Petersville Parish, New Brunswick
Petersville is a Canadian parish in Queens County, New Brunswick.[2]
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![]() Location within Queens County, New Brunswick. | |
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County | Queens County |
Established | 1838 |
Area | |
• Land | 590.14 km2 (227.85 sq mi) |
Population (2016)[1] | |
• Total | 681 |
• Density | 1.2/km2 (3/sq mi) |
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• Dwellings | 325 |
Time zone | UTC-4 (AST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-3 (ADT) |
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).
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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
- Olinville Road
- Lawfield Road, within CFB Gagetown
References
- "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Petersville, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
- "Petersville Parish". New Brunswick Provincial Archives.
- "Territorial Division Act (R.S.N.B. 1973, c. T-3)". Government of New Brunswick website. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
- Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
- 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Petersville Parish, New Brunswick
- Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7
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