New Maryland Parish, New Brunswick

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

This article is about the parish. For the village, see New Maryland, New Brunswick.
New Maryland
Parish
Location within York County, New Brunswick.
map incorrectly includes Fredericton in New Maryland
Coordinates: 45.6925°N 66.8125°W / 45.6925; -66.8125
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountyYork
Erected1850
Area
 • Land375.44 km2 (144.96 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total2,606
 • Density6.9/km2 (18/sq mi)
 • Change
2011-2016
 5.7%
 • Dwellings
998
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes it is divided between the village of New Maryland the local service district of the parish of New Maryland,[3] both of which are members of Regional Service Commission 11 (RSC11).[4] The LSD further includes the special service areas of Howorth and Nasonworth.

Origin of name

The parish probably came from members of the Maryland Loyalists Battalion who settled in the area. Ganong states that the name came from the settlement of Maryland.[5]

History

New Maryland was erected in 1850 from Kingsclear Parish and unassigned territory.[6]

Delineation

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

Northeast by the City of Fredericton;[lower-alpha 1] southeast and southwest by the County lines and northwest by a line running southwesterly and parallel to the Sunbury County line from the most westerly angle of the City of Fredericton.

Communities

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

Demographics

See also

Notes
  1. The original boundaries of Fredericton, not the modern municipal boundaries.

References
  1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census New Maryland, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved October 8, 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 2 February 2021
  5. Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. pp. 250, 257.
  6. "13 Vic. c. 51 An Act to consolidate all the Laws now in force for the division of the Province into Counties, Towns and Parishes.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Mjaesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1850. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1850. pp. 142–152, 145–149. Book was poorly proofread, resulting in title typo and reuse of page numbers 145–152.
  7. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
  8. 2006 Statistics Canada Community Profile: New Maryland Parish, New Brunswick
  9. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: New Maryland Parish, New Brunswick



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