Bathurst, New Brunswick
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| City of Bathurst Ville de Bathurst |
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Looking north at Bathurst waterfront, with Holy Family church in background.
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| Motto: See What Awaits You | ||
 Bathurst
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| Coordinates: 47°37′N 65°39′W / 47.62°N 65.65°W | ||
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 Canada
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 New Brunswick
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| County | Gloucester | |
| Parish | Bathurst | |
| Settled | 1600's | |
| Town Status | 1912 | |
| City Status | 1966 | |
| Electoral Districts Federal |
Acadie—Bathurst |
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| Provincial | Bathurst | |
| Government | ||
| • Type | City Council | |
| • Mayor | Paolo Fongemie | |
| • Councillors |
List of Members
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| Area | ||
| • Land | 91.86 km2 (35.47 sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 69.85 km2 (26.97 sq mi) | |
| • Metro | 2,087.97 km2 (806.17 sq mi) | |
| Highest elevation | 62 m (203 ft) | |
| Lowest elevation | 0 m (0 ft) | |
| Population (2011) | ||
| • City | 12,275 | |
| • Density | 133.6/km2 (346/sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 18,154 | |
| • Urban density | 260/km2 (700/sq mi) | |
| • Metro | 30,424 | |
| • Metro density | 15/km2 (40/sq mi) | |
| • Pop 2006-2011 |
 3.5% |
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| • Dwellings | 6,257 | |
| Time zone | AST (UTC-4) | |
| • Summer (DST) | ADT (UTC-3) | |
| Postal code(s) | E2A | |
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Highways Route 8 Route 11 Route 134 Route 180
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 Route 315 Route 322 Route 430
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| NTS Map | 021P12 | |
| GNBC Code | DAFQX | |
| Website | www.bathurst.ca | |
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Bathurst (2011 population; UA 12,275; CA population 13,424) is the county seat for Gloucester County, New Brunswick, and is at the estuary of the Nepisiguit River.
Bathurst had been the location of the annual Mi'kmaq summer coastal community of Nepisiguit prior to European settlement. Europeans first reached the shores of the Baie des Chaleurs when in 1534 it was named by Jacques Cartier. Early settlers from France came to the area in the 17th century in what became part of the colony of Acadia. In 1607 Samuel de Champlain sailed into the Miramichi, and in 1636, Nicolas Denys was granted a seignory by the French crown, apparently the third grant in the colony of Acadie. Jean Jacques Enaud, who hailed from the French Basque Country, was granted in 1638 the seignory at the southeastern gap of the harbor later named Alston Point. Remark is made on William Francis Ganong's map of Bathurst Harbour, depicted here at left, of the residence of Nicolas Denys and the seignory of Gobin.
Little is known about the region between the death of Nicholas Denys in 1688 and the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), whereby Louis XIV ceded the territory of Acadia to Anne, Queen of Great Britain. Although it was marked as an inlet, the Nepisiguit river was not noted in a British map dated 1744, although by 1755 Thomas Jefferys illustrates the "Nipisiki River" and "Nipisighit Bay". Historians remark the Battle of the Restigouche in June 1760 (one of the final events in the Seven Years' War) in the Baie des Chaleurs, and various other incidents as the colony of Nouvelle France expired.
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