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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 ...
The county lines were strategically drawn to align with the watersheds, a logical decision given that New Brunswick's settlements were developed along waterways. [13] Additionally, the counties were able to be divided into three groups: the Bay of Fundy, the Saint John River and the North Shore.
New Brunswick has 152 parishes, [52] of which 142 are recognized as census subdivisions by Statistics Canada and six as dissolved census subdivisions. [ 53 ] Parishes of New Brunswick
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]
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;
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 ]
This is a list of the seven census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. As defined by Statistics Canada as of the 2021 census, three entries in the list are identified as a census metropolitan area (CMA) and four as a census agglomeration (CA), with Campbellton's CA containing a portion of Quebec. [1]