New Bandon-Salmon Beach
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New Bandon-Salmon Beach was a local service district in New Brunswick, Canada. It was merged into the rural district of Chaleur on 1 January 2023,[1] with a small area now part of the city of Bathurst.
New Bandon was named after the town of Bandon in Ireland. It was located 12 km (7.5 mi) east of the city of Bathurst, New Brunswick on Nepisiguit Bay.
History
New Bandon-Salmon Beach was located on the historical territory of the Mi'kmaq people. The seigneurie of Nepisiguit, containing the area that would become New Bandon-Salmon Beach, was ceded to France on 19 March 1691.[2] The community of New Bandon was founded in 1819 by 70 Protestant families from Bandon, County Cork in Ireland.[3] New Bandon was touched by the 1825 Miramichi fire, which consumed approximately 16,000 km2 (6,200 mi2) of forest in northeastern New Brunswick.[4] Salmon Beach was also founded by Irish immigrants between 1820 and 1830.[5] The parish of New Bandon was established in 1831.[3]
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, New Bandon-Salmon Beach had a population of 832 living in 393 of its 512 total private dwellings, a change of 2.3% from its 2016 population of 813. With a land area of 345.8 km2 (133.5 sq mi), it had a population density of 2.4/km2 (6.2/sq mi) in 2021.[6]
| Name[6] | Parish[7] | Population (2021)[6] |
Population (2016)[6] |
Change[6] | Land area (km2)[6] |
Population density[6] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Bandon-Salmon Beach part A | New Bandon | 487 | 459 | +6.1% | 191.66 | 2.5/km2 |
| New Bandon-Salmon Beach part B | Bathurst | 345 | 354 | −2.5% | 154.14 | 2.2/km2 |
| Total | — | 832 | 813 | +2.3% | 345.8 | 2.4/km2 |
