Construction of the present airport near South Tetagouche was begun in 1964 as a project funded by the Town of Bathurst and Gloucester county municipalities. Lights were installed along the 4,000 by 75 foot paved runway in 1968. Bathurst was meanwhile incorporated as a city, the province's sixth, in 1966;archives.gnb.ca: "Where is Home? New Brunswick Communities Past and Present - Bathurst" hunters were dismayed because the increased size of the city meant, ipso facto, that they were expropriated.
Construction of the present airport near South Tetagouche was begun in 1964 as a project funded by the Town of Bathurst and Gloucester county municipalities. Lights were installed along the 4,000 by 75 foot paved runway in 1968. Bathurst was meanwhile incorporated as a city, the province's sixth, in 1966;archives.gnb.ca: "Where is Home? New Brunswick Communities Past and Present - Bathurst" hunters were dismayed because the increased size of the city meant, ipso facto that they were expropriated.