McAdam Parish, New Brunswick

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

This article is about the parish. For the village, see McAdam, New Brunswick.
McAdam
Parish
Location within York County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 45.68°N 67.40°W / 45.68; -67.40
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountyYork
Erected1895
Area
 • Land537.42 km2 (207.50 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total73
 • Density0.1/km2 (0.3/sq mi)
 • Change
(2011-2016)
 170.4%
 • Dwellings
63
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes it is divided between the village of McAdam and the local service district of the parish of McAdam,[3] both of which are members of the Southwest New Brunswick Service Commission (SNBSC).[4]

Origin of name

The parish was named in honour of John McAdam, a timber merchant and politician who died in 1893.[5]

History

McAdam was erected in 1895 from Prince William and Dumfries Parishes.[6]

Delineation

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

East by Dumfries and Prince William Parishes; southeast by Manners Sutton Parish; south and southwest by the County line and the International Boundary; northwest by the southwesterly prolongation of a line running southwesterly and parallel to the upper line of Prince William Parish from the southwest angle of lot number six, granted to John Benn below Shogomoc Stream.

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:[10]

See also

References
  1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: McAdam, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved October 7, 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 25 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. 247.
  6. "57 Vic. c. 34 An Act to erect part of the Parishes of Prince William and Dumfries, in the County of York, into a separate Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of April, 1894. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1894. pp. 157–160.
  7. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
  8. 2006 Statistics Canada Community Profile: McAdam Parish, New Brunswick
  9. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: McAdam Parish, New Brunswick
  10. Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7



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