Saint Patrick Parish, New Brunswick Explained
| Saint Patrick |
| Other Name: | St. Patrick |
| Settlement Type: | Parish |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Established Title: | Erected |
| Established Date: | 1786 |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Land Km2: | 236.59 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 710 |
| Population Density Km2: | 3.0 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 3.0% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 408 |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Timezone Dst: | ADT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
Saint Patrick is a geographic parish in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada, located west of St. George and Saint Andrews.
For governance purposes, the southeastern corner around Digdeguash and Bethel is part of the incorporated rural community of Eastern Charlotte,[2] with the remainder belonging to the Southwest rural district,[3] both of which are members of the Southwest New Brunswick Service Commission.[4]
Prior to the 2023 governance reform, it comprised a single local service district (LSD), which was a member of the Southwest New Brunswick Service Commission (SNBSC).
The Census subdivision of the same name shares the parish's boundaries.[1]
Origin of name
Historian William F. Ganong believed the name suggested by other Saint names in the area.[5]
Five of the original six mainland parishes of Charlotte County used names of major saints recognised by the Church of England: Andrew (Scotland), David (Wales), George (England), Patrick (Ireland), and Stephen.
History
Saint Patrick was erected in 1786 as one of Charlotte County's original parishes,[6] including parts of Saint Croix Parish but not all of modern Saint Patrick.
Boundaries
Saint Patrick Parish is bounded:[7] [8]
- on the north by a line beginning about 300 metres southeast of the junction of Whittier Road, Birneys Lake Road, and Route 770, at the northwestern corner of a grant to Chas. Burns, then running east-northeasterly along the Burns grant and its prolongation to a point about 2.7 kilometres northeast of Bonny River Lake;
- on the east by a line beginning on the prolongation of the rear line of a grant to John Carson, northwest of Sherard Beach, then southerly along the prolongation, the Carson grant, and its prolongation the shore near the western end of Shore Road;
- on the south by Passamaquoddy Bay, Big Bay, and Birch Cove
- on the southwest by the southwestern line of a grant to Francis Welsh, then a line running from the western corner of the Welsh grant to the southwestern corner of a grant to Peter Sime, about midway between the South Glenelg Road and the Frye Road where it meets the southern end of Gibson Lake;
- on the west by a line running northerly along the Sime grant and its prolongation nearly to Route 1, then easterly about 150 metres, then northerly to Bonaparte Lake, then generally northerly along grant lines to Eastman Lake, northeasterly to Twin Lakes, then following the zigzagging western line of a 2500-acre grant to James Allanshaw to a point about 900 metres west of Doyle Lake, on the southernmost corner of a grant to John H. Armstrong;
- on the northwest by a line running northeasterly along the Armstrong grant to its eastern corner, about 1.1 kilometres past the Route 760 bridge over the North Branch Campbell Brook, then northwesterly along the northeastern line of the Armstrong grant and its prolongation to a point near the old railway, about 75 metres south of Wilson Road at the western corner of a grant to Jeremiah Sprague, then northeasterly along the Sprague grant to the Digdeguash River, then downstream about 300 metres to the northern line of a grant to John Strang, then northeasterly to the northern corner of the Strang grant, then southeasterly about 50 metres to the starting point;
- including Hardwood Island, Hospital Island, and any islands closer to shore.
Evolution of boundaries
The southern line of the Cape Ann Association grant in Saint David Parish was prolonged eastward to the Saint John County to provide the northern line of all parishes in the eastern part of Charlotte County; in Saint Patrick's case the line cut through McMinn and south of Birneys Lake. The eastern and southern lines were the same, while the western line ran from north of Libbey Lane straight to Mitchell Brook near Birch Cove, cutting through Saint Croix Parish and putting a strip of southwestern Saint Patrick in Saint Andrews Parish that would be inherited by Saint Croix Parish when it was erected.
In 1814 the parish was extended north to the county line.[9]
In 1856 the northern part of Saint Patrick was erected as Dumbarton Parish.[10]
In 1881 an area around Cathcart Road, Giles Road, and Armstrong Mill Road was transferred to Saint Croix Parish.[11]
In 1896 the southern part of the boundary with Saint Croix was moved west,[12] transferring the remainder of modern Saint Patrick.[13]
In 1958 the boundary with Saint Croix was altered to run entirely along grant lines, transferring small areas to Saint Croix.[14]
Local service district
The local service district of the parish of Saint Patrick comprised the entire parish.[15]
The LSD was established in 1970 to assess for fire protection.[16] First aid and ambulance services were added in 1975.[17]
In 2022, Saint Patrick assessed for only the basic LSD services of fire protection, police services, land use planning, emergency measures, and dog control.[18] The taxing authority was 516.00 Saint Patrick.
