Charlotte County
When New Brunswick was partitioned off from Nova Scotia in 1784 to accommodate the influx of United Empire Loyalists fleeing the United States after the Revolutionary War, Charlotte County was established as one of the new province’s eight original counties. It was named in honour of Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz, queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland by her marriage to King George III. The land—inhabited for thousands of years by the Peskotomuhkadi (Passamaquoddy) people—was settled by the Loyalists and successive waves of immigrants from Scotland, Ireland, Europe, and elsewhere.
The County quickly became a thriving hub of shipbuilding and international trade, fisheries, and lumbering. As time went on, cotton mills, axe factories, granite quarrying and finishing, candy-making, soap-making, and cottage crafts, among others, all ensured that Charlotte County’s products were known around the world. In more recent years, tourism and aquaculture have become major industries.
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