Pamdenec, New Brunswick

The village of Pamdenec was a small bedroom community located on the Saint John River, 1.85 kilometres (1.15 mi) north of Grand Bay, in Westfield Parish, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. Pamdenec had a post office from 1924 to 1968, was incorporated as a village in 1966, and became part of the village of Grand Bay in 1972.[1]

Pamdenec
Village
Typical Pamdenec Cottage
Typical Pamdenec Cottage
Pamdenec is located in New Brunswick
Pamdenec
Pamdenec
Coordinates: 45°18′47″N 66°11′38″W / 45.313°N 66.194°W / 45.313; -66.194
CountryCanada
ProvinceNew Brunswick
CountyKings County
Incorporated1966
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)
Canadian postal code
E5K
Area code506
Telephone Exchange217, 738, 757
NTS Map021G08
GNBC CodeDBEFJ

"Pamdenec" is a Maliseet name, meaning "little hill".[2] The village was formerly called Hillside and in 1866, under that name, was a farming community consisting of approximately 75 families.[1]

In 2011, the area was listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places for its cultural value as the site of a group of summer cottages owned by members of the Jewish community of Saint John, mainly from the 1920s to the 1960s.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Pamdenic". Where Is Home? New Brunswick Communities Past and Present. Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  2. ^ Ganong, W. F. (1906). "Additions and Corrections to Monographs on the Place-Nomenclature, Cartography, Historic Sites, Boundaries and Settlement-origins of the Province of New Brunswick". Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Second Series, Vol. 12, Section 2. p. 40. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Pamdenec Summer Community". Canada's Historic Places. Parks Canada Agency. Retrieved 25 July 2015.