Saint-Léonard Parish, New Brunswick

Saint-Léonard is a Canadian parish in Madawaska County, New Brunswick.[2]

Saint-Léonard

St. Leonard
Location within Madawaska County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 47.235°N 67.8°W / 47.235; -67.8
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountyMadawaska
Established1850
Area
  Land345.39 km2 (133.36 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
  Total975
  Density2.8/km2 (7/sq mi)
  Change
2011-2016
7.3%
  Dwellings
422
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
  Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

Delineation

Saint-Léonard Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act[3] as being bounded:

Bounded easterly by the Victoria County line; southwesterly by the St. John River and northwesterly by the following described line:
Beginning at a point in the International Boundary line where the same is intersected by the western prolongation of the south limit of lot No. 99, granted to Andrew Michaud; thence in an easterly direction along said prolongation and said limit of said lot, the eastern prolongation of same and the south limit of lot No. 281, granted to Rosomo Violette, and its eastern prolongation to a point in the eastern bank or shore of the Grand River;[lower-alpha 1] thence in a northerly direction along said bank or shore of said river to a point where the same is intersected by the west limit of lot No. 218, granted to Wm. Byram; thence in a southerly direction along said limit of said lot to the southwest angle of the same; thence in an easterly and southerly direction following the south limit of Tier One, south of the aforesaid Grand River, to the southeast angle of lot No. 272, granted to A. Dube; thence in an easterly direction along the division line between the Second Tract and the Fourth Tract West, granted to the New Brunswick Railway Company, and the eastern prolongation of same to a point in the aforesaid Victoria County line, including the Islands in front, but excepting therefrom the Parish of Saint-André.

Communities

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

Demographics

See also

Footnotes

  1. Now officially Grande Rivière.[4]

References

  1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Saint-Léonard, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
  2. "Saint-Léonard Parish". New Brunswick Provincial Archives.
  3. "Territorial Division Act (R.S.N.B. 1973, c. T-3)". Government of New Brunswick website. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  4. "Grand River (Grande Rivière)". Canadian Geographical Names. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  5. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
  6. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Saint-Léonard Parish, New Brunswick



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