Bathurst is a city in northern New Brunswick with a population of 12,157 and the 4th largest metropolitan area in New Brunswick as defined by Census Canada with a population of 31,387 as of 2021. The City of Bathurst overlooks Nepisiguit Bay, part of Chaleur Bay and is at the estuary of the Nepisiguit River.
Tracadie-Sheila is a former town in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada. It is now part of the Regional Municipality of Tracadie.
Chatham is an urban neighbourhood in the city of Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada.
The Diocese of Bathurst is a Roman Catholic suffragan of the Archdiocese of Moncton. It has its cathedral episcopal see, Sacred Heart Cathedral, in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada.
Théotime Blanchard was a teacher, farmer, merchant and politician in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Gloucester County from 1870 to 1875 and from 1892 to 1894 in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick and Gloucester in the House of Commons of Canada from 1894 to 1900 as a Conservative member.
Patrick George Ryan was a leather manufacturer and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Gloucester County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1876 to 1892 as a Liberal.
Theobald Matthew Burns was a lumber merchant and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Gloucester County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1899 to 1908 as a Conservative member.
Burnsville is a community in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It is situated in Paquetville, a parish of Gloucester County.
Stonehaven is a Canadian rural community in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, in the parish of New Bandon. Situated about 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Bathurst on Route 11, Stonehaven is on the southern shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.
Frederick Temple Blackwood Young, better known at F.T.B. Young, was a business leader and politician from Caraquet, New Brunswick, Canada.
The Common Schools Act of 1871 was legislation of the Canadian Province of New Brunswick, passed by the 22nd New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, which replaced the Parish Schools Act of 1858. The legislation aimed to abolish church-run schooling in New Brunswick and replace it with a system of government-run "common schools." The case of Maher v. Town Council of Portland was initiated as a result, and in the end, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council upheld the Act. The Act was stridently opposed by the Roman Catholic Church and its adherents, and a series of clashes between New Brunswick Catholics and the provincial government culminated in the shooting of two people following riots at Caraquet in 1875, after which the Act was substantially amended to implement a joint religious/secular schooling system.
Tetagouche Falls is a waterfall and former hydro-electric dam site near the settlement of South Tetagouche, in the Eastern Canadian province of New Brunswick on the Tetagouche River. It is located approximately 9 km west of the town of Bathurst.
Caraquet is a town in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada.
The Caraquet and Gulf Shore Railway was a short line railway on the south shore of Chaleur Bay in New Brunswick that ran for 75 miles between Bathurst and Tracadie with a spur line to Shippagan. Completed in 1890, it became part of the Canadian National Railway in 1923 as the Caraquet Subdivision, remaining in operation until 1986.
Augustus Henry Novelli was a London-based physician who graduated Cambridge University in 1845. He lived for a time at Sydenham Hill. He went on to become involved in the Consolidated Bank Limited, and eventually one of its directors. He was in 1870 a plaintiff in Smith & Novelli v Lay, a suit filed in Court of Chancery, over finance to the Meiji government of Imperial Japan.
Patrick J. Burns was the inaugural Mayor of Bathurst, New Brunswick, from the foundation of the Town in October 1912 until his untimely death in office of heart disease on 23 February 1915.
Established in 1914, the Bathurst Power and Paper Company was a combined logging, lumber mill and wood-pulp paper company that supplied its own electric power from Nepisiguit Grand Falls. Its operations were centred at Bathurst, New Brunswick. After changing hands several times over the course of a century, Smurfit-Stone closed the mill located in East Bathurst in 2006, and sold the site to a redevelopment firm. The redeveloper, which was already defunct by January 2016, was fined $150,000 in July 2016 under the New Brunswick Clean Environment Act.
Herman Finger (1856-1929) was a lumberman who owned and operated various lumber companies that operated in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. He also served as the first mayor of The Pas after its establishment in 1912.
The Louis Mailloux Affair was a series of violent events similar to a jacquerie that occurred in the town of Caraquet, New Brunswick (Canada), in January 1875.
