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unusual facts about York County, New Brunswick


Isaac Stephenson

He was born in the Canadian community of Yorkton near Fredericton in York County, New Brunswick to Isaac Stephenson (1790–ca. 1875), a lumberman and farmer born in Ireland of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and Elizabeth (Watson) Stephenson (?–1838), who was born in London.


2002–03 Calgary Flames season

The 2002–03 season would be the tenth, and last, season in New Brunswick, as the Flames bought out the local ownershi's share of the team following the season and suspended operations.

2014 Ford World Women's Curling Championship

The 2014 Ford World Women's Curling Championship will be held from March 15 to 23 at the Harbour Station in Saint John, New Brunswick.

Charles Bellamy

Bellamy's career first began during the summer of 1717 when he raided three ships off the coast of both New England and New Brunswick, before sailing northwards to establish a fortified encampment somewhere in the Bay of Fundy (most likely Saint Andrew's where he continued attacking fishing and raiding ships off the southern coast of Newfoundland.

Charles de Menou d'Aulnay

D'Aulnay went immediately to Port Royal, erected a new fort, moved the La Hève colonists, and sent to France for 20 additional families, making Port Royal the principal settlement in Acadia, which at that time embraced not only Nova Scotia, but a portion of New Brunswick, extending as far west as the Penobscot.

Chaylon Brewster

In 2001, he was contacted by Brockway Biggs, an up-and-coming rapper from New Brunswick to produce a remix to his song, "The Pimp-T Theme" which was later nominated for an East Coast Music Award in 2003.

Collège du Sacré-Coeur

Collège du Sacré-Coeur (New Brunswick), a former religious college that was merged with the Université de Moncton and the New Brunswick Community College

Colonial Parkway Killer

Investigators have speculated that the suspect might be a law enforcement officer, someone impersonating one, or perhaps a rogue operative from the Central Intelligence Agency, which has a training facility nearby at Camp Peary in York County.

Daniel S. Mitchell

Born in 1838 in York County, Maine, Mitchell began his photographic career as an errand boy in a daguerreotype gallery in Maine at the age of nine.

Don Evans

An integral part of the Black Arts movement of the 1970s, Evans had his first plays, the one acts Orrin and Sugarmouth Sam Don’t Dance No More performed in 1972 at the Crossroads Theatre, a professional playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Edward Tanjore Corwin

He was born in New York City, July 12, 1834; graduated at the College of the City of New York in 1853, and at the Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, N. J. in 1856.

Embargo Act of 1807

Federal officials believed parts of Maine, such as Passamaquoddy Bay on the border with British-held New Brunswick, were in open rebellion.

Fraser Papers

Fraser's 3,700 employees worked in several pulp and paper mills in North America, including in Madawaska, Maine and in New Hampshire in the US, and Thurso, Quebec, and Edmundston, New Brunswick in Canada.

Fred Fulton

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Frederick Haldimand

As the revolution came to an end Haldimand helped settle American Loyalist refugees who became known as United Empire Loyalists, many in territories that are now in New Brunswick and Ontario.

Gedney family

Joshua Gedney and his brother Joseph were forced to change their names to Gidney and to flee from New York to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1783.

Government of Canada Building, Moncton

The Government of Canada Building is one of the tallest buildings in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Hanover Junction Railroad Station

Hanover Junction Railroad Station is a historic railroad station located at Hanover Junction in North Codorus Township, York County, Pennsylvania.

Hayley Lever

Throughout his life, he traveled and painted extensively, including Nova Scotia and Grand Manan Island in Canada, the Bahamas and Florida, while often returning to Europe.

Hub City Stompers

Hub City Stompers are a ska/reggae/Oi! band formed in 2002 and based out of New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Jacques LeBlanc

Jacques LeBlanc (born August 5, 1964 in Memramcook, New Brunswick, Canada) is a retired Acadian Middleweight Boxer.

James Davies Lewin

He entered the British government service in 1830 and assigned to the customs department on the Miramichi River, New Brunswick.

Jason Dickson

Raised in Miramichi, New Brunswick, Dickson has been a supporter of the New Brunswick Liberals and campaigned for them in the 2003 election.

John Hume

In furtherance of his goals, he continues to speak publicly, including a visit to Seton Hall University in New Jersey in 2005, the first Summer University of Democracy of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, 10–14 July 2006), and St Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada 18 July 2007.

