26-427: Florenceville may refer to: Florenceville, New Brunswick , Canada Florenceville Airport Florenceville Bridge Florenceville, Iowa , United States [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
52-650: A different musical performance from local entertainers. The town is the site of the Florenceville Bridge , a covered bridge built in 1907 that is unique in New Brunswick in combining a wooden covered bridge with steel trusses for the central spans over the Saint John River . Located just outside the town limits is a replica Noah's Ark , a 2/3-scale model of the Biblical Ark that Noah built, as described in
78-676: A flat, but much lower to the river and lower parts of the borough floods during the spring. The bedrock underlying Florenceville-Bristol at its oldest is part of the White Head Formation consisting of limestone and calcareous shales of Late Ordovician to Early Silurian in age. Later in history more sedimentary rocks were deposited forming the Smyrna Mills Formation during the Silurian, consisting of shales, limestones, and conglomerates. The range of mountains from North to South along
104-586: A new mill in the town to produce wood stove pellets in order to use more of what would be scrap material to help cut down on waste. The company is also one of the largest landowners in the province, next to Irving and Frasier. A.N.D. Communications & Graphics is a graphics company situated in Florenceville-Bristol. A.N.D. Communications & Graphics specializes in providing the local area with signage and local advertisement solutions. Both villages had schools offering grades 1 through 12 until 1956 when
130-583: A thin veneer of glacial till. There is also an extensive fault trending through Florenceville-Bristol from NE to SW which the Saint John River follows for a short distance through the town, causing its seemingly odd bend in flow in the local area. The town gets a fair amount of precipitation , although major paralyzing snow and rain storms such as blizzards and hurricanes are uncommon but do happen on occasion. On average, Florenceville receives approximately 1100 mm of precipitation per year. Snowfall
156-573: Is a Canadian multinational frozen food company established in 1957 in Florenceville , New Brunswick , Canada. It is the world's largest manufacturer of frozen potato products, with 1 in 4 french fries in the world being a McCain fry. Its major competitors are Simplot and Lamb Weston . McCain Foods was co-founded in 1957 by brothers Harrison McCain and Wallace McCain with the help of their two older brothers. In their first year of production,
182-403: Is a former town in the northwestern part of Carleton County , New Brunswick , Canada along the Saint John River . It held town status prior to 2023 and is now part of the town of Carleton North . Florenceville was originally known as Buttermilk Creek. In 1855 it was renamed Florenceville to honour Florence Nightingale , the famous Crimean War nurse. Florenceville was on the west side of
208-526: Is common between late November and early April, and snow usually stays on the ground beginning in December. Flooding occurs during the spring of most years and affects the low-lying areas of Florenceville-Bristol. It also has a free public art gallery . The Andrew and Laura McCain Gallery is a non-profit, community-supported gallery that shows about nine exhibitions a year of everything from exhibitions on loan from
234-526: Is home to the corporate headquarters for McCain Foods , the largest producer of French fries in the world. McCain also operates the Florenceville Airport , with a single paved runway located amid agricultural fields on the west side of the river. Mountain View Packers is another potato-centred business that calls Florencenville-Bristol home. Mountain View Packers is a business that specializes in
260-705: Is located where the Big Shiktehawk and Little Shiktehawk Streams empty into the Saint John River. This was an important stopping point for Native peoples as it was the start of the cross province route. They would canoe up the Big Shiktehawk Stream to Divide where they would portage a short distance to the Miramichi River and make their way to the eastern coast of New Brunswick. On 1 January 2023, Florenceville-Bristol amalgamated with Bath , Centreville and all or part of nine local service districts to form
286-628: Is the 19th largest private company in Canada, according to The Globe and Mail ' s Report on Business . Nancy McCain, of the McCain family, is married to former Canadian Finance Minister Bill Morneau . In 2020, McCain Foods won the Lausanne Index Prize – Best of Packaging. McCain Foods' UK subsidiary has a factory in Scarborough, North Yorkshire , and sponsored the former football stadium in
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#1733084513154312-568: Is the home of Carleton North High School as well as Bristol Elementary School. Florenceville-Bristol lies within the Appalachian Mountain Range. The town sits in the Saint John River Valley. On each side of the town lie rolling mountains peaking at 300–400 metres. The borough of Florenceville lies on a flat that has extremely rich soil due to past volcanic activity before the last ice age. The borough of Bristol also lies on
338-593: The Florenceville Regional High School was opened accommodating grades 7 through 12. The original schools became the elementary schools. Eventually these were replaced by an elementary school on the east side of the river. The Regional High School became a middle school when Carleton North High School was built in Bristol, NB. It was later decided that starting in the year 1996 the middle school students would not begin high school until grade 9. Bristol
