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New Brunswick Tourism Region : Fundy Shore
Description From Owner:
- The headland 12 km S which extends into the Bay of Fundy was known by the Passamaquoddy as Mamilahomak for 'promontory,' and Kwenskwekenuksesislk for 'point of the little bluffs.'
- It is first shown on a 1686 map as Point aux Napraux, believed to be a corruption of the French lapereau for 'little rabbit.' The river, harbour and community all take their name from Point Lepreau.
- The post office opened here as Lepreaux in 1850 but in 1854 the name was changed to Lepreau.
- Plumper Hole is a cove 3 km NE of Point Lepreau named for HM Plumper, a brig of war wrecked there Dec. 5, 1812, with a loss of 50 lives.
- Most of the $70,000 in gold and silver coins was subsequently recovered from the wreck. The recovered gold coins are locally nicknamed 'plumpers.'
- Little Lepreau River No. 1.5 (Mill Pond) covered bridge, built in 1910, is off Route 790 beside Little Lepreau Road.
- Point Lepreau: Site of the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station and Point Lepreau Waste Management Facility.
- Atlantic Canada's only nuclear generating station, built in 1983 at a cost of $1.4 billion, provides about 30% of the province's electricity needs.
- The waste management facility stores spent fuel from the reactors along with low- and medium-level radioactive wastes.
- NB Hydro has begun the world's first refurbishment of a CANDU 6 reactor, a $1.4 billion refit which will extend the life of the plant for 25 years.
- It got off to an unfortunate start. In October of 2008, two $ 10 million turbines destined for the reactor fell off a barge into Saint John harbour.
- They were recovered, returned to Siemens, the Scottish manufacturer, and found to be mostly in good shape.
- With permission from 'New Brunswick Place Names' David E. Scott 2009
Address of this page: http://nb.ruralroutes.com/Lepreau