Welcome to Bessborough ...
Although we found mention of Bessborough during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> We believe that Bessborough had a post office at one time. We have done a cursory search and haven't been able to find any evidence that the community still exists..
We've added Bessborough to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Bessborough, please Contact Us.
The origin (or the toponymy) of Bessborough: Named after Lord Bessborough, Governor General of Canada.
Time Zone: The area where we believe that Bessborough might be (or was) located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time. The time zone in French: MST- Heure Normale des Rocheuses (HNR), MDT- Heure Avancée des Rocheuses (HAR).
Area Codes for Bessborough: 250, 236, 257, 672 & 778<2>
Communities near Bessborough ...
We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Bessborough.
- Dawson Creek
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Pouce Coupe
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Arras
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arras
- Farmington
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Progress
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Progress
- Sunset Prairie
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Iracard ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iracard
- Tower Lake
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Pine Valley
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Rolla
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolla
TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Bessborough ...
Looking for more information about Bessborough? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.
While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Bessborough, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Bessborough.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past Bessborough and then turned east". While Bessborough could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Bessborough as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that Bessborough could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 250 code has been Overlayed with one of the following codes: 236, 257, 672 or 778. New phone numbers in the Bessborough area will be assigned with one of these codes: 250, 236, 257, 672 or 778. As a result, placing a call in the Bessborough area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number). |
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