Greenwich Parish, New Brunswick

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

This article is about the parish. For the community, see Greenwich Hill, New Brunswick.
Greenwich
Parish
Location within Kings County, New Brunswick.
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountyKings County
Erected1795
Area
 • Land114.46 km2 (44.19 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total1,058
 • Density9.2/km2 (24/sq mi)
 • Change 2011-2016
 1.1%
 • Dwellings
560
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

The local service district is a member of the Fundy Regional Service Commission (FRSC).[3]

Origin of name

The origin of the parish's name is uncertain, Greenwich being a placename in several of the Thirteen Colonies. Ganong listed Greenwich, England as "perhaps" the source.[4]

History

Greenwich was erected in 1795 from Kingston Parish.[5]

In 1860 the mainland east of the Saint John River was included in the newly erected parish of Kars.[6]

Delineation

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

Northwest by the County line; southwest by Westfield Parish; southeast, east and northeast by the Saint John River including the islands in the Long Reach.

Governance

The entire parish forms the local service district of the parish of Greenwich, established in 1976 to assess for fire protection and first aid and ambulance services. Recreatonal facilities were added to the assessment in 1995, with first aid and ambulance services removed at the same time.

Communities

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

Bodies of water & Islands

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

  • Clark Lake
  • Murphy Lake
  • Saint John River

Demographics

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[9]

See also

References
  1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Greenwich, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
  2. "Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  3. "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
  4. Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 238.
  5. "35 Geo. III c. 3 An Act in addition to an Act intitled, 'An Act for the better Ascertaining and Confirming the Boundaries of the several Counties within this Province, and for subdividing them into Towns or Parishes.'". Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New-Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1795. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1795. pp. 338–340.
  6. "22 Vic. c. 51 An Act to erect parts of the Parishes of Greenwich and Springfield, in King's County, into a separate Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in March and April 1859. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1859. pp. 129–130.
  7. Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
  8. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Greenwich Parish, New Brunswick
  9. Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7



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