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St. George, New Brunswick

Unincorporated settlement in New Brunswick, Canada

Field	Value
official_name	St. George
native_name
image_skyline	St. George, New Brunswick(IMG 02663).JPG
image_caption	Magaguadavic River gorge and the St. George Power hydro plant
image_seal	St George NB seal.png
nickname	Granite Town
motto	A Community Strong
pushpin_map	New Brunswick
pushpin_label_position	top
pushpin_map_caption	Location within New Brunswick.
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Canada
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_type3	Municipality
subdivision_name1	New Brunswick
subdivision_name2	Charlotte
subdivision_name3	Eastern Charlotte
established_title	Settled
established_date	1783
established_title2	Incorporated
established_date2	1904
established_title3
area_footnotes
area_land_km2	16.17
elevation_footnotes	tags--
population_total	1,579
population_as_of	2021
population_footnotes
population_density_km2	97.7
population_blank1_title	Change (2016–21)
population_blank1	4.1%
population_blank2_title	Dwellings
population_blank2	751
postal_code_type	Postal code(s)
postal_code	E5C
area_code	506
website
timezone	AST
utc_offset	-4
timezone_DST	ADT
utc_offset_DST	-3
blank_name	Highways

blank_info

blank1_name	NTS Map
blank2_name	GNBC Code

Note

the community

St. George is a community in the Rural Community of Eastern Charlotte, in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada; it was a town until the end of 2022 and is now part of the rural community of Eastern Charlotte. It is located where the Magaguadavic River flows into the Bay of Fundy, between Passamaquoddy Bay and Lake Utopia.

History

The area was surveyed in 1786. First called Magaguadavic, it was renamed Granite Town after the nearby red-granite quarries. In 1829 it was renamed to the current name, and a post office was established. By 1898 the town's port served the Shore Line Railway, and there were three hotels, four churches, 22 stores, and two mills. It was incorporated as a town in 1904.

During the Second World War, two military bases were opened near the town: A Canadian Army training base known as "Camp Utopia" and a RCAF/RAF Air Station at Pennfield Ridge. By the late 1950s, both bases were closed; Camp Utopia relocated to Camp Gagetown, later CFB Gagetown, and the airfield at Pennfield Ridge served as the first commercial airport for the city of Saint John. From 1983 to 1985, Adex Mining Inc. operated a tungsten/molybdenum mine 40 km north of the town, at Mount Pleasant. Primary employers are aquaculture and a J. D. Irving lumber mill, Lake Utopia Paper.

St. George Power runs a hydroelectric generating station on the Magaguadavic River. It has an installed capacity of 15 MW. It is a run of the river plant, meaning there is no water storage in reservoirs as there is at the Mactaquac Dam.

On 1 January 2023, St. George amalgamated with the village of Blacks Harbour and all or part of five local service districts to form the incorporated rural community of Eastern Charlotte. The community's name remains in official use.

Demographics

An 1893 sketch of the falls in St. George

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, St. George had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 16.17 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

|1901|733 |1911|988 |1921|1110 |1931|1087 |1941|1169 |1951|1263 |1961|1133 |1981|1195 |1986|1305 |1991|1345 |1996|1414 |2001|1509 |2006|1309 |2006A|1512 |2011|1543 |2016|1517 |2021|1579

Language

Canada Census Mother Tongue - St. George, New Brunswick
2006 language data inaccurate due to unresolved census errors	Census	Total	Year	Responses	Count	Trend	Pop %	Count	Trend	Pop %	Count	Trend	Pop %	Count	Trend	Pop %
				1,370		87.2%		30	n/a%			5	n/a%			145
				1,345	3.6%	90.9%		30	25%	1.99%		5	n/a%	0.33%		105
				1,395	13.9%	91.48%		40	27.3%	2.62%		5	n/a%	0.33%		85
				1,225	13.7%	93.51%		55	31.2%	4.20%		0	0.0%	0.00%		30
				1,420	6.0%	94.04%		80	23.1%	5.30%		0	0.0%	0.00%		10
				1,340	n/a	95.37%		65	n/a	4.63%		0	n/a	0.00%		0

St. George Mall

St. George features a small local mall located on Brunswick Street.

References

(6 December 2022). "Census Profile of St. George, Town (TV)".
"Provincial Archives of New Brunswick".
"St. George Hydro Facility".
(12 October 2022). "Local Governments Establishment Regulation – Local Governance Act".
"RSC 10 Southwest Regional Service Commission".
(25 May 2022). "Proposed entity names reflect strong ties to nature and history". Government of New Brunswick.
[http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/corr/updatepages/cgen001-eng.cfm?lvl=H 2006 Census Corrections and updates]
Statistics Canada: [[Canada 1996 Census. 1996]], [[Canada 2001 Census. 2001]], [[Canada 2006 Census. 2006]] census
"Census Profile, 2016 Census St. George, New Brunswick". Statistics Canada.
"NHS Profile, St. George, T, New Brunswick, 2011".

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