Rogersville Parish, New Brunswick

Rogersville (originally Rogerville) is a civil parish in Northumberland County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2]

This article is about the parish. For the village, see Rogersville, New Brunswick.
Rogersville
Parish
Location within Northumberland County, New Brunswick
Coordinates: 46.775555°N 65.48°W / 46.775555; -65.48
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountyNorthumberland
Erected1881
Area
 • Land326.33 km2 (126.00 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total1,102
 • Density3.4/km2 (9/sq mi)
 • Change
2011-2016
 9.2%
 • Dwellings
543
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes it is divided between the village of Rogersville and the local service districts of Collette and the parish of Rogersville,[3] all of which are members of the Kent Regional Service Commission (KRSC).[4]

Origin of name

The parish was named in honour of James Rogers, then Bishop of Chatham.[5]

History

Rogersville was erected in 1881 from Nelson Parish.[6]

Delineation

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

Northwest by Nelson Parish; northeast by Glenelg Parish; southeast by the County line; and southwest by Blackville Parish.

Communities

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

Demographics

See also

References
  1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Rogersville, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved September 25, 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. 266.
  6. "44 Vic. c. 28 An Act to erect part of the Parish of Nelson, in the County of Northumberland, into a separate Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of March 1881. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1881. pp. 59–61.
  7. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
  8. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Rogersville Parish, New Brunswick



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