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Hopewell Parish, New Brunswick

Coordinates: 45°49′N 64°40′W / 45.81°N 64.66°W / 45.81; -64.66
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Hopewell
Parish
Location within Albert County.
Location within Albert County.
Coordinates: 45°49′N 64°40′W / 45.81°N 64.66°W / 45.81; -64.66
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountyAlbert
Erected1786
Area
[1]
 • Land149.08 km2 (57.56 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total647
 • Density4.3/km2 (11/sq mi)
 • Pop 2011-2016
Increase 0.6%
 • Dwellings
319
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

Hopewell is a civil parish in eastern Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2] It comprises one village and one local service district, both of which are members of the Southeast Regional Service Commission.[3] The Hopewell Rocks are the parish's best known feature.

The Census subdivision of the same name includes all of the parish except the village of Riverside-Albert.[1]


History

Hopewell parish originates in 1765 as a one-hundred-thousand acre Cumberland County township grant within the British Colony of Nova Scotia, following le "Grand_Dérangement''". [4]. The proprietors of the grant may have named it for Hopewell, Pennsylvania, possibly the home of some of the settlers of the township.[5]

The bounds of the township grant are described as follows, "To begin due west form the point of land lying between the Memramcook and Petitcodiac on the west side of the Petitcodiac River and to extend from form [sic] thence west twenty miles and from thence south to the seacoast on the Channel of Chignecto…excepting the lands lying within the said limits excepting 200 acres of land granted to John Burbridge Esq."[4]

Hopewell was erected as a parish in Westmorland County, NB in 1785, shortly after the division of New Brunswick from Nova Scotia in 1784. It was erected [6] with the boundaries of the township unchanged.

Of note in the early territorial divisions of the province, Hopewell Township's western boundary defined Saint John County's eastern extent, at what is the Alma and Harvey Parish boundary today (2021). Alma parish being the younger of the parishes resides in what were portions of Saint john and Westmorland counties.

Hopewell parish survived a number of additions and subtractions, most notably the removal of Harvey Parish in 1838, and, its placement in Albert, the fourteenth county, at it's erection in 1845.

Boundaries

Hopewell Parish is bounded on the east and south by the Petitcodiac River and Shepody Bay, on the north by the prolongation of a grant line opposite Fort Folly Point, and on the west by the Shepody River, Crooked Brook, and a line running 20° west of north.[2]

Municipality

Riverside-Albert is located in the southwestern corner of the parish, along the Shepody River between the mouths of Crooked Brook and Chapman Creek.[7]

Local service district

The local service district of the parish of Hopewell contains all of the parish outside Riverside-Albert.[8]

The LSD was established on 23 November 1966 to assess for fire protection following the abolition of county councils by the new Municipalities Act. First aid & ambulance services were added on 21 January 1976.[9]

Today the LSD assesses for community & recreation services in addition to the basic LSD services of fire protection, police services, land use planning, emergency measures, and dog control.[10] The taxing authority is 616.00 Hopewell.

Communities

Parish population total does not include incorporated municipality (in bold).

Bodies of water & Islands

This is a list of rivers, lakes, streams, creeks, marshes and Islands that are at least partially in this parish

Demographics

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Hopewell, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Communities in each of the 12 Regional Service Commissions (RSC) / Les communautés dans chacune des 12 Commissions de services régionaux (CSR)" (PDF), Government of New Brunswick, July 2017, retrieved 1 February 2021
  4. ^ a b Shoebottom, Bradley (February 2001). "The Wanderers: The Establishment of Hopewell Township". ResearchGate. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  5. ^ Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 240.
  6. ^ "26 Geo. III Chapter I. An Act for the better ascertaining and confirming the Boundaries of the several Counties within this Province, and for subdividing them into Towns or Parishes.". Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New-Brunswick, passed in the year 1786. Saint John, New Brunswick: Government of New Brunswick. 1786. pp. 3–12.
  7. ^ "New Brunswick Regulation 85-6 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 85-45)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  8. ^ "New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  9. ^ "Regulation 76–17 under the Municipalities Act (O. C. 76–71)". The Royal Gazette. 134. Fredericton: 91. 28 January 1976.
  10. ^ "2020 Local Government Statistics for New Brunswick" (PDF). Department of Environment and Local Government. p. 55. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  11. ^ Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
  12. ^ 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Hopewell Parish, New Brunswick
  13. ^ Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7



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