Blissville Parish, New Brunswick

The parish was probably named in honour of John Murray Bliss,[5] senior justice of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick at the time the Act erecting the parish[6] was passed in 1834 but died before it became effective in January 1835.

Blissville was erected in 1835 from Burton and Lincoln Parishes.[6]

In 1874 Gladstone Parish was erected from the western part of Blissville.[7]

In 1896 the land boundary with Gladstone was completely altered, adding a large area to Blissville; the boundary with Burton was altered along the Nerepis Road.[8]

In 1949 the boundary with Burton was restored to its pre-1896 line.[9]

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

South and southeast by the County lines; northeast by Burton Parish, and west and northwest by a line beginning on the western bank or shore of the Oromocto River, where the dividing line between the Parishes of Blissville and Burton intersects the same, thence following the various courses of the said river up stream to the main forks; thence following the various courses of the south branch of the said river up stream to the northeast angle of lot thirteen, granted to Nathaniel Hubbard, about one mile above the forks; thence westerly along the northern line of said lot to the northwest angle thereof; thence southerly along the rear line of said lots fronting on western side of said south branch to the old Block House Road;[lower-alpha 1] and thence south sixty-seven degrees west to the Charlotte County line.

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

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

• Oromocto River

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[12]

• List of parishes in New Brunswick