Beaver Brook Station, New Brunswick Explained

Beaver Brook Station is a Canadian rural community in Northumberland County, New Brunswick.

History

See also: History of New Brunswick and List of historic places in Northumberland County, New Brunswick. Beaver Brook Station was created when the Intercolonial Railway was constructed through the area 15km (09miles) north of Newcastle (now part of the city of Miramichi) in 1875.

Notable people

See main article: List of people from Northumberland County, New Brunswick. Max Aitken grew up in the nearby community of Newcastle, New Brunswick. In accepting his peerage, he chose the name "Lord Beaverbrook" (note the spelling difference) in reference to this community, after initially considering the harder to pronounce "Lord Miramichi".^[1]

See also

• List of communities in New Brunswick

References

47.1333°N -65.6°W

Notes and References

1. Rayburn, A. (2001), Naming Canada: Stories about Canadian Place Names. University of Toronto Press.
   - Rayburn, A. (1975), Geographical Names of New Brunswick. Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, Ottawa.