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Located on Bathurst Harbour: Bathurst Parish, Gloucester County: first called Nepisiguit in the late 1600's by French settlers: William Francis Ganong identified Nepisiguit as a derivative of the Mi'kmaq word Winpegijawik, or "rough water," which referred to the river: renamed for Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl of Bathurst (1762-1834): PO from 1825: in 1866 Bathurst was a community with approximately 130 resident families: included St. Peters: in 1866 St. Peters was a farming, lumbering and shipbuilding community with approximately 114 resident families and in 1871 it had a population of 600: also included the community of Nepisiguit which in 1871 had a population of 300: in 1871 Bathurst had a population of 600: in 1904 Bathurst was a seaport, a port of entry on the Intercolonial Railway and the Caraquet and Gulf Shore Railway and a town with 1 post office, 35 stores, 6 hotels, 1 steam sawmill, 1 shingle mill, 1 flour mill, 3 fish freezers, 2 carriage factories, 1 printing shop, 3 churches and a population of 3,000: Bathurst was incorporated as a town in 1912 and as a city in 1966: see the separate entries for the following communities absorbed by Bathurst: Middle River, Moody's, Roy Settlement, Sainte-Anne, Sand Hill, South Bathurst, St. Mary, Vallée-Lourdes, and West Bathurst.

Latitude : 47° 36'

Longitude : 65° 39'

County : Gloucester

Parish : Bathurst

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Other communities within the vicinity of    

CommunityDistance (Kilometers)Bearing
South Bathurst 1.25 270° W
Basin Road 1.25 270° W
Middle River 1.25 270° W
St. Mary 1.25 90° E
Rough Waters 1.85 180° S
West Bathurst 2.24 326° NW
College Hill 2.24 326° NW
Bathurst Basin 2.24 326° NW
Bathurst Village 2.24 326° NW
Bathurst Station 3.11 307° NW
East Bathurst 3.11 53° NE
Big River 3.91 199° SSW
Chamberlain Settlement 3.91 161° SSE
Cross Roads 4.47 326° NW
Sand Hill 4.47 34° NE
* Distances and bearings were calculated by using the latitude and longitude of the community.


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