New Annan | |
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rural unincorporated community | |
Coordinates: 46°25′10″N 63°42′42″W / 46.41944°N 63.71167°W | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Prince Edward Island |
County | Prince County |
Founded | 1800s |
Time zone | Atlantic (AST) (UTC-4) |
• Summer (DST) | ADT (UTC-3) |
Canadian Postal code | C1N |
NTS Map | 011L05 |
GNBC Code | BABWL |
New Annan is a Canadian rural community located in Prince County, Prince Edward Island. It is named after Annan, Dumfries-shire, Scotland.
Cavendish Farms, Prince Edward Island's largest private sector employer, maintains two large frozen foods processing plants in New Annan.
An 1875 gazetteer refers to New Annan Mills as a "small village in Prince co. [County], 6 miles from Summerside. Pop.[Population] 80."
On November 13, 2011, two people died in suspicious circumstances in New Annan. A car parked at the roadside with a man and a woman in it was found on Highway 2 in New Annan, between highways 110 and 120. The woman was dead due to stabbing and the man later died in hospital due to a self-inflicted stab wound.