Gladstone Parish, New Brunswick

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

Gladstone
Parish
Location within Sunbury County, New Brunswick
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountySunbury County
Erected1874
Area
 • Land362.23 km2 (139.86 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total452
 • Density1.2/km2 (3/sq mi)
 • Change
2011-2016
 6.8%
 • Dwellings
239
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes it is divided between the villages of Fredericton Junction and Tracy[3] and the local service district of the parish of Gladstone,[4] all of which are members of Regional Service Commission 11 (RSC11).[5]

Origin of name

The parish was named for William Ewart Gladstone,[6] Prime Minister of the United Kingdom until his defeat shortly after the House of Assembly began its 1874 session.[7]

History

Gladstone was erected in 1874 from Blissville Parish.[8]

In 1896 the land boundary with Blissville was changed to run along grant lines and magnetic bearing,[9]

Delineation

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

All that part of the County to the southwest of the Saint John river, not included in the parishes of Burton, Lincoln and Blissville.

Communities

communities in bold are municipalities

  • Fredericton Junction
  • Gladstone
  • Three Tree Creek
  • Tracy
  • Tracyville
  • Upper Tracy
  • Vespra

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:[12]

See also

References
  1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Gladstone, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  2. "Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  3. "New Brunswick Regulation 85-6 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 85-45)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  4. "New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  5. "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
  6. Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 236.
  7. Journal of the House of Assembly of the Province of New Brunswick, being The Fifth Session of the Twenty Second General Assembly. Fredericton: Province of New Brunswick. 1874. p. 9.
  8. "37 Vic. c. 38 An Act to erect a part of the Parish of Blissville, in the County of Sunbury, into a separate Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Months of March & April 1874. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1874. pp. 112–113.
  9. "59 Vic. c. 8 An Act to Revise and Codify an Act to Provide for the Division of the Province into Counties, Towns and Parishes.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of March, 1896. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1896. pp. 86–123.
  10. Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
  11. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Gladstone Parish, New Brunswick
  12. Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7



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