364-528: The National Gallery of Canada to the work of local school children. Florenceville-Bristol is also home to the New Brunswick Potato Museum (Potato World) and Shogomoc Historical Railway Site. The Shogomoc Historical Railway Site showcases a restored CPR train station and three CPR cars and is home to Hunter Brothers Farm Market and Corn Maze. The town celebrates many festivals throughout
390-686: The Christian Old Testament . The replica ark contains the offices and student dorms for a private Bible school , The School of The Spirit, run by the Burnham Road Ministries. The sight of a 300-foot boat in the middle of potato fields within sight of Bristol and Oakland Mountain often attracts curious visitors. 46°26′36.5″N 67°36′54.8″W / 46.443472°N 67.615222°W / 46.443472; -67.615222 McCain Foods McCain Foods Limited
416-452: The Eastern side of the Saint John River known as Carr Mountain, The Pinnacle, and Oakland Mountain (N to S) are also part of the Smyrna Mills Formation and consist of mafic volcanic flows ( basalt ) and tuff . Within these mountains there are also two gabbro tubes that are Early Devonian in age. These tubes probably were the magma feeding tubes for volcanic flow that would have once overlain
442-574: The Saint John River and there the first post office and commercial section of the village was situated. In later years East Florenceville, previously known as Buckwheat Flats, became the commercial centre with five grocery stores and several other small businesses. There is a small strip mall along with several convenience stores and restaurants. The former village of Bristol is located on the Saint John River, in Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada, approximately 5 kilometres north of Florenceville. It
468-448: The company hired 30 employees and grossed over $ 150,000 in sales. During the 1970s–1990s, the company expanded into additional prepared food markets including frozen pizza and vegetables. As of 2017, the company is the world's largest manufacturer of frozen potato products, and has over 20,000 employees and 47 production facilities in six continents. The company generates more than C$ 8.5 billion in annual sales. Based on 2014 sales, it
494-408: The existing rock, but have since been eroded. Florenceville-Bristol are also extensively terraced with sands and gravels from both the workings of the Saint John River and its tributaries and also from the existence of a huge post-glacial lake that existed in the area for some time after the last Ice Age. In the areas that the bedrock is not covered by this aggregate material, the bedrock is covered by
520-525: The gas to produce power and heat for the Whittlesey plant. The system proved to be "impossible to commission successfully" and so McCain sued for compensation. The court's ruling confirmed that Eco-Tec were in breach of their contract. Legally, the court took a broadly inclusive approach to the scope of the losses incurred by McCain and the damages due to them, declining to treat a number of items as " consequential losses " for which Eco-Tec sought protection under
546-416: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Florenceville&oldid=932826824 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Florenceville, New Brunswick Florenceville-Bristol
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#1733084513154572-466: The new town of Carleton North . The community's name remains in official use. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Florenceville-Bristol had a population of 1,573 living in 681 of its 729 total private dwellings, a change of -1.9% from its 2016 population of 1,604 . With a land area of 15.74 km (6.08 sq mi), it had a population density of 99.9/km (258.8/sq mi) in 2021. Florenceville-Bristol
598-429: The processing of potatoes and cauliflower for the fresh market. Mountain View Packers sources all of their potatoes from local farmers while the cauliflower is grown on site at their own farm. Florenceville-Bristol is also home to H.J. Crabbe & Sons Lumber Mill. This long-running family business specializes in its quality softwood lumber made mainly from Balsam Fir and White Spruce. The company has also recently built
624-522: The town until the football team was dissolved on June 20, 2007. There is also a plant at Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire , and a cold store in Easton, Lincolnshire . A legal case in which McCain Foods (GB) Ltd sued Eco-Tec (Europe) Ltd. was decided by the High Court in 2011. McCain had ordered a system intended to remove hydrogen sulphide from biogas produced in its waste water treatment plant, which would allow
650-618: The year; Festival of Flavour, which takes place August and showcases a variety of wine related events, Canada Day-July, Snow Blast- February, Haunted Train October, Buttermilk Creek Fall Festival-September and more. Throughout the summer season, July to September, the town is host to an outdoor summer market, every Thursday from 10-2 pm at the Riverside Park. The outdoor summer market features food, produce, craft, woodworking, flower, baked goods, local meat and jewellery vendors. Each week showcases
676-522: Was named after the city of Bristol, England. The name replaced Kent Station in the 1880s. Present-day Bristol was the site of a battle between Micmac and Maliseet peoples. The area was originally named Shiktehawk, from the Maliseet for "where he killed him". The name was changed when the New Brunswick Railway was constructed and railway officials were unable to pronounce the name correctly. Bristol
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