (LSD) [Designated place], New Brunswick". www12.statcan.gc.ca.
2. "Regulation 71-17 under the Municipalities Act (O. C. 71-127)". The Royal Gazette. 129. Fredericton, NB, Canada: 154. 3 March 1971. Filed February 17, 1971.
3. "Beaver Harbour". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
4. "Lighthouse Point Lighthouse". LighthouseFriends. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
5. "The Loyalist Gazette Vol. LIII, No. 2, Fall 2015" (PDF). www.uelac.org.
6. "N.B. community first in British North America to forbid slavery". Atlantic. 26 February 2015. Archived from the original on 1 March 2015.
7. "Beaver Harbour" (PDF). Heritage Charlotte.
8. "Population and dwelling counts: Canada and designated places". Statistics Canada. 9 February 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2025.