page_title: Plaster Rock, New Brunswick
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Plaster Rock, New Brunswick / History
caption_attribution_description: English: If hockey is Canada's most popular game, then nobody does a better job of making us feel like Canadians than the people of Plaster Rock. Every year, this community brings together 120 teams from around the world to compete for the "World Pond Hockey Championship. New Brunswick, Canada. Français&#160;: Si le hockey est notre sport national par excellence, le patriotisme se porte bien à Plaster Rock, une communauté qui réunit chaque année 120 équipes du monde entier pour participer à son championnat mondial de hockey extérieur. Nouveau-Brunswick (Canada).
context_page_description: Plaster Rock is a Canadian village in Victoria County, New Brunswick. The mayor is Alexis Fenner.
context_section_description: Plaster Rock’s first settlers were Hezekiah Day and his two brothers, who arrived in 1881. Plaster Rock was incorporated as the Village of Plaster Rock on November 9, 1966. Hezekiah Day gave Plaster Rock its name based on the hill on the other side of the Tobique River – the rock is made up of gypsum, or plaster.
  The second settlers, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ridgewell, arrived in 1882. The third settler was a gentleman named David Roulston and his family. 
  Primarily English, the town is historically a logging and lumbering community. Known as the Gateway to Mount Carleton Provincial Park, the community is the source of business, commerce, banking, grocery shopping, and religious and sport gatherings for the surrounding hamlets and homes of the Tobique River region. The Tobique River, which has its source Nictau Lake at Mt. Carleton Provincial Park, flows through the tiny communities of Nictau, Riley Brook, Oxbow, Plaster Rock, Arthurette, Red Rapids, and empties into the Saint John River above Perth-Andover.
  The Tobique First Nations Reserve is located where the Tobique and Saint John Rivers come together. The town has 6 churches, namely a Catholic Church, an Anglican Church, a Free-will Baptist Church, a United Baptist Church, a United Church of Canada, and a Pentecostal Church. The average congregation is 20-45 members of the first 5 churches, with the Pentecost church being an exception with a congregation of approximately 400 members, who are in part from the village of Plaster Rock, but mostly from the surrounding region of Victoria County. The Pentecostal Church also has its own private school, the only other school in the village aside from the village`s Public Junior and High Schools. 
  Plaster Rock is home of the World Pond Hockey Championships, which take place annually in February on Roulston Lake, featuring 120 teams from around the world. In 2016 Wayne Gretzky attended the event and Budweiser introduced its 20-metre goal-light as it began its trek across Canada and eventually to the North Pole.
  In June, Fiddlers on The Tobique is a large event attracting tourists and visitors from all over the world as they put approximately 1300 canoes into the waters and float accompanied by fiddlers and their Maritime music.
  Plaster Rock gets a rebroadcasting signal of CIKX-FM, and is heard at the frequency of 88.3 MHz.
caption: The World Pond Hockey Championship has been held every year in Plaster Rock since 2002
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