Brunswick Parish, New Brunswick

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

Brunswick
Parish
Location within Queens County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 45.84°N 64.59°W / 45.84; -64.59
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountyQueens County
Erected1816
Area
 • Land704.43 km2 (271.98 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total203
 • Density0.3/km2 (0.8/sq mi)
 • Change
2011-2016
 5.7%
 • Dwellings
159
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

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):

Demographics

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[10]

See also

References
  1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Brunswick, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
  2. "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 19 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. "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.
  7. "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.
  8. Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
  9. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Brunswick Parish, New Brunswick
  10. Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7



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