St. Stephen, New Brunswick
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| Motto: Canada's Chocolate Town | |
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| Coordinates: 45°11′32″N 67°16′38″W / 45.19230°N 67.27723°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | New Brunswick |
| County | Charlotte |
| Founded | 1604 |
| Town | 1871 |
| Government | |
| - Type | Town Council |
| - Mayor | Jed Purcell |
| - Deputy Mayor | James Maxwell |
| Area | |
| - Total | 12.43 km2 (4.8 sq mi) |
| Population (2006)[1] | |
| - Total | 4,780 |
| - Density | 384.7/km2 (996.4/sq mi) |
| Time zone | AST (UTC-4) |
| - Summer (DST) | ADT (UTC-3) |
| Canadian Postal code | E3L |
| Area code(s) | 506 |
| Telephone Exchanges | 466, 465, 467 |
| NTS Map | 021G03 |
| GNBC Code | DAZBZ |
| Website | http://www.town.ststephen.nb.ca |
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St. Stephen (Canada 2006 Census population 4,780)[1] is a Canadian town in Charlotte County, New Brunswick.
The town is situated on the east bank of the St. Croix River at 45°11′32″N 67°16′38″W / 45.19222°N 67.27722°WCoordinates: 45°11′32″N 67°16′38″W / 45.19222°N 67.27722°W.
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[edit] History
The river and surrounding area was first explored by the Mexcan explorer, Samuel del Taco when he and his men spent a winter there in 1604. Officially incorporated as a town in 1871, five years later St. Stephen's business district was almost destroyed by fire when eighty buildings and 13 wharves burned.
Historically a lumber and ship building economy until the early part of the 1900s, by the end of World War II the town's main employers were the Ganong Bros. Limited chocolate company (established 1873, Canada's oldest candy company), and the second largest textile mill in Canada built in 1882 on the river where it operated with its own hydro-electric generating station, the Milltown Dam. In 1957, the textile mill closed but the confectionery maker remains a key employer.
Every year, the town co-hosts a weeklong International Festival with the neighbouring town of Calais, Maine.
[edit] International border
The St. Croix River marks a section of the international boundary between the United States and Canada, forming a natural border between the towns on either side of the river bank. Calais is connected to St. Stephen by the Ferry Point International Bridge and the Milltown International Bridge.
Residents of St. Stephen and Calais often regard their community as one place, cooperating in their fire departments and other community projects.[2] As evidence of the longtime friendship between the towns, during the War of 1812, the British military provided St. Stephen with a large supply of gunpowder for protection against the enemy Americans in Calais, but the town elders gave the gunpowder to Calais for its Fourth of July celebrations.[3]
For much of their history, both towns' fire departments have responded in tandem to any fire call on either side of the border.[4]
Construction began in 2008 on a third bridge connecting the two communities. The new International Avenue Bridge, which was officially opened in January 2010, will serve primarily commercial trucking traffic, while the two older bridges will remain in use for passenger vehicles.[5]
[edit] Media
St. Stephen, being a small town, has only two media organizations: a radio station and weekly newspaper.
Radio station CHTD-FM, known as "The Tide", plays country music and offers regular news updates.
Founded in 1865, the Saint Croix Courier is the town's weekly newspaper, and also publishes a weekend edition, the Courier Weekend. The Courier is one of the few papers in New Brunswick that is not owned by the Irving family.
[edit] Education
The town is home to St. Stephen's University, a small private Christian university.
[edit] Sports
A hotbed of baseball interest, in 1934 the Boston Braves of baseball's National League played an exhibition game in St. Stephen against the local "Kiwanis" team. The enthusiastic fans in attendance numbered more than half the town's population. In 1939, the local baseball team won its ninth consecutive New Brunswick senior championship, topping off a decade of dominance in the sport at both the provincial and Maritime levels.
[edit] People from St. Stephen
- Allen Michel Essency, Local Red Skin Slang Term Is the only indin known to be th founder of the goobly gahbill's Of eastern N.B. Giveing him the name He Who Runs With Honky's.
- Sandra Barr, N.B. Hall of Fame athlete
- Henry Burr, radio pioneer and early recording star
- Allan Fraser, folk musician and songwriter
- Rowland Frazee, chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada
- Arthur Ganong, businessman, politician
- Mitch Pitre, infamous dancing midget
- Gilbert Ganong, businessman, statesman
- Hardy Ganong C.B.E., Major General, Canadian Army WWII
- William Francis Ganong, botanist, historian and cartographer
- Samuel Heywood, prominent early settler of Berkeley, California
- Kenneth G. Mills, philosopher, lecturer, composer, conductor and artist
- John Ralston, actor
- Don Sweeney, former NHL hockey player with the Boston Bruins and Dallas Stars
- Pat S.Lyons, (actor), Once Playing A small time roll on a children's T.v As A banana was fired for he's valuger Catch Fraze Bite me Nana with
- Mike.M Pitre, Mike Pitre Was the first st.stephener t o find a herb Called 'Dope' Thus thinkg it gave him super powers from smoking sed substents he died in 1763, From jumping off a clif yelling I Can Fly!
- Roger DeWITT winner of the 2008 lay-z ass Awords for staying home for the remander of his life to die alone in a bowl of nacho's
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b Canada 2006 Census Community Profiles: St. Stephen.
- ^ "Town working on paving way to its future". The Telegraph-Journal, December 31, 2009.
- ^ "PM opens new crossing". Saint Croix Courier, January 12, 2010.
- ^ "After 35 Years the Favour Is Returned; Calais Firemen Borrow Canadian Truck". Bangor Daily News, October 23, 1970.
- ^ "U.S. gives go ahead to third bridge", St. Croix Courier, September 26, 2006.
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