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Located on W bank of the St. John River:
Grand Falls Parish,
Victoria County: William Francis Ganong identified the Maliseet name for Grand Falls as Chikchunikabik: by the mid-1700's the French named the area
Long Sault: renamed Grand Falls: a British military post by 1790: the settlement grew with the development of sawmills in the 1830's: PO from 1837: in 1866 Grand Falls was a community with approximately 55 families: included the settlement of Colebrooke: PO 1851-c1870: in 1871
Colebrooke and the surrounding district had a population of 700: Grand Falls was incorporated as a town in 1890 and in 1904 it was a port of entry, a station on the Canadian Pacific Railway and a town with 15 stores, 3 hotels, 1 sawmill, 1 grist mill, 1 cheese factory, 1 butter factory, 3 churches and a population of 1000.
Latitude
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47° 3'
Longitude
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67° 44'
County
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Victoria
Parish
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Grand Falls
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