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Bathurst (Canada)

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Bathurst

City, port, and administrative headquarters of Gloucester County, north New Brunswick, Canada; population (1991) 15,900. It is situated at the mouth of the Nepisiguit River. Industries include copper and zinc mining; products include paper and timber.

Bathurst was founded by French missionaries in 1619 and called Nepisiguit. It became British in 1755 and was renamed Bathurst in 1826; it was incorporated as a city in 1966.



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