Bright Parish, New Brunswick

Coordinates: 46°10′48″N 67°06′00″W / 46.18000°N 67.10000°W / 46.18000; -67.10000 (Bright Parish, New Brunswick)
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Bright
Parish
Location within York County, New Brunswick.
Location within York County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 46°11′N 67°06′W / 46.18°N 67.10°W / 46.18; -67.10
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountyYork
Erected1869
Area
[1]
 • Land403.72 km2 (155.88 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total3,289
 • Density8.1/km2 (21/sq mi)
 • Change
2011-2016
Increase 7.2%
 • Dwellings
1,440
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

Bright is a civil parish in York County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2]

For governance purposes it is divided between the local service districts of Keswick Ridge and the parish of Bright,[3] both of which are members of Regional Service Commission 11 (RSC11).[4]

Origin of name

The parish was named in honour of John Bright, recently appointed British President of the Board of Trade at the time.[5]

History

Bright was erected in 1869 from Douglas Parish.[6]

Delineation

Bright Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act[2] as being bounded:

Northwest by the County line; northeasterly by Douglas Parish; southeasterly by the Saint John River, and southwesterly by the northeast line of lot number fifty-nine, granted to Jonathan Williams, and its northwesterly prolongation to the County line.

Communities

Parish population total does not include incorporated municipalities (in bold):

Bodies of water

Bodies of water at least partly in the parish

  • Saint John River

Demographics

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Census Profile, 2016 Census Bright, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved October 8, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  3. ^ "New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  4. ^ "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
  5. ^ Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 222.
  6. ^ "32 Vic. c. 49 An Act to erect part of the Parish of Douglas, in the County of York, into a separate Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of April 1869. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1869. pp. 94–95.
  7. ^ Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
  8. ^ 2006 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Bright Parish, New Brunswick
  9. ^ 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Bright Parish, New Brunswick

External links



46°10′48″N 67°06′00″W / 46.18000°N 67.10000°W / 46.18000; -67.10000 (Bright Parish, New Brunswick)

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