Cardwell Parish, New Brunswick

Cardwell is a geographic parish in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada,^[4] located on the eastern border of the county.

Cardwell
Parish
Location within Kings County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 45.84°N 64.59°W / 45.84; -64.59
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	Kings County
Erected	1874
Area [1]
• Land	311.87 km2 (120.41 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[1]
• Total	1,401
• Density	4.5/km2 (12/sq mi)
• Change 2016-2021	3.5%
• Dwellings	721
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes, the parish is part of the Kings rural district,^[5] which is a member of the Kings Regional Service Commission.^[6]

Prior to the 2023 governance reform, it comprised a single local service district, which was a member of Kings Regional Service Commission (RSC8).^[7]

The Census subdivision of the same name shares the parish's boundaries.^[1]

Origin of name

The parish was named in honour of Viscount Cardwell, British Secretary of State for War^[8] until two months before the parish's erection.

History

Cardwell was erected in 1874 from Sussex Parish.^[9]

Boundaries

Cardwell Parish is bounded:^{[2][10][11][12]}

• on the northwest by a line beginning at the northeastern corner of a grant to Jacob Smith, about 975 metres north of the junction of Plumweseep Road and Back Road, then running north 66º east^[a] to the Westmorland County line;
• on the east by the Westmorland and Albert County lines;
• on the south by a line beginning on the Albert County line at a point on the prolongation of the north line of a grant to Thomas Nicholson on the eastern side of Morton Road, west-southwesterly of Mechanic Lake, then running west-southwesterly along the prolongation and the grant line to the northwestern corner of the grant, then north-northwesterly to the northeastern corner of a grant to David Law on the southern side of the Law Road, then west-southwesterly along grant lines south of the Picadilly Road to the Sussex Parish line, southeast of DeCourcey Lake;
• on the west by a line beginning at a point on the eastern line of a large grant to Elias Snyder, then running northerly along the grant line and its prolongation to the Kennebecasis River, then downstream about 300 metres past the Horton Road to the eastern line of the Jacob Smith grant, then northerly along the grant to the starting point.

Former local service district

The entire parish formed the local service district of the parish of Cardwell, established in 1968 to assess for fire protection. Recreational and sports facilities was added to the assessment in 2012. First aid and ambulance services were listed from 1972 until the description was rewritten in 2012.

Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish;^[10][11][12]

• Anagance
• Buckley Settlement
• Crockets Corner
• Dunsinane
• Five Points
• Harper Settlement
• Lindys
• McCully
• Mechanic Settlement
• Penobsquis
• Picadilly
• Portage Vale
• South Branch
• Springdale
• Upper Goshen

Bodies of water

Bodies of water^[b] at least partly in the parish:^[10][11][12]

• Anagance River
• Kennebecasis River
• South Branch
• Mechanic Lake

Other notable places

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly in the parish.^{[10][11][12][15]}

• Picadilly Mountain Protected Natural Area

Demographics

Revised census figures based on the 2023 local governance reforms have not been released.

Population Population trend[16][17] Census Population Change (%) 2016 1,353 4.3% 2011 1,414 4.4% 2006 1,479 7.0% 2001 1,382 2.8% 1996 1,422 6.4% 1991 1,337

Language Mother tongue (2016)[17] Language Population Pct (%) French only 40 2.9% English only 1,305 96.0% Both English and French 5 0.4% Other languages 10 0.7%

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:^[18]

Highways Route 1

Principal Routes Route 114

Secondary Routes: Route 895

External Routes: None

See also

• List of parishes in New Brunswick

Notes

1. By the magnet of 1840,^[13] when declination in the area was about 18º west of north.^[14]
2. Not including brooks, ponds or coves.

References

1. "Census Profile". Statistics Canada. 26 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
2. "Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
3. "Chapter I-13 Interpretation Act". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
4. The Territorial Division Act^[2] divides the province into 152 parishes, the cities of Saint John and Fredericton, and one town of Grand Falls. The Interpretation Act^[3] clarifies that parishes include any local government within their borders.
5. "Kings rural district: RD 8". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
6. "Regions Regulation – Regional Service Delivery Act". Government of New Brunswick. 21 July 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
7. "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
8. Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 225. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
9. "37 Vic. c. 42 An Act to erect separate Parishes out of part of the Parish of Sussex, in King's County.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Months of March & April 1874. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1874. pp. 119–121. Available as a free ebook from Google Books.
10. "No. 130". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 14 June 2021. Remainder of parish on maps 141 and 142 at same site.
11. "377" (PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 14 June 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 396, 397, 415–417, and 434 at same site.
12. "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)". Government of Canada. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
13. "3 Vic. c. 30 An Act for erecting a part of the Parish or Township of Sussex, in King's County, into a separate and distinct Parish or Township.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1840. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1840. pp. 14–15. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
14. "Historical Magnetic Declination". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
15. "Explore New Brunswick's Protected Natural Areas". GeoNB. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
16. Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
17. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Cardwell, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
18. Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7

45.78201°N 65.321875°W / 45.78201; -65.321875 (Cardwell Parish, New Brunswick)