Saint-Quentin Parish, New Brunswick Explained
| Saint-Quentin |
| Other Name: | St. Quentin |
| Settlement Type: | Parish |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Established Title: | Erected |
| Established Date: | 1921 |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Land Km2: | 2,474.01 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 1,504 |
| Population Density Km2: | 0.6 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 1.8% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 688 |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Timezone Dst: | ADT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
| Coordinates: | 47.76°N -67.8425°W |
| Footnotes: | Figures do not include portion within the town of Saint-Quentin |
Saint-Quentin is a geographic parish in Restigouche County, New Brunswick, Canada.
For governance purposes it is divided between the town of Saint-Quentin,[2] the incorporated rural community of Kedgwick, and the Northwest rural district,[3] both members of the Northwest Rural Service Commission.[4]
Before the 2023 governance reform, the parish was divided between a much smaller town of Saint-Quentin and local service districts of St. Martin de Restigouche and the parish of Saint-Quentin.[5] In the reform, St. Martin de Restigouche was annexed by Saint-Quentin while the parish LSD was divided by the town, rural community, and rural district.
Origin of name
The parish was named for the Battle of St. Quentin, an Allied victory during the First World War.[6]
History
Saint-Quentin was erected in 1921 from Grimmer Parish.[7]
Boundaries
Saint-Quentin Parish is bounded:[8] [9]
- on the north by the Quebec provincial border;
- on the east by a line beginning on the Patapedia River at a point due north[10] of where the southern boundary of Grimmer Parish strikes the Restigouche River slightly upstream of the mouth of Seven Mile Brook, then running due south to Restigouche River, then running easterly along the prolongation of the southern line of a grant to Paul Berube on the eastern side of Route 17, about 3 kilometres north of Chemin 36 No. 1, the Berube grant, and the prolongation easterly to a point about 4.9 kilometres east of Range 9 & 10 Road, then south-southeasterly along a line running from the mouth of Upper Thorn Point Brook on the Restigouche through the former Intercolonial Railway station in Whites Brook and to the Victoria County line;
- on the southwest by the Victoria and Madawaska County lines;
- on the west by Quebec.
Communities
Communities at least partly within the parish.[11] bold indicates an incorporated municipality
Bodies of water
Bodies of water[12] at least partly within the parish.
Other notable places
Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish.[13]
- Bells Brook Protected Natural Area
- Belone Brook Protected Natural Area
- Big Cedar Brook Protected Natural Area
- Connors Brook Protected Natural Area
- Dionne Brook Protected Natural Area
- Eight Mile Brook Protected Natural Area
- Five Mile Brook Protected Natural Area
- Jardine Brook Protected Natural Area
- Kedgwick Wildlife Management Area[14]
- Little Cedar Brook Protected Natural Area
- MacFarlane Brook Protected Natural Area
- Moose Valley Hill Protected Natural Area
- Patapedia River Protected Natural Area
- Pollard Brook Protected Natural Area
- Quigley Brook Protected Natural Area
- South Kedgwick River Protected Natural Area
Demographics
Parish population total does not include the town of Saint-Quentin
Language
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Saint-Quentin Parish, New Brunswick |
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| Census | | Total | | | | | | | | |
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| Year | | Responses | | Count | Trend | Pop % | | Count | Trend | Pop % | | Count | Trend | Pop % | | Count | Trend | Pop % |
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| | | | 1,495 | | 98.4% | | 15 | | 1.0% | | 5 | | 0.3% | | 5 | | 0.3% |
| | | | 1,450 | 1.0% | 97.97% | | 20 | 71.4% | 1.35% | | 5 | n/a% | 0.34% | | 5 | 93.8% | 0.34% |
| | | | 1,435 | 6.2% | 90.54% | | 70 | n/a% | 4.42% | | 0 | 100.0% | 0.00% | | 80 | n/a% | 5.05% |
| | | | 1,530 | 1.0% | 99.35% | | 0 | 100.0% | 0.00% | | 10 | n/a% | 0.65% | | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% |
| | | | 1,515 | n/a | 0.00% | | 35 | n/a | 0.00% | | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | |
Access Routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[15]
See also
References
47.76°N -67.8425°W
Notes and References
- Web site: Census Profile . Statistics Canada . 30 October 2022 . 26 October 2022.
- Web site: Northwest Regional Service Commission: RSC 1 . Government of New Brunswick . 24 January 2023.
- Web site: Northwest Regional Service Commission: RD 1 . Government of New Brunswick . 24 January 2023.
- Web site: Regions Regulation – Regional Service Delivery Act . Government of New Brunswick . 24 January 2023 . 21 July 2022.
- Web site: Local Service Districts Regulation - Municipalities Act . Government of New Brunswick . 24 January 2023 . 25 June 2021.
- Web site: Saint-Quentin Parish . Provincial Archives of New Brunswick . 23 October 2020.
- Book: Acts of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick Passed in the Month of April 1921. 1921. Government of New Brunswick. Fredericton. 155–166. 11 Geo. V c. 18 An Act to Amend Chapter 2 of the Consolidated Statutes, 1903, respecting the division of the Province into Counties, Towns and Parishes..
- Web site: No. 1 . Provincial Archives of New Brunswick . Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development . 21 June 2021. Remainder of parish on maps 2, 3, 9–11, 21–23, and 36 at same site.
- Web site: 006 . Transportation and Infrastructure . Government of New Brunswick . 21 June 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 007–010, 019–023, 038–042, 059–062, 081–083, and 102–104 at same site.
- By an astronomic bearing.
- Web site: Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB) . Government of Canada . 21 June 2021.
- Not including brooks, ponds or coves.
- Web site: Explore New Brunswick's Protected Natural Areas . GeoNB . 2 July 2021.
- 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.
- Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas Pages 12-13
