Petersville Parish, New Brunswick

Petersville
Parish

Location within Queens County, New Brunswick.
Country  Canada
Province  New Brunswick
County Queens County
Established 1838
Area[1]
 • Land 588.56 km2 (227.24 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
 • Total 723
 • Density 1.2/km2 (3/sq mi)
 • Pop 2006-2011 Decrease 4.6%
 • Dwellings 326
Time zone AST (UTC-4)
 • Summer (DST) ADT (UTC-3)

Petersville is a Canadian parish in Queens County, New Brunswick.[2]

History

Greenwich Parish erected from Hampstead Parish and Gagetown Parish in 1838: named for Henry Peters, speaker of the New Brunswick house of the Assembly.

Delineation

Petersville Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act[3] as being bounded:

Being all that part of the County southwest of a line beginning where the road from Jones’ mill[lower-alpha 1] crosses the County line; thence northerly along the said road to the northwest line of lot number one, granted to John Short; thence northeasterly along the same to the northeast line of lot number five, granted to Sylvanus Haviland; thence northwesterly along the same and its northwestern prolongation to the southeast line of lands granted to James Corbett; thence northeasterly along the same to the southwest line of the grant to Henry Appleby; thence northwesterly along the same to the Gagetown Road;[lower-alpha 2] thence northeasterly along the same to the northeast line of lot number twenty-five, granted to T.T. Hewlett, and thence northwesterly along the same and its northwestern prolongation to the Sunbury County line.

Communities

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

  • Bayard
  • Blagdon
  • Clarendon

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

Population

Population trend[4]

Census Population Change (%)
2011 N/A
2006 2053 Decrease3.7%
2001 2131 Increase0.0%
1996 Decrease0.0%
1991 N/A

Language

Mother tongue language (2006)[5]

Language Population Pct (%)
French only %
English only %
Both English and French 0 0.00%
Other languages 0 0.00%

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[6]

  • None
  • External Routes:
    • None

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Olinville Road
  2. ↑ Lawfield Road, within CFB Gagetown

References

  1. 1 2 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Petersville Parish, New Brunswick
  2. ↑ New Brunswick Provincial Archives - Petersville Parish
  3. ↑ "Territorial Division Act (R.S.N.B. 1973, c. T-3)". Government of New Brunswick website. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  4. ↑ Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
  5. ↑ Profile: Petersville Parish, New Brunswick
  6. ↑ Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7


 Blissville Parish Burton Parish Gagetown Parish
Clarendon Parish Hampstead Parish
   Petersville Parish  
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Coordinates: 45°32′15″N 66°21′24″W / 45.537618°N 66.356735°W / 45.537618; -66.356735 (Petersville Parish, New Brunswick)

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