Communities
Communities at least partly within the parish.[19]
Bodies of water
Bodies of water[20] at least partly within the parish.
- Bocabec River
- Bonny River
- Digdeguash River
- Clarence Stream
- Big Bay
- Passamaquoddy Bay
- Digdeguash Basin
- more than twenty officially named lakes
Islands
Islands at least partly within the parish.
- Dicks Island
- Gird Island
- Hardwood Island
- Hog Island
- Hospital Island
- Long Island
- MacDougalls Island
Other notable places
Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish.[21]
- Caughey-Taylor Nature Preserve
- Caughey-Taylor Protected Natural Area
- Ovenhead Protected Natural Area
Demographics
Language
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Saint Patrick 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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| | | | 625 | 10.7% | 96.90% | | 15 | 0.0% | 2.33% | | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | | 5 | n/a% | 0.77% |
| | | | 700 | 7.9% | 97.90% | | 15 | n/a% | 2.10% | | 0 | 100.0% | 0.00% | | 0 | 100.0% | 0.00% |
| | | | 645 | 5.4% | 96.27% | | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | | 10 | n/a% | 1.49% | | 15 | 50.0% | 2.24% |
| | | | 610 | n/a | 95.31% | | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | | 30 | n/a | 4.69% | |
Access Routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[22]
See also
References
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Notes and References
- Web site: Census Profile . Statistics Canada . 30 October 2022 . 26 October 2022.
- Web site: Southwest Regional Service Commission: RSC 10 . Government of New Brunswick . 5 June 2023.
- Web site: Southwest Regional Service Commission: RD 10 . Government of New Brunswick . 5 June 2023.
- Web site: Regions Regulation – Regional Service Delivery Act . Government of New Brunswick . 5 June 2023 . 21 July 2022.
- Book: Ganong . William F. . A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick . 1896 . Royal Society of Canada . 270 . 17 March 2021.
- Book: Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New-Brunswick, passed in the year 1786.. 20 March 2021. 1786. Government of New Brunswick. Saint John, New Brunswick. 3–12. 26 Geo. III Chapter I. An Act for the better ascertaining and confirming the Boundaries of the several Counties within this Province, and for subdividing them into Towns or Parishes..
- Web site: No. 154 . Provincial Archives of New Brunswick . Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development . 4 July 2021. Remainder of parish on maps 161 and 162 at same site.
- Web site: 468 . Transportation and Infrastructure . Government of New Brunswick . 4 July 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 469, 479, 480, 489, and 490 at same site.
- Book: Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New-Brunswick; Passed in the Year 1814.. 27 March 2021. 1814. Government of New Brunswick. Saint John, New Brunswick. 15. 54 Geo. III c. 15 An Act to enlarge the limits of the Parishes of Saint Patrick and Saint George, in the County of Charlotte..
- Book: Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Months of March, April, and May 1856.. 27 March 2021. 1856. Government of New Brunswick. Fredericton. 42–43. 19 Vic. c. 25 An Act to erect the upper part of the Parish of Saint Patrick, in the County of Charlotte, into a separate Town or Parish..
- Book: Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of March 1881.. 1881. Government of New Brunswick. Fredericton. 66–67. 44 Vic. c. 31 An Act to alter the Boundary Lines of the Parish of Saint Croix, in the County of Charlotte.. Available as a free ebook from Google Books.
- Book: Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of March, 1896.. 1896. Government of New Brunswick. Fredericton. 86–123. 59 Vic. c. 8 An Act to Revise and Codify an Act to Provide for the Division of the Province into Counties, Towns and Parishes.. Available as a free ebook from Google Books.
- The new boundary line reads as if there was a clerical error replacing a reference to the old boundary with a reference to the eastern line of Saint David Parish in the north. The boundary certainly makes more sense if one assumes such an error.
- Book: Acts of the Legislature of New Brunswick Passed During the Session of 1958. 1958. Government of New Brunswick. Fredericton. 117–119. 7 Elizabