| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Newcastle, town, Canada |
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| town (1991 pop. 5,711), E central N.B., Canada, on the Miramichi River. Located in a lumbering region, it has sawmills and a large pulp mill. Newcastle was the birthplace of the Canadian leader Peter Mitchell and was the boyhood home of Lord Beaverbrook. |
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