Knowlesville, New Brunswick
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Knowlesville is a small community in Carleton County in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Knowlesville is in Aberdeen Parish, with a population in the 2011 Census of 981.[1] It is located approximately 20 km east of Florenceville-Bristol, New Brunswick, along the Knowlesville Road.
Mount Frederick Clarke in Knowlesville has an elevation of 531 meters or 1742 feet.[2]
Knowlesville is close to Skedaddle Ridge, where a number of Skedaddlers, draft evaders from the American Civil War lived during the 1860s.
It was named for Rev. Charles Knowles,[3] a Free Will Baptist minister from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia,[4] who persuaded some local fishermen to take up farming in the area in 1861.[5]
Notable people
- Earle Avery - Canadian & U.S. Hall of Fame harness racing driver/trainer.
