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Located 3.12 km SW of Wishart Point, on the road to Covedell: Alnwick Parish, Northumberland County: William Francis Ganong identified the Mi'kmaq name for Tabusintac as Taboosimkik or "a pair of them": The Acadians called the area Taboujamteck: PO Tabisintac 1840-1857: PO Tabucintac 1857-1931: in 1866 Tabusintac was a farming, fishing and lumbering community with 60 resident families: in 1871 it had a population of 400: in 1898 Tabusintac had 1 post office, 2 stores, 2 hotels, lobster canning factories, 1 church and a population of 350: PO Tabusintac from 1931.

Latitude : 47° 20'

Longitude : 65° 1'

County : Northumberland

Parish : Alnwick

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Other communities within the vicinity of    

CommunityDistance (Kilometers)Bearing
Covedell 1.85 180° S
Wishart Point 3.12 54° NE
Gaythorne 4.2 296° WNW
Grattan 4.2 244° WSW
Stymast Settlement 4.2 244° WSW
Blacklands 4.48 146° SE
* Distances and bearings were calculated by using the latitude and longitude of the community.


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