Bloomfield, New Brunswick
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Bloomfield is a community in the Canadian province of New Brunswick
. It is located in Carleton County
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Unincorporated area in the Parish of Wilmot. Located about 20 kilometers from Woodstock and about the same from the Centreville area. It is pretty much the way it's always been a small farming community and it is predominately potatoes with some mixed farming and only one larger dairy farm.. Nothing but potato fields and farm houses as far as the eye can see. The church in Bloomfield is the United Church of Canada and the cemetery located right there (in route 550 and the Monticello, Maine Road) is called the Bloomfield United Church Cemetery. One of the local people whose family has been here for years seems to think the name was derived from a captain or colonel Bloomfield and at one time could have been called "New Ireland" as a lot of Irish people settled here. Was this area named after David Bloomfield who had a Loyalist land grant in 1799 on the Saint John River? (it could have gotten it's name from all of the blooming potato plants, because when in full bloom that's all you see is blooming fields everywhere.)
New Brunswick
New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...
. It is located in Carleton County
Carleton County, New Brunswick
Carleton County is located in west-central New Brunswick, Canada.The county is located in western New Brunswick, it borders on the west, the State of Maine; on the south, York County; on the north, Victoria County and is bisected by the Saint John River. Potato farming is a major industry...
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Unincorporated area in the Parish of Wilmot. Located about 20 kilometers from Woodstock and about the same from the Centreville area. It is pretty much the way it's always been a small farming community and it is predominately potatoes with some mixed farming and only one larger dairy farm.. Nothing but potato fields and farm houses as far as the eye can see. The church in Bloomfield is the United Church of Canada and the cemetery located right there (in route 550 and the Monticello, Maine Road) is called the Bloomfield United Church Cemetery. One of the local people whose family has been here for years seems to think the name was derived from a captain or colonel Bloomfield and at one time could have been called "New Ireland" as a lot of Irish people settled here. Was this area named after David Bloomfield who had a Loyalist land grant in 1799 on the Saint John River? (it could have gotten it's name from all of the blooming potato plants, because when in full bloom that's all you see is blooming fields everywhere.)