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The Canadian province of New Brunswick is divided by the Territorial Division Act [1] into 152 geographic parishes, [a] units which had political significance as subdivisions of counties until the Municipalities Act of 1966. [b] Parishes still exist in law and include any municipality, rural community, or regional municipality within their ...
As the council worked on developing the original county lines, they desperately needed maps of the province, which, at the time, they seemingly lacked. As a result, they relied on two maps by Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres from 1780, the best candidates for a map of New Brunswick at the time. [11]
Perth Parish is bounded: [2] [12] [13] on the north by a line running true east from the northwestern corner of the Tobique 20 Indian reserve on the Saint John River;; on the east by the Royal Road, [a] starting about 14.5 kilometres inland and running southerly or south-southeasterly along a path passing west of Birch Ridge, through Red Rapids, to the Carleton County line north of Chapmanville;
Towns of New Brunswick; Name Municipal type ... Parishes of New Brunswick; Name County Population (2021) Population ... Perth: Victoria: 1,047 1,082 3.2 318.10
Administrative areas of New Brunswick map-blank.svg: Sémhur, 9 octobre 2011; derivative work: Dr Wilson--Dr Wilson (talk) 16:50, 14 October 2011 (UTC) Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Administrative areas of New Brunswick with First Nations lands map-7 sites -fr.svg
Location of New Brunswick in Canada Distribution of New Brunswick's 107 municipalities and rural communities by municipal status type, before 2023 reforms. New Brunswick is the eighth-most populous province in Canada, with 775,610 residents as of the 2021 census, and the third-smallest province by land area, at 71,248.50 km 2 (27,509.20 sq mi). [1]
In 1784 New Brunswick was created via the partitioning of the Colony of Nova Scotia and divided into the counties of NB, which were in turn divided into parishes.By the 1960s the province was a patchwork of incorporated cities, towns, villages, local improvement districts, [5] and local administrative commissions. [6]
The largest city by population in New Brunswick is Moncton with 79,470 residents, and the smallest is Campbellton with 7,049 residents. Campbellton is also the smallest city by land area, spanning 18.57 square kilometres (7.17 sq mi), while Saint John is the largest at 315.59 square kilometres (121.85 sq mi). [ 7 ]