Johnston Parish, New Brunswick

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

Johnston
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
Erected1839
Area
 • Land359.32 km2 (138.73 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total560
 • Density1.6/km2 (4/sq mi)
 • Change
2011-2016
 15.2%
 • Dwellings
392
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes it is divided between the village of Cambridge-Narrows and the local service district of the parish of Johnston,[3] both of which are members of Regional Service Commission 8 (RSC8).[4]

Origin of name

The parish was named in honour of Hugh Johnston Jr., MLA for Queens County and member of the Executive Council at the time.[5] Johnston's father Hugh preceded him as MLA from Saint John County and died there in 1829.

History

Johnston was erected in 1839 from Wickham Parish.[6]

In 1852 part of Johnston was included in the newly erected Cambridge Parish.[7]

In 1856 the boundary with Cambridge Parish was altered.[8]

Delineation

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

Southwest by Wickham and Cambridge Parishes; northwest by the prolongation of a line running north fifty-four degrees east by the magnet of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, from the west angle of the grant to Samuel Hughes, at Lower Cambridge; east by the east line of lot number eleven, granted to A.C. Starrit, on the north side of the Canaan River above Coles Island and its northern and southern prolongation, and southeast by the County line.

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

Demographics

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[11]

See also

References
  1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census Johnston, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved September 27, 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. 242.
  6. "2 Vic. c. 21 An Act to erect a part of the Parish of Wickham, in Queen's County into a separate and distinct Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1839. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1839. pp. 65–66.
  7. "15 Vic. c. 36 An Act for the erection of a new Parish in Queen's County.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1852. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1852. pp. 55–56.
  8. "19 Vic. c. 5 An Act to alter the Division Line of the Parish of Cambridge, in Queen's County.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Months of March, April, and May 1856. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1856. pp. 4–5.
  9. Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
  10. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Johnston Parish, New Brunswick
  11. Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7



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