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Country
  
Canada

Village Status
  
1966

Access Routes Route 11
  
Route 134

Area code
  
Area code 506

Province
  
County
  
Time zone
  
AST (UTC-4)

Population
  
351 (2011)

Local time
  
Wednesday 6:12 PM

Aroostook, New Brunswick

Postal code(s)
  
E3N 0A73V93W1-3W63Z2-3Z94A1-4A6, 4A8-4A94B1-4B94C1-4C94E1-4E94G1-4G2, 4G44H14J2-4J34K54L34N34P44R4, 4R64S1-4S94T1-4T2, 4T65B75C2-5C3, 5C5-5C6

Weather
  
4°C, Wind E at 3 km/h, 96% Humidity

Parish
  
Andover Parish, New Brunswick

Aroostook (2011 population: 351) is a Canadian village in Victoria County, New Brunswick.

Contents

Map of Aroostook, NB, Canada

Geography

The village is located on the west bank of the Saint John River at the mouth of the Aroostook River. It is approximately 11 kilometres north of Perth-Andover.

History

Aroostook was founded in 1852 and became an important railway centre in 1878 with the completion of the New Brunswick Railway from Fredericton to Edmundston and the Aroostook River Railway from Aroostook to Caribou, Maine. Both railways were leased by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1890 and a large rail yard and locomotive roundhouse was constructed in the village to service CPR trains operating in northwestern New Brunswick and northern Maine.

The construction of taxpayer-funded highways during the 20th century saw railways decline in use following World War II. CPR abandoned service through Aroostook in March 1987 following the loss of 2 bridges to ice jams downstream from the village.

References

Aroostook, New Brunswick Wikipedia


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