| Official Name: | St. George |
| Nickname: | Granite Town |
| Motto: | A Community Strong |
| Pushpin Map: | New Brunswick |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within New Brunswick. |
| Coordinates: | 45.1333°N -115°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name1: | New Brunswick |
| Subdivision Name2: | Charlotte |
| Subdivision Name3: | Eastern Charlotte |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Date: | 1783 |
| Established Title2: | Incorporated |
| Established Date2: | 1904 |
| Area Land Km2: | 16.17 |
| Population Total: | 1,579 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Density Km2: | 97.7 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change (2016–21) |
| Population Blank1: | 4.1% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 751 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | E5C |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Timezone Dst: | ADT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | |
| Blank1 Name: | NTS Map |
| Blank2 Name: | GNBC Code |
St. George is a community in the Rural Community of Eastern Charlotte, in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada; it was a town until the end of 2022 and is now part of the rural community of Eastern Charlotte. It is located where the Magaguadavic River flows into the Bay of Fundy, between Passamaquoddy Bay and Lake Utopia.
The area was surveyed in 1786. First called Magaguadavic, it was renamed Granite Town after the nearby red-granite quarries. In 1829 it was renamed to the current name, and a post office was established. By 1898 the town's port served the Shore Line Railway, and there were three hotels, four churches, 22 stores, and two mills. It was incorporated as a town in 1904.[2]
During the Second World War, two military bases were opened near the town: A Canadian Army training base known as "Camp Utopia" and a RCAF/RAF Air Station at Pennfield Ridge. By the late 1950s, both bases were closed; Camp Utopia relocated to Camp Gagetown, later CFB Gagetown, and the airfield at Pennfield Ridge served as the first commercial airport for the city of Saint John. From 1983 to 1985, Adex Mining Inc. operated a tungsten/molybdenum mine 40 km north of the town, at Mount Pleasant. Primary employers are aquaculture and a J. D. Irving lumber mill, Lake Utopia Paper.
St. George Power runs a hydroelectric generating station on the Magaguadavic River. It has an installed capacity of 15 MW.[3] It is a run of the river plant, meaning there is no water storage in reservoirs as there is at the Mactaquac Dam.
On 1 January 2023, St. George amalgamated with the village of Blacks Harbour and all or part of five local service districts to form the incorporated rural community of Eastern Charlotte.[4] [5] The community's name remains in official use.[6]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, St. George had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 16.17km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - St. George, New Brunswick 2006 language data inaccurate due to unresolved census errors | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 1,370 | 87.2% | 30 | n/a% | 5 | n/a% | 145 | |||||||||||||
| 1,345 | 3.6% | 90.9% | 30 | 25% | 1.99% | 5 | n/a% | 0.33% | 105 | 23.5% | 6.98% | ||||||||
| 1,395 | 13.9% | 91.48% | 40 | 27.3% | 2.62% | 5 | n/a% | 0.33% | 85 | 183.3% | 5.57% | ||||||||
| 1,225 | 13.7% | 93.51% | 55 | 31.2% | 4.20% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | 30 | 200.0% | 2.29% | ||||||||
| 1,420 | 6.0% | 94.04% | 80 | 23.1% | 5.30% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | 10 | n/a% | 0.66% | ||||||||
| 1,340 | n/a | 95.37% | 65 | n/a | 4.63% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | ||||||||