Residents
Waste Collection
The Municipality of Chester contracts to have household waste collected every two weeks. Absolutely everything you need to know about this service can be found on the Municipality of the District of Chester's website chester.ca. Look for Waste and Recycling at the bottom of the Home Page on the Municipal website or click here: https://chester.ca/waste-recycling for the direct link.
Village waste collection is on Tuesday morning. The map showing whether your household waste will be collected in Week A or Week B is on pages 16 and 17 of the Municipality's Waste Collection Calendar(23.81 MB) and the weeks are colour-coded in the months of the calendar.
Green Bin Collection
We all know how odoriferous (aka stinky) the green bins can get in the warmer months! In the summer, the Municipality collects green bins every other week, as usual, and the Village contracts for the bins to be collected on the off-weeks to help reduce the aroma. Hint: Try to keep your bin in the shade if you can.
The Summer 2025 weekly green bin collection dates are mid-June through to the end of September. A reminder will be posted on the Notice Board.
In June of 1990 the Commission, on behalf of the citizens of the Village of Chester, gratefully received a bequest from the Estate of Clarissa Anderson Gibbs.
The gifts of a parcel of land and a water lot are on the Back Harbour in front of the house where Mrs. Gibbs spent her summers. Mrs. Gibbs' father, Dr. Andrew Anderson of St. Augustine, Florida, built the house you see in the photograph in 1905. It is now the permanent residence of Dr. Anderson's great-grandson.
Over the years, the property came to be known as the Jib Lot because the shape of the property line is like a boat's triangular staysail, or jib.
On the Victoria Street side of the Jib Lot, one will see a handsome monument erected by the Chester Volunteer Fire Department, memorializing the firefighters who have served the Village of Chester and Area well, since 1936. The monument was commissioned by the CVFD, dedicated on October 9, 1994, and is maintained by the CVFD using monies donated to the CVFD Memorial Fund.
The Commission has committed to maintain the land for recreational use by the community.
