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St. Martins is a community on the
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in
Saint John County, New Brunswick Saint John County (2016 population: 74,020) is located in southern New Brunswick, Canada. The city of Saint John dominates the county. Elsewhere in the county, tourism is focused around the Bay of Fundy. Census subdivisions Communities The ...
, Canada. The village was founded as Quaco by 1783 by soldiers from the disbanded
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King's Orange Rangers. It was incorporated in 1967. Led by shipbuilders such as James Moran, it was the third most productive
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town in
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, producing over 500 ships. Shipbuilding declined after the 1870s and today tourism is the major industry. On 1 January 2023, St. Martins annexed all or part of three local service districts to form the new village of Fundy-St. Martins. The community's name remains in official use.


Attractions

Attractions in St. Martins include the St. Martins Sea Caves, the beach and tidal harbour, the start of the Fundy Trail, two
covered bridge A covered bridge is a timber- truss bridge with a roof, decking, and siding, which in most covered bridges create an almost complete enclosure. The purpose of the covering is to protect the wooden structural members from the weather. Uncovered wo ...
s and the Quaco Head
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, the Quaco Museum and Library, and the Fundy Trail Parkway.


Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by
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, St. Martins had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.


Gallery

Stmartinscaves.jpg, St. Martins' Caves Fundytrail.JPG, Fundy Trail Twin bridges 06 05.jpg, Twin covered bridges St Martins Sea Caves- St. Martins- New Brunswick.jpg, St Martins Sea Cave


Further reading

* Hebb, Ross M., ''Quaco - St. Martins: A Brief History'', 1997. Fredericton, NB: Quaco/Springhill Press.


See also

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List of lighthouses in New Brunswick This is a list of lighthouses in New Brunswick. Lighthouses See also *List of lighthouses in Canada References External links New Brunswick Lighthouses''Lighthouses Friends''. Retrieved 18 February 2017 List of Lights, Buoys and Fog Signal ...
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List of communities in New Brunswick This is a list of communities in New Brunswick, a province in Canada. For the purposes of this list, a community is defined as either an incorporated municipality, an Indian reserve, or an unincorporated community inside or outside a municipalit ...
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History of New Brunswick The history of New Brunswick covers the period from the arrival of the Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. Prior to European colonization, the lands encompassing present-day New Brunswick were inhabited for millennia by the s ...
* List of historic places in Saint John County, New Brunswick


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