Saint Marys Parish, New Brunswick

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

This article is about the parish in York County. For the parish in Kent County, see Sainte-Marie Parish, New Brunswick.
Saint Marys

Saint Mary's, St, Mary's, St. Marys
Parish
Location within York County, New Brunswick.
map incorrectly includes part of Fredericton in Saint Marys
Coordinates: 46.205°N 66.505°W / 46.205; -66.505
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountyYork
Erected1786
Area
 • Land752.68 km2 (290.61 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total4,837
 • Density6.4/km2 (17/sq mi)
 • Change
2011-2016
 2.2%
 • Dwellings
1,944
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes it is divided between the city of Fredericton[3] and the local service district of the parish of Saint Marys,[4] both of which are members of Regional Service Commission 11 (RSC11).[5] The LSD includes the special service areas of Evergreen Park and Pepper Creek.

Origin of name

The parish was settled in part by Loyalists from Maryland.[6]

St. Mary's County, Maryland was established well before the American Revolution and may have been the source of some of the Loyalists.

History

Saint Marys was erected in 1786 as one of York County's original parishes.[7] The parish ran thirty miles inland and extended to the Keswick River.

In 1824 part of Saint Marys was included in the newly erected Douglas Parish.[8]

In 1837 part of Saint Marys was included in the newly erected Stanley Parish.[9]

In 1838 Stanley was dissolved and its territory implicitly returned to its original parishes.[10]

In 1847 part of Saint Marys was included in a new, much larger Stanley Parish.[11]

In 1945 the town of Devon was annexed by Fredericton.[12] The boundary description of Saint Marys in the Territorial Division Act (TDA) implicitly removes the area from Saint Marys but the Fredericton entry in the TDA is not updated.

In 1952 two grants were transferred to Saint Marys from Douglas.[13] The boundary description of Fredericton was also updated, removing any ambiguity. The modern boundaries of Fredericton are not reflected in the TDA, having changed after the last revision of the Act.

Delineation

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

South by the City of Fredericton as now bounded;[lower-alpha 1] west by Stanley Parish and a line to commence at the most western angle of lot numbered thirty-one, letter D, in the Maryland Loyalists' grant; thence northeasterly along the upper line of said lot to the rear thereof; thence north forty-five degrees west to the east line of lot numbered one, granted to D. Sawyer; thence north to Stanley Parish; north by Stanley Parish, and southeast by the County line.

Communities

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

Bodies of water

Bodies of water at least partly in the parish

Demographics

See also

Notes
  1. The wording is a carryover from when the Act was originally written; the boundaries of Fredericton now take in part of the parish.

References
  1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Saint Marys, 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 85-6 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 85-45)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  4. "New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  5. "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
  6. Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 270.
  7. "26 Geo. III Chapter I. 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 1786. Saint John, New Brunswick: Government of New Brunswick. 1786. pp. 3–12.
  8. "5 Geo. IV c. 27 An Act for erecting a part of the Parishes of Saint Mary and Queensbury, in the County of York, into a separate and distinct Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New-Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1824. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1824. pp. 63–65.
  9. "7 Wm. IV c. 25 An Act for erecting a part of the Parishes of Saint Mary's and Douglas in the County of York, into a separate and distinct Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1837. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1837. pp. 82–83.
  10. "1 Vic. c. 34 An Act to repeal an Act, intituled 'An Act for erecting a part of the Parishes of Saint Mary's and Douglas in the County of York, 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 1838. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1838. pp. 77–78.
  11. "9 Vic. c. 38 An Act for erecting a part of the Parishes of Saint Mary's and Douglas, in the County of York, 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 1846. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1846. pp. 41–42.
  12. "9 Geo. VI c. 69 An Act to extend the Limits of the City of Fredericton to include the Town of Devon.". Acts of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick Passed During the Session of 1945. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1945. pp. 216–225.
  13. "Chapter 227 Territorial Division Act". The Revised Statutes of New Brunswick 1952 Volume III. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1952. pp. 3725–3771.
  14. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
  15. 2006 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Saint Marys Parish, New Brunswick
  16. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Saint Marys Parish, New Brunswick



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