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Parish in New Brunswick, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brunswick is a geographic parish in the northeastern corner of Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2]
Brunswick | |
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![]() Location within Queens County, New Brunswick. | |
Coordinates: 45.84°N 64.59°W | |
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County | Queens County |
Erected | 1816 |
Area | |
• Land | 703.20 km2 (271.51 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[1] | |
• Total | 224 |
• Density | 0.3/km2 (0.8/sq mi) |
• Change 2016-2021 | ![]() |
• Dwellings | 193 |
Time zone | UTC-4 (AST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-3 (ADT) |
Prior to the 2023 governance reform, for governance purposes it formed the local service district of the parish of Brunswick, which was a member of Kings Regional Service Commission (RSC8).[3][4]
The parish was probably named in honour of the Duke of Brunswick,[5] German military leader against Napoleon, killed at the Battle of Quatre-Bras the year before the parish's erection.
In 1786 New Brunswick chose to set up the province's system of counties and parishes as first Act of the legislation,[6] replacing the counties established the year before through a series of Letters Patent and the township system that was inherited from Nova Scotia in 1784. The eastern boundary of Queens County passed approximately through Coles Island and the Gaspereau Forks on the Salmon River but the rear lines of Waterborough and Wickham Parishes ran approximately through Hunters Home and Chipman, extending into Westmorland and Northumberland Counties.[7] The county line was moved eastward in 1787[8] by as much as 30 miles (48 km) in the north, created a large area that was not part of any parish; this area included large parts of Chipman and Waterborough Parishes in addition to most of modern Brunswick.
In 1816 this unassigned area was erected as Brunswick Parish;[9] because the county line hadn't been surveyed yet, any inhabitants of the New Canaan settlement were to belong to Brunswick Parish.
In 1835 part of Brunswick was included in the newly erected Chipman Parish.[10]
Brunswick Parish is bounded:[2][11][12][13]
Communities at least partly within the parish.[11][12][13] bold indicates an incorporated municipality
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Bodies of water[lower-alpha 2] at least partly within the parish.[11][12][13]
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Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish.[11][12][13][15]
Revised census figures based on the 2023 local governance reforms have not been released.
Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[19]
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