- Grand Lake (New Brunswick)
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cities =Grand Lake is a
lake in centralNew Brunswick ,Canada , approximately 40 kilometres east of Fredericton; and the province's largest freshwater lake. The lake drains through theJemseg River and the Grand Lake Meadows into theSaint John River .The lake is popular for recreation with locals, with several beaches and cottages on its shores.
Commercial barges of forest products were towed across the lake from a large sawmill in Chipman to a pulp mill in Saint John until the late 1990s. Other industrial activity around the lake includes New Brunswick's largest and currently only active coal mining area with extensive strip mines in the Newcastle Creek valley; a
coal -fired power generating station, operated byNB Power , is located on the lake shore near the village of Minto.Communities along or near Grand Lake include:
*Minto
*Princess Park
*Grand Lake West
*Douglas Harbour
*Jemseg
*Mill Cove
*Youngs Cove
*Cumberland BayLakes and rivers which drain into Grand Lake include:
*Newcastle Creek
*Salmon River
*Coal Creek
*Cumberland Bay Stream
*Maquapit Lake
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