New Bandon-Salmon Beach
New Bandon-Salmon Beach was a local service district in New Brunswick, Canada. It was merged into the rural district of on 1 January 2023, with a small area now part of the city of Bathurst.
New Bandon was named after the town of Bandon in Ireland. It was located east of the city of Bathurst, New Brunswick on Nepisiguit Bay.
History
New Bandon-Salmon Beach was located on the historical territory of the Mi'kmaq people. The seigneurie of Nepisiguit, containing the area that would become New Bandon-Salmon Beach, was ceded to France on 19 March 1691. The community of New Bandon was founded in 1819 by 70 Protestant families from Bandon, County Cork in Ireland. New Bandon was touched by the 1825 Miramichi fire, which consumed approximately of forest in northeastern New Brunswick. Salmon Beach was also founded by Irish immigrants between 1820 and 1830. The parish of New Bandon was established in 1831.Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, New Bandon-Salmon Beach had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.| Name | Parish | Population | Population | Change | Land area | Population density |
| New Bandon-Salmon Beach part A | New Bandon | - | - | |||
| New Bandon-Salmon Beach part B | Bathurst | - | - | |||
| Total | — | ' | ' | - | - |