Grand Lake (New Brunswick)

Grand Lake
Location	Queens County, New Brunswick
Coordinates	45°56′1.1″N 66°1′57.6″W / 45.933639°N 66.032667°W / 45.933639; -66.032667Coordinates: 45°56′1.1″N 66°1′57.6″W / 45.933639°N 66.032667°W / 45.933639; -66.032667
Primary outflows	Jemseg River
Basin countries	Canada

Grand Lake is a lake located in central New Brunswick, Canada. It is approximately 40 kilometres east of Fredericton; and the province's largest open body of water being a total of 20 kilometers long and 5 kilometres wide.^[1] The lake drains through the Jemseg River and the Grand Lake Meadows into the Saint John River.

Records indicate that by the early 1600s [Grand Lake] was inhabited by Maliseet and Mi’kmaq peoples.^[1] The traditional world for Grand Lake is "Kchee'quis" meaning Big Lake.^[2]

Commercial barges of forest products were towed across the lake from a large sawmill in Chipman to a pulp mill in Saint John until the late 1990s. Other commercial activates included New Brunswick's largest coal mining area with extensive strip mines in the Newcastle Creek valley. In the 1850s, significant amounts of 'Newcastle coal' was being shipped down river from Grand Lake to the Saint John River.^[3] This was a coal-fired power generating station that was built in 1931 and was torn down in 2012 , it was formerly operated by NB Power, and is located on the lake shore near the village of Minto.

Today, the lake is popular for recreational activates for the locals and for visitors, with several beaches and cottages, and campground along its shores. This large body of water acts as a heat sink: moderating local temperatures, creating the warmest climate in the province, and extending the growing season.^[1]

Communities along or near Grand Lake include:

Minto
Princess Park
Grand Lake West
Douglas Harbour
Jemseg
Mill Cove
Youngs Cove
Cumberland Bay
Waterborough

Campgrounds along or near Grand Lake include:

Grand Lake Campground
Princess Park
Mohawk Camping
Lakeside Campground

Lakes and rivers which drain into Grand Lake include:

Newcastle Creek
Salmon River
Coal Creek
Cumberland Bay Stream
Maquapit Lake

References

1 2 3 McGrath, H.; Stefanakis, E. (June 2014). "Grand Lake Meadows Historical Mapping". Geomatica. 68 (2): 119–128. doi:10.5623/cig2014-205.
↑ Ganong, William (1896). A Monograph of the place-nomenclature of the province of New Brunswick. Ottawa.
↑ Seager, Allen (1980). Minto, New Brunswick: A Study in Canadian Class Relations Between the War. Labour/ Le Travail. p. 5.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2012/04/19/nb-minto-generating-station-minto.html

Saint John River Watershed

Tributaries	Allagash River Aroostook River Baker Branch Saint John River Becaguimec Stream Big Black River Birch River Blackwater River Campbell Branch Little Black River River De Chute Daaquam River Fish River Hammond River Jemseg River Kennebecasis River Keswick River Little Black River Little Machias River Little Madawaska River Little River Little Saint Roch River Little Southwest Branch Saint John River Machias River Madawaska River Meduxnekeag River Musquacook Stream Nashwaak River Nerepis River North Branch Birch River North Branch Blackwater River North Branch Meduxnekeag River Northwest Branch Saint John River Oromocto River Red River Saint Croix Stream Saint Francis River Shields Branch South Branch Birch River South Branch Blackwater River South Branch Machias River South Branch Meduxnekeag River Southwest Branch Saint John River Tobique River West Branch Little Black River

Lakes	Baker Lake Beau Lake Chemquasabamticook Lake Churchill Lake Clear Lake Cross Lake Eagle Lake (Allagash R.) Eagle Lake (Fish R.) Fish River Lake Glazier Lake Grand Lake Long Lake Mactaquac Lake Millinocket Lake Mud Lake Munsungan Lake Musquacook Lakes Lake Pohenegamook Portage Lake Saint Froid Lake Saint John Ponds Scopan Lake Square Lake Umsaskis Lake

Towns	Allagash Ashland Blaine Bridgewater Caribou Eagle Lake Easton Edmundston Florenceville-Bristol Fort Fairfield Fort Kent Fredericton Frenchville Grand Bay–Westfield Grand Falls Grand Isle Hampton Hartland Hodgdon Houlton Lac-Frontière Limestone Littleton Madawaska Mapleton Mars Hill Masardis Monticello Nackawic New Limerick Oromocto Perham Perth-Andover Pohénégamook Portage Lake Presque Isle Quispamsis Rivière-Bleue Rothesay Sainte Agatha Saint-Camille-de-Lellis Saint-Cyprien Saint Francis Saint John Saint-Just-de-Bretenières Saint-Léonard Saint-Marcel Saint-Pamphile Saint-Zacharie Stockholm Sussex Van Buren Washburn Westfield Woodstock

Landmarks	Allagash Wilderness Waterway Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Clair–Fort Kent Bridge Edmundston–Madawaska Bridge Florenceville Bridge Fort Kent Hartland Bridge North Maine Woods Reversing Falls Saint John Harbour Bridge Saint John River High Level Crossing Saint Leonard–Van Buren Bridge Tinker Dam Watson Settlement Bridge

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Grand Lake (New Brunswick)

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