| Charlo | |
| Official Name: | Village of Charlo |
| Settlement Type: | Dissolved Village |
| Motto: | By the Bay |
| Pushpin Map: | New Brunswick |
| Pushpin Label: | Charlo |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within New Brunswick. |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | New Brunswick |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Restigouche |
| Subdivision Type3: | Parish |
| Subdivision Name3: | Colborne |
| Subdivision Type4: | Town |
| Subdivision Name4: | Heron Bay |
| Seat Type: | Electoral Districts Federal |
| Seat: | Madawaska—Restigouche |
| Parts Type: | Provincial |
| Parts: | Campbellton-Dalhousie |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Date: | 1799 |
| Established Title2: | Village Status |
| Established Date2: | 1966 |
| Area Land Km2: | 31.45 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 1,323 |
| Population Density Km2: | 42.1 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change (2016–21) |
| Population Blank1: | 1.0% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 724 |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Timezone Dst: | ADT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | E8E |
| Area Code: | 506 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | |
| Blank1 Name: | Median income |
| Blank1 Info: | 63,659 (2015) |
Charlo is a community in Heron Bay in Restigouche County, New Brunswick.[2] It was a village from 1966 to 2023, when it was amalgamated with Dalhousie to form the town of Heron Bay.
See also: History of New Brunswick and List of historic places in Restigouche County, New Brunswick. Situated on the south shore of Chaleur Bay, the community was first settled by Acadians in 1799 (except for the Thompson family who emigrated from Ireland through the port of New York who settled 1784–1790 and was granted land by the Crown in 1824 next to the church property) and incorporated in 1966. River Charlo is one of its neighbourhoods.
On January 1, 2023, Charlo amalgamated with the town of Dalhousie and all or part of five local service districts to form the new town of Heron Bay.[3] [4] The community's name remains in official use.[5]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Charlo had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 31.45km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[6]
| Census | Population | Change (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1,310 | 1.1% | |
| 2011 | 1,324 | 4.5% | |
| 2006 | 1,386 Adj | 5.0% | |
| 2001 | 1,449 | 10.0% | |
| 1996 | 1,610 | 0.8% | |
| 1991 | 1,597 | N/A |
Mother tongue (2016)[8]
| Language | Population | Pct (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| French only | 835 | 63.7% | |
| English only | 435 | 33.2% | |
| Both English and French | 30 | 2.3% | |
| Other languages | 10 | 0.8% |
The Charlo Airport, the only airport in the region, offered scheduled air service between 1963 and 2001. In October 2012, Provincial Airlines began trial flights at the Charlo Airport.[9] In January 2013, after deeming that there was sufficient demand, they made the trial flights permanent. They currently provide direct flights between Charlo, New Brunswick, Wabush, Newfoundland, and Halifax, Nova Scotia.[10]
VIA Rail's train, The Ocean, makes stops on request at the Charlo station, a flag stop platform.[11] The station shelter was demolished, along with nearby Jacquet River station, in October 2021.[12]
See main article: List of people from Restigouche County, New Brunswick.