Petersville Parish, New Brunswick Explained
| Petersville |
| Settlement Type: | Parish |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Established Title: | Erected |
| Established Date: | 1838 |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Land Km2: | 589.95 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 710 |
| Population Density Km2: | 1.2 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 4.3% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 323 |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Timezone Dst: | ADT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
Petersville is a geographic parish in Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2]
Prior to the 2023 governance reform, for governance purposes it was divided between CFB Gagetown and the local service districts of Wirral-Enniskillen and the parish of Petersville.[3] Wirral-Enniskillen was part of Capital Region Service Commission (RSC11) and Petersville Parish was part of the Fundy Regional Service Commission (FRSC).
Origin of name
William Francis Ganong states that the parish was named in honour of Harry Peters, then Speaker of the House of Assembly.[4] Peters' tenure as Speaker actually ended in 1827 but he continued to serve as MLA until 1843. Harry's brother Charles Jeffery Peters was Attorney General of New Brunswick when the parish was erected.
History
Petersville was erected in 1838 from Gagetown and Hampstead Parishes.[5]
Much of the parish was expropriated in 1953 for the creation of CFB Gagetown.
Boundaries
Petersville Parish is bounded:[2] [6] [7]
- on the northeast and east within CFB Gagetown[8] by a line beginning at the prolongation of the southwestern line of a grant to Thomas T. Hewlett at the corner of Lawfield and Kerr Roads in Summer Hill, then southwesterly following Lawfield Road to the westernmost corner of a grant to Henry Appleby, then southeasterly along the prolongation of the northeastern line of a grant to Sylvanus Haviland to its easternmost corner, then southwest to the Yorkshire Road, then along Yorkshire Road to the Kings County line;
- on the southeast by the Kings County line;
- on the southwest by the Charlotte County line;
- on the northwest by the Sunbury County line.
Communities
Communities at least partly within the parish.[9] italics indicate a community expropriated for CFB Gagetown
- Armstrong Corner
- Bayard
- Blakely
- Clarendon
- Clones
- Cootes Hill
- Dunns Corner
- Enniskillen
- Ferris
- Fowlers Corners
- Headline
- Loisville
- Olinville
- Petersville
- South Clones
- Summer Hill
- Vincent
- Welsford
- West Jerusalem
- Wirral
- Wirral Station
Bodies of water
Bodies of water[10] at least partly within the parish.
- River George
- West Branch Musquash River
- Brittain Stream
- Crystal Stream
- Cunningham Creek
- more than fifteen officially named lakes
Other notable places
Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish.
Demographics
Population
Population trend[13] [14]
| Census | Population | Change (%) |
|---|
| 2016 | 681 | 5.8% |
| 2011 | 723 | 4.6% |
| 2006 | 758 | |
| 2001 | | |
| 1996 | | 0.0% |
| 1991 | | N/A --> | |
Language
Mother tongue (2016)[14]
| Language | Population | Pct (%) |
|---|
| English only | 645 | 94.2% |
| French only | 35 | 5.1% |
| Both English and French | 0 | 0% |
| Other languages | 5 | 0.7% | |
Access Routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[15]
External links
45.5376°N -66.3567°W
Notes and References
- Web site: Census Profile . Statistics Canada . 30 October 2022 . 26 October 2022.
- Web site: Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act . Government of New Brunswick . 13 November 2020.
- Web site: New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582) . Government of New Brunswick . 19 July 2020.
- Book: Ganong . William F. . A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick . 1896 . Royal Society of Canada . 261 . 17 March 2021.
- Book: Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1838.. 27 March 2021. 1838. Government of New Brunswick. Fredericton. 78. 1 Vic. c. 35 An Act to erect a part of the Parishes of Gagetown and Hampstead, in Queen's County, into a separate and distinct Town or Parish..
- Web site: No. 138 . Provincial Archives of New Brunswick . Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development . 19 June 2021. Remainder of parish on maps 147–149, 155, 156, and 163 at same site.
- Web site: 428 . Transportation and Infrastructure . Government of New Brunswick . 19 June 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 429, 443–445, 458–460, 471, and 472 at same site.
- Roads still appear on cadastral maps but not in highway mapbooks; because the old roads and grants are used in the Territorial Division Act they're used here.
- Web site: Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB) . Government of Canada . 7 July 2021.
- Not including brooks, ponds or coves.
- Web site: New Brunswick Regulation 94-43 under the Fish and Wildlife Act (O.C. 94-231) . Government of New Brunswick . 8 July 2021 . 5 June 2006.
- Web site: Explore New Brunswick's Protected Natural Areas . GeoNB . 2 July 2021.
- Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
- Web site: Census Profile, 2016 Census: Petersville, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick ]. Statistics Canada . September 27, 2019.
- Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas
