Beaver Harbour, New Brunswick

Beaver Harbour
Unincorporated community
Beaver Harbour

Location within New Brunswick.

Coordinates: 45°04′23″N 66°44′34″W / 45.07306°N 66.74278°W / 45.07306; -66.74278Coordinates: 45°04′23″N 66°44′34″W / 45.07306°N 66.74278°W / 45.07306; -66.74278
Country  Canada
Province  New Brunswick
County Charlotte
Parish Pennfield
Electoral Districts
Federal
New Brunswick Southwest
Provincial Charlotte-The Isles
Government
 • Type Local service district
Time zone AST (UTC-4)
 • Summer (DST) ADT (UTC-3)
Postal code(s) E5H
Area code(s) 506
Highways Route 778
Lighthouse Point Light
New Brunswick
Location Beaver Harbour
New Brunswick
Canada
Coordinates 45°3′46.72″N 66°43′59.15″W / 45.0629778°N 66.7330972°W / 45.0629778; -66.7330972
Year first constructed 1875 (first)
1960s (second)
Year first lit 1984 (current)
Foundation concrete base
Construction wooden tower (first)
metal skeletal tower (second)
fiberglass tower (current)
Tower shape square prism tower with balcony and lantern (first)
square pyramidal skeletal tower with balcony and light (second)
tapered cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern (current)
Markings / pattern white tower, red lantern (current)
Height 8 metres (26 ft)
Focal height 14.5 metres (48 ft)
Light source main power
Range 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi)[1]
Characteristic Iso W 6s.
Fog signal 6s. blast every 60s.
Admiralty number H4112
CHS number CCG 83
NGA number 11184
ARLHS number CAN-162
Managing agent Canadian Coast Guard[2][3]

Beaver Harbour is an unincorporated fishing village in the Parish of Pennfield, Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada.

It is located east of Blacks Harbour and south of Pennfield.

History

Beaver Harbour was settled in September 1783, by the "Quaker Company" the (spokesmen) agents for which were Joshua Knight, Samuel Fairlamb and John Rankin. The "Quaker Company" was composed almost entirely of members and former members of the Society of Friends from Pennsylvania and New Jersey [4] who being Loyalists left the City of New York upon its evacuation by the British Army at the end of the American Revolution. A number of the men had served as military loyalists, thus the company was in some ways a United Empire Loyalist counterpart to the “Patriot” “Free Friends” [5] see also http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/n-b-community-first-in-british-north-america-to-forbid-slavery-1.2255471#_gus&_gucid=&_gup=Facebook&_gsc=6NUHqGG

out Beaver being the first North American settlement to abolish slaveryb

In 1790 this settlement Bellevu or Bellveue was largely destroyed by a forest fire and most of the members of the "Quaker Company" dispersed.

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ↑ List of Lights, Pub. 110: Greenland, The East Coasts of North and South America (Excluding Continental U.S.A. Except the East Coast of Florida) and the West Indies (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2015.
  2. ↑ Southern New Brunswick The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 23 March 2017
  3. ↑ Lighthouse Point, NB Lighthouse Friends. Retrieved 23 March 2017
  4. ↑ Among these were the family of John and Susanna Jackson from Chester County, Pennsylvania. One of their children, Thomas, was born there in 1788. They had all returned to Baltimore County, Maryland and to Chester County, Pennsylvania by 1795. John died in Baltimore in 1795. Also Gideon and Phoebe Vernon and their children, of Neither Providence Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
  5. ↑ John and Betsy Ross (of the U.S. flag story), were members of the "Free Friends".


Adjacent places of Beaver Harbour, New Brunswick
 Justasons Corner Pennfield
Blacks Harbour Beaver Harbour
   Beaver Harbour  
Bay of Fundy



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