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Wakefield is a dispersed Canadian rural community located in Wakefield Parish, Carleton County, New Brunswick.[1]
Located approximately 9 km southeast of Hartland,[2] Wakefield sits along Route 103 by the Saint John River. The nearby Hartland is home to the Hartland Bridge, the world's longest covered bridge.
History
[edit]According to local residents in the early 20th century, the old village of Wakefield was located at what later became Victoria Corner.[3] It had a large store run by James R. Tupper and a hotel run by John Moran.[3]
In 1984, a famous bridge at Wakefield burned down in a fire.[4] By 1988, it had been rebuilt as a covered bridge, and re-opened to pedestrians only.[4]
In popular culture
[edit]Wakefield is one of the settings in the novel Maclean by Allan Donaldson, which tells the story of a First World War veteran who was gassed at Ypres.[5]
See also
[edit]- List of historic places in Carleton County, New Brunswick
- List of communities in New Brunswick
- List of people from Carleton County, New Brunswick
Neighbouring communities
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Wakefield".
- ^ Government of Canada, Natural Resources Canada. "Place names - Search Results". geonames.nrcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ a b Ketchum, T. C. L. (1922). A short history of Carleton county, New Brunswick. Woodstock, New Brunswick: Sentinel. p. 63.
- ^ a b Ferguson, Will (May 24, 1998). "A Kiss in the Dark: The Vanishing Beauty of Covered Bridges". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 2024-03-31 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Grace, Sherrill (2014). Landscapes of war and memory: The two World Wars in Canadian literature and the arts, 1977-2007. University of Alberta Press. p. 117. ISBN 9781772120004.
Further reading
[edit]- Ketchum, T.C.L. (1922). A Short History of Carleton County New Brunswick. Sentinel Publishing Company. p. 62. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
46°13′19″N 67°31′27″W / 46.221944°N 67.524152°W
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