Charlotte County, New Brunswick


Charlotte County is a county of New Brunswick, Canada.
It was formed in 1784 when New Brunswick was partitioned from Nova Scotia. Once a layer of local government, the county seat was abolished with the New Brunswick Equal Opportunity program in 1966. Counties continue to be used as census subdivisions by Statistics Canada.
It is in the southwestern corner of the province, bordering the US state of Maine. Located at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains, it has a rugged terrain including Mount Pleasant. The St. Croix, Magaguadavic, and Digdegaush rivers drain into the Bay of Fundy. The county includes the large, populated islands of Grand Manan, White Head, Deer, and Campobello.
Eighteen per cent of the workforce is employed in aquaculture. Connors Bros., the largest sardine canning facility in North America, is located in Blacks Harbour. Cooke Aquaculture is an Atlantic salmon farming company, founded and headquartered in St. George. A paper mill, operated by JD Irving, is in Utopia, and Flakeboard Co Ltd operates outside of St. Stephen.
Governance is in the form of New Brunswick municipalities in the case of the towns of St. Andrews, St. George, and St. Stephen, the villages of Grand Manan and Blacks Harbour, and the rural community of Campobello Island. The remaining parts of the county are administered as local service districts of the Southwest New Brunswick Regional Service Commission, except Clarendon, which is part of RSC 11 in neighbouring Sunbury County.

Census data

Census divisions

Official nameDesignationArea: km2 2016 population
St. StephenTown4,415
Grand MananVillage2,360
St. AndrewsTown1,786
St. GeorgeTown1,517
Saint GeorgeParish2,141
PennfieldParish2,170
Saint StephenParish1,839
Saint DavidParish1,529
Saint JamesParish1,186
Fundy BayLSD60.241,167
Dennis-WestonLSD43.941,023
Blacks HarbourVillage894
Campobello IslandRural community872
West IslesParish797
LepreauParish707
Saint PatrickParish689
Saint CroixParish657
DufferinParish573
Saint AndrewsParish553
Western Charlotte part BLSD28.97534
Western Charlotte part ALSD162.3435
DumbartonParish335
Beaver HarbourLSD2.25277
Grand MananParish145
ClarendonParish63

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Power generation

Hydroelectric dams operate in St. George and St. Stephen, though the latter is being decommissioned.

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