Brunswick Parish, New Brunswick
Brunswick | |
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Coordinates: 45°50′N 64°35′W / 45.84°N 64.59°W | |
Country | Canada |
Province | New Brunswick |
County | Queens County |
Erected | 1816 |
Area | |
• Land | 704.43 km2 (271.98 sq mi) |
Population (2016)[1] | |
• Total | 203 |
• Density | 0.3/km2 (0.8/sq mi) |
• Change 2011-2016 | 5.7% |
• Dwellings | 159 |
Time zone | UTC-4 (AST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-3 (ADT) |
Brunswick is a civil parish in Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2]
For governance purposes it forms the local service district of the parish of Brunswick,[3] which is a member of Regional Service Commission 8 (RSC8).[4]
Origin of name
The parish was probably named in honour of the Duke of Brunswick,[5] German military leader against Napoleon, killed at the Battle of Quatre-Bras the year before the parish's erection.
History
Brunswick was erected in 1816 from unassigned territory to the rear of Waterborough and Wickham Parishea.[6]
In 1835 part of Brunswick was included in the newly erected Chipman Parish.[7]
Delineation
Brunswick Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act[2] as being bounded:
- Southeast, east and northeast by the County lines; west by Johnston Parish, and northwest by the northeasterly prolongation of the northwest line of Johnston Parish.
Communities
Parish population total does not include incorporated municipalities (in bold):
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Demographics
Population
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LanguageMother tongue (2016)[1]
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Access Routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[10]
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See also
References
- ^ a b c d "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Brunswick, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
- ^ a b "Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
- ^ "New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
- ^ "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 2 February 2021
- ^ Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 222.
- ^ "56 Geo. III c. 27 An Act to erect into a separate Parish all the Lands in Queen's County, in the rear of the Parishes of Wickham and Waterborough.". Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New-Brunswick. Passed in the Year 1816. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1816. p. 51.
- ^ "5 Wm. IV c. 23 An Act for erecting parts of the Towns or Parishes of Brunswick and Canning in Queen's County into a separate Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New-Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1835. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1835. p. 31.
- ^ Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
- ^ 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Brunswick Parish, New Brunswick
- ^ Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7