Rothesay, New Brunswick
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Rothesay Town Hall
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| Motto: "Quinque Iuncta In Uno" (Latin) "Five United In One |
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 Rothesay
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| Coordinates: 45°23′20″N 65°59′40″W / 45.38881°N 65.99440°W | |||
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 Canada
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 New Brunswick
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| County | Kings County | ||
| Founded | August 4, 1860 | ||
| Amalgamation | January 1, 1998 | ||
| Electoral Districts Federal |
Saint John |
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| Provincial | Rothesay | ||
| Government | |||
| • Type | Town Council | ||
| • Mayor | Dr.Nancy Grant | ||
| • Deputy Mayor | Dr.Matt Alexander | ||
| • Councillors | Miriam Wells,Bill McGuire,Peter Lewis,Tiffany Mackay French,Grant Brenan,Don Shea | ||
| • MPs | Wayne Long | ||
| • MLAs | Ted Flemming | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 34.73 km2 (13.41 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | Sea level to 75 m (0 to 246 ft) | ||
| Population (2011) | |||
| • Total | 11,947 | ||
| • Density | 343.6/km2 (890/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | AST (UTC−4) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | ADT (UTC−3) | ||
| Canadian postal code | E2E | ||
| Area code(s) | 506 | ||
| Telephone Exchange | 847, 848, 849, 216 | ||
| NTS Map | 021H05 | ||
| GNBC Code | DACOY | ||
| Website | www.rothesay.ca | ||
Rothesay (/ˈrɒ.seɪ/ or /ˈrɒθseɪ/) is a town located in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. It is a suburb of Saint John along the Kennebecasis River.
Located along the lower Kennebecasis River valley, Rothesay borders the city of Saint John to the southwest, and the neighbouring town of Quispamsis to the northeast. It is served by a secondary mainline of the Canadian National Railway, though there is no longer any passenger service on the line.
The town developed first as a shipbuilding centre and later as a summer home community for Saint John's wealthy elite with the arrival of the European and North American Railway in 1853. There is a commonly known story that the new town was named in honour of the visiting Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, in 1860 because the area was said to have reminded him of Rothesay, Bute, in Scotland, however, an entry made in the diary of William Franklin Bunting, of Saint John, during the same visit refers to the Rothesay train station. It is unlikely that the name would have taken hold less than a day after the prince's passage through the settlement, and it therefore likely predates the visit or was specifically bestowed on the town in the prince's honour as Duke of Rothesay. In 1870, a Saint John-owned ship named Rothesay made a famous voyage when a 20-year-old woman named Bessie Hall took command of the fever-stricken ship and sailed it from Florida to Liverpool, England.
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