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Sir James Hamet Dunn, 1st Baronet (29 October 1874 – 1 January 1956) was a Canadian financier and industrialist during the first half of the 20th century. He is recognized chiefly for his 1935 rescue and subsequent 20-year presidency and proprietorship of Algoma Steel.
The endeavor helped to accelerate the town of Bathurst into the modern age; the hydro-electric dam at Tetagouche Falls was the first of its kind in New Brunswick. In 1919, the Bathurst Lumber Company amalgamated with the Bathurst Electric and Water Power Company which led to the building of a much larger dam at Grand Falls on the Nepisiguit ...
The trail is divided further into 20 separate sections, labeled from A to U starting at Daly Point Nature Reserve in Bathurst, New Brunswick. The trail begins with Daly Point nature trails and then becomes a Rails to Trails hike on the former line of the Caraquet and Gulf Shore Railway until it joins the old portage route by the Nepisiguit ...
The Highway 401 extension features 300 acres (1.2 km 2) of green space and over 20 kilometres (12 mi) of recreational trails, with seven bridges and two tunnels separating the trails from roads. [187] [188] Interpretive signage includes information about First Nations in Canada, Tallgrass prairie and the Carolinian landscape. [189]
Dunn Peak (sometimes known locally as the Dunn Peaks) is a group of peaks in the central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Its most prominent summit, Matterhorn Peak, rises to 2,636 metres (8,648 ft), making it the highest point in the Shuswap Highland. [3] The peak and its surroundings are contained in Dunn Peak Provincial Park. [4]
Construction began in 2004 and the new Park Bridge opened 21 months ahead of schedule when it was originally scheduled to open in August 2008. It is 405 metres (1,330 ft) long, and it cost $130 million with 5.8 km (3.6 mi) of upgrades to the approaches. [2] About 10,000 vehicles use this section daily; 24% of traffic is heavy truck traffic. [3]
The Nepisiguit River is a major river in northern New Brunswick, Canada, which enters the sea at the city of Bathurst, into the Nepisiguit Bay, part of the Bay of Chaleur. Appears in Jesuit Relations (1643) as Nepegiguit, a corruption through the French of the Micmac Win-peg-ij-oo-ik, "the river that dashes roughly along", a reference to the ...
Only a few players won it twice. Two pairs did win the Hilliard trophy more than once after it was downgraded in status: Kay and James Dunn, three times, Helen and Morris Portugal twice, all during the five-year span 1951 to 1955. Mary Jane and Arnold Kauder won in 1949 and finished second in 1950 and 1957.