Country Canada County Kent County Name changed to Harcourt 1894 Elevation 60 m Area code 506 | Province New Brunswick Settlement Established 1869 Time zone AST (UTC-4) Population 390 (2011) | |
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Weather -3°C, Wind SW at 21 km/h, 81% Humidity Parish Harcourt Parish, New Brunswick | ||
Harcourt is a Canadian unincorporated community, located in Kent County, New Brunswick. The community is situated in southeastern New Brunswick, Between Moncton and Rogersville. Population, according to Statistics Canada Census 2011, is 390. Average age of population is 50. Harcourt is located around the intersection of Route 116 and Route 126.
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Education
Most students go to Harcourt School.
History
A settlement called Weldford was first established on this site in 1869 when the railway was constructed. By 1871 the population was 150. In 1894 the settlement was renamed Harcourt and by 1898 the population had grown to 250 and had become the site of a station on the Intercolonial Railway. Harcourt was a farming and lumbering settlement with 7 stores, 2 hotels, 1 tannery, 1 sawmill, 1 hemlock bark extract factory, 1 carriage factory, 3 churches.
The plane carrying T. Babbitt Parlee crashed near here in 1957.