Grand Lake
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Grand Lake is a lake located in central New Brunswick, Canada. It is approximately 40 kilometers east of Fredericton. It is the province's largest open body of water and measures approximately 33 kilometres (21 mi) long and 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) wide. 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. The Wolastoqiyik word for Grand Lake is Kchee'quis and the Peskotomuhkati word is Kaouakousaki. 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 activities 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. 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 activities for...
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- Saint John River High Level Crossing bridge · 16 km away