Paper Company built what was
then one of the largest
newsprint mills in the world
and the town changed forever.
From 1929 on, the mill would
dominate life in Dalhousie.
   Parents of some of our
older citizens would tell
their children that, in some
ways, it was a better town

before the mill. Certainly
the mill is one of the town's
most imposing features. It
occupies much of one side of
the main street, blocking
access to and even views of
the shore. Dalhousie has been
called "a waterfront town
without a waterfront." The
mill also meant that the town

had a high average income. It
brought a new and different
kind of prosperity. Still,
Dalhousie was in the
situation of many one-
industry towns – dependent on
the success of that one main
sector of its economy.
   Dalhousie is unique among
New Brunswick towns in

several ways: it's the
farthest north; it is
dominated visually,
economically and socially by
a mill; in no other town has
a hill so influenced the
landscape. This is the
Dalhousie story – the story
of a papertown.