Gordon Parish, New Brunswick

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

Gordon
Parish
Location within Victoria County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 46.8375°N 67.3825°W / 46.8375; -67.3825
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountyVictoria
Erected1864
Area
 • Land1,431.58 km2 (552.74 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total1,493
 • Density1.0/km2 (3/sq mi)
 • Change
2011-2016
 4.7%
 • Dwellings
786
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes it is divided between the village of Plaster Rock and the local service district of the parish of Gordon,[3] both of which are members of the Western Valley Regional Service Commission (WVRSC).[4]

Origin of name

The parish was named in honour of Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick at the time.[5]

History

Gordon was erected in 1864 from Grand Falls, Perth, and Saint-Léonard Parishes.[6] Three months later the Carleton County line was restored to its pre-1854 course,[7] removing part of Gordon.

In 1871 all of Gordon north of a line true east and west from the southern end of Long Island in the Tobique River was erected as Lorne Parish.[8]

In 1896 the boundary with Lorne was altered.[9]

Delineation

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

Southerly and southeasterly by Carleton and York Counties; easterly by Northumberland County; north by a line run true east and west from the foot of Long Island,[lower-alpha 1] in the Tobique River; and westerly by a line commencing at a point where the Royal Road[lower-alpha 2] intersects the line between the counties of Carleton and Victoria; and running along the said Royal Road northerly to a point eight miles north of the Tobique river; thence a course north forty-five degrees east, until it strikes the north boundary of the parish.

Communities

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

Demographics

See also

Notes
  1. The line now runs from the foot of an unnamed island downriver of Long Island; apparently Long Island has broken into several islands since the parish was erected.
  2. The Royal Road does not appear on provincial road maps but does appear on cadastral land grant maps.

References
  1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Gordon, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved October 2, 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 23 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 1 February 2021
  5. Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 236.
  6. "26 Vic. c. 44 An Act to erect parts of the Parishes of Grand Falls, Perth, and Saint Leonard, in the County of Victoria, 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, 1863. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1863. p. 101.
  7. "27 Vic. c. 27 An Act to define the Boundaries between the Counties of Carleton and Victoria.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Month of April 1864. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1864. pp. 50–51.
  8. "34 Vic. c. 29 An Act to erect part of the Parish of Gordon, in the County of Victoria, into a separate Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of May 1871. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1871. pp. 168–169.
  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: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
  11. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Gordon Parish, New Brunswick



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