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 UTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-3 (ADT)

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).

Bodies of water & Islands

This is a list of rivers, lakes, streams, creeks, marshes and Islands that are at least partially in this parish:

  • None

Demographics

Access Routes

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

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



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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