Official Name: | Harcourt |
Other Name: | Weldford |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | New Brunswick |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Harcourt in New Brunswick |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | New Brunswick |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Kent County |
Subdivision Type3: | Parish |
Subdivision Name3: | Harcourt Parish |
Established Title: | Settlement Established |
Established Date: | 1869 |
Established Title2: | Name changed to Harcourt |
Established Date2: | 1894 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Total: | 390 |
Timezone: | AST |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Timezone Dst: | ADT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
Coordinates: | 46.4699°N -65.2457°W |
Elevation M: | 60.00 |
Elevation Ft: | 196.85 |
Postal Code Type: | Canadian Postal code |
Postal Code: | E4T |
Area Code: | 506 |
Blank1 Name: | NTS Map |
Blank2 Name: | GNBC Code |
Harcourt is a Canadian unincorporated community, located in Kent County, New Brunswick. The community is situated in southeastern New Brunswick, Between Moncton and Nouvelle-Arcadie. Population, according to Statistics Canada Census 2011, is 390. Average age of population is 50. Harcourt is located around the intersection of Route 116 and Route 126.
Most students go to Harcourt School.[1]
A settlement called Weldford was first established on this site in 1869 when the railway was constructed. By 1871 the population was 150. In 1894 the settlement was renamed Harcourt and by 1898 the population had grown to 250 and had become the site of a station on the Intercolonial Railway. Harcourt was a farming and lumbering settlement with 7 stores, 2 hotels, 1 tannery, 1 sawmill, 1 hemlock bark extract factory, 1 carriage factory, 3 churches.[2]
The plane carrying T. Babbitt Parlee crashed near here in 1957.[3]
See also: History of New Brunswick and List of historic places in Kent County, New Brunswick.
See main article: article and List of people from Kent County, New Brunswick.