Jonathan Longley

Jonathan Ian Longley (born 12 April 1969 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America) is a former English cricketer.

Joseph Pach

Pach graduated from the University of Toronto with an Artist Diploma in 1947, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from St. Thomas University (New Brunswick) in 1988 and an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from the University of New Brunswick in 1993.

Les Trois Accords

The band's most prominent show to date was in September 2005, when they were an opening act for The Rolling Stones in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

Her corporate marketing career included stints at the Leo Burnett advertising agency in Chicago and Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Loaded Poets

The band began playing clubs in New Jersey (most notably New Brunswick’s Court Tavern), New York, and Philadelphia, and appeared in filmmaker Paul Devlin’s first documentary, Rockin’ Brunswick (1984), which documented the New Brunswick, New Jersey music scene of the 1980s.

Lorna Raver

Born in York County, Pennsylvania, Raver had early experience performing at the Hedgerow Theater in Pennsylvania.

McClellan Heights, Pennsylvania

McClellan Heights, located in York County, Pennsylvania, United States, is a neighborhood adjacent to the city of York and is part of the campus of the York College of Pennsylvania.

Mike Argento

Argento is married to his wife Cine Martinez-Argento and together the two live in York County, Pennsylvania.

Morrigan Press

Morrigan Press Inc. is a pen and paper roleplaying game publisher headquartered in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation

After the National Council moved its headquarters in 1979 from New Brunswick, New Jersey to Irving, Texas, the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico became the new home of the National Training Center.

Mubarak Ali Gilani

Among other projects it has model communities in the Town of Hancock, New York, called Islamberg, and in York County, South Carolina, called Holy Islamville.

New Denmark, New Brunswick

The community is situated in rolling hills east of the Saint John River valley several kilometres south of Drummond.

Philip LeSourd

At the instigation of Karl Teeter and later Ken Hale, he spent time residing among the Maliseet and Passamaquoddy communities in Maine, United States and New Brunswick, Canada.

Queen Anne's War

In negotiations there and at Casco Bay, the Abenakis orally objected to British assertions that the French had ceded their territory (present-day eastern Maine and New Brunswick) to Britain, and agreed to a confirmation of boundaries at the Kennebec River and the establishment of government-run trading posts in their territory.

Salt Hill

He had also presided over a constitutional crisis in New Brunswick and had been Governor of British Guiana.

Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

Whereas the modern saut means simply "(a) jump", sault was also applied to cataracts, waterfalls and rapids in the 17th century, hence the placenames Grand Falls/Grand-Sault, New/Nouveau Brunswick and Sault-au-Récollet on the Island of Montreal in Canada; and Sault-Saint-Remy and Sault-Brénaz, in France.

Stephen Bronner

Stephen Eric Bronner (born 19 August 1949) is a noted political philosopher and Professor (II) of Political Science, Comparative Literature, and German Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

T. Corey Brennan

Terry Corey Brennan (born November 24, 1959) is an associate professor of Classics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, (USA), and was a guitarist and songwriter involved with several bands, most notably the alternative rock band The Lemonheads.

United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company

The old 1795 Albany Street Bridge was removed in 1849, but was later rebuilt.

Vanceboro, Maine

Vanceboro is across the St. Croix River from St. Croix, New Brunswick, Canada, to which it is connected by the Saint Croix – Vanceboro Bridge.

Version City

Since its inception in New York City 1997 by local ska veteran King Django, it has changed its location to its current home in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Vineyard Bible Institute

In 2006, VBI took a significantly progressive step forward when Derek and Dr. Quinton Howitt, Derek's academic colleague and lecturer at South African Theological Seminary, constituted a partnership with St. Stephen's University on the East Coast of New Brunswick, Canada, whereby St. Stephen’s became VBI’s degree issuing confederate for their recently developed four year Bachelor of Christian Studies programme.

York County, Ontario

Three Lakeshore communities later developed into separate municipalities: Mimico (1911 Village/1917 Town), New Toronto (1913 Village/1920 Town), Long Branch (1930 Village).

It was named for Benjamin Vaughan, one of the British commissioners who signed the peace treaty of 1783 with the United States.

It is likely named for Whitchurch, Herefordshire, birthplace of Elizabeth Simcoe and wife of John Graves Simcoe.


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