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Located in the west part of
Saint John:
Lancaster Parish,
St. John County: first called Mahogany Road and then Fairville for Robert Fair (1824-1901), a local merchant: PO
Fairville 1864-1947 with James Ready as the postmaster: in 1866 Fairville had about 45 resident families: in 1871 Fairville had a population of 1,500 and was the eastern terminus of the European and North American Railway: in 1898 Fairville was a station on the Canadian Pacific Railway, a lumbering and manufacturing village with 1 post office, 25 stores, 2 hotels, 1 brewery, 1 sawmill, 1 pulp mill, 2 carriage factories, a provincial lunatic asylum, 5 churches and a population of 1,500: in 1871 Lancaster had a population of 200: the name of the whole community was changed to Lancaster in the 1940's: also included Lancaster Vale: Lancaster became part of
Saint John.
Latitude
:
45° 15'
Longitude
:
66° 6'
County
:
St. John
Parish
:
Lancaster
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