| Balmoral | |
| Settlement Type: | Parish |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Restigouche |
| Established Title: | Erected |
| Established Date: | 1896 |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Land Km2: | 1,088.01 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 309 |
| Population Density Km2: | 0.3 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 11.2% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 131 |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Timezone Dst: | ADT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
| Coordinates: | 47.6975°N -66.5575°W |
| Footnotes: | Figures do not include the villages of Atholville, Balmoral, Charlo, and Eel River Crossing |
Balmoral is a geographic parish in Restigouche County, New Brunswick, Canada.
For governance purposes it is divided between the city of Campbellton, the town of Heron Bay, the village of Bois-Joli,[2] the Moose Meadows 4 Indian reserve, and the Restigouche rural district,[3] all of which are members of the Restigouche Regional Service Commission.[4]
Before the 2023 governance reform, along Route 275 beginning near the eastern parish line and running southwest to the western parish line were the village of Balmoral, the local service district of Blair Athol, and the village of Atholville, with the LSD of Balmoral-St. Maure along the southern boundary of Balmoral; small areas in the northeastern corner were part of the villages of Eel River Crossing and Charlo, and the remainder of the parish formed the LSD of the parish of Balmoral,[5] often called Balmoral-Maltais to distinguish it from Balmoral-St. Maure. The reform amalgamated Balmoral, Balmoral-St. Maure, Blair Athol, and parts of the parish LSD along the Boissonault, Drapeau and Saint-Maure Roads with Eel River Crossing and areas neighbouring it to form Bois-Joli; Campbellton annexed part of the parish LSD along the southern side of McAbbie Road, Heron Bay annexed two areas of the parish LSD along the eastern parish line, and the remainder of the parish LSD became part of the rural district.
The parish may have gotten its name from Balmoral Castle, Scotland, increasingly used by Queen Victoria at the time. William F. Ganong had no idea of its origin, noting only that there was a place of that name in Scotland.[6]
Balmoral was erected in 1896 from Dalhousie Parish.[7]
Balmoral Parish is bounded:[8] [9] [10]
Communities at least partly within the parish. bold indicates an incorporated municipality or Indian reserve
Bodies of water[12] at least partly within the parish.
Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish.[13]
Parish population total did not include portions within Moose Meadows 4 or former municipalities. Revised census figures based on the 2023 local governance reforms have not been released.
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Balmoral Parish, New Brunswick | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 260 | 8.3% | 85.2% | 50 | 42.9% | 16.4% | 5 | 500.0% | 1.64% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.00% | ||||||||
| 240 | 57.9% | 85.7% | 35 | 16.7% | 12.5% | 0 | 100.0% | 0% | 5 | 500.0% | 1.8% | ||||||||
| 570 | 0.9% | 94.21% | 30 | 25.0% | 4.96% | 5 | 50.0% | 0.83% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | ||||||||
| 565 | 4.6% | 91.87% | 40 | 60.0% | 6.50% | 10 | 60.0% | 1.63% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | ||||||||
| 540 | 30.3% | 93.91% | 25 | 25.0% | 4.35% | 10 | 0.0% | 1.74% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | ||||||||
| 775 | n/a | 96.27% | 20 | n/a | 2.48% | 10 | n/a | 1.24% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | ||||||||
Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[14]
