| Beaver Harbour | |
| Settlement Type: | Local service district |
| Pushpin Map: | New Brunswick |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within New Brunswick. |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Seat Type: | Electoral Districts Federal |
| Seat: | New Brunswick Southwest |
| Parts Type: | Provincial |
| Parts: | Charlotte-The Isles |
| Area Total Km2: | 2.25 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 291 |
| Population Density Km2: | 129.3 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 5.1% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 142 |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Timezone Dst: | ADT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
| Coordinates: | 45.0731°N -66.7428°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | E5H |
| Area Code: | 506 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
Beaver Harbour is a community on the Fundy shore of New Brunswick, Canada.
Most of the community forms the Local service district of Beaver Harbour, which was established in 1971.[2] It is also a census subdivision of Census Canada. Since the formation of the LSD, the community has expanded past the original boundaries into the LSD of the parish of Pennfield.
In 1866 it had about 30 resident families, and grew to a population of 150 by 1871, the 500 in 1898.[3] As of 2021, the population was 291.[1]
It is the site of the Lighthouse Point Light, originally built in 1875 and subsequently rebuilt. It is a fiberglass tapered cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern.[4]
Beaver Harbour was first settled in 1783 by Quaker loyalists who had fled Pennsylvania as a result of the American Revolution. It became the first settlement in British North America to forbid slavery, with 49 names of families being attached to a founding constitution which barred slave owners from living there.[5] [6]