Official Name: | New Annan |
Settlement Type: | rural unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Canada PEI |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 220 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Prince Edward Island |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Prince County |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | 1800s |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | Atlantic (AST) |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Timezone Dst: | ADT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
Coordinates: | 46.4194°N -63.7117°W |
Postal Code Type: | Canadian Postal code |
Postal Code: | C1N |
Blank3 Name: | NTS Map |
Blank3 Info: | 011L05 |
Blank4 Name: | GNBC Code |
Blank4 Info: | BABWL |
New Annan is a Canadian rural community located in Prince County, Prince Edward Island. It is named after Annan, Dumfries-shire, Scotland.[1] [2]
Cavendish Farms, Prince Edward Island's largest private sector employer, maintains two large frozen foods processing plants in New Annan.[3]
An 1875 gazetteer refers to New Annan Mills as a "small village in Prince co. [County], 6 miles from Summerside. Pop.[Population] 80."[4]
On November 13, 2011, two people died in suspicious circumstances in New Annan. A car parked at the roadside with a man and a woman in it was found on Highway 2 in New Annan, between highways 110 and 120. The woman was dead due to stabbing and the man later died in hospital due to a self-inflicted stab wound.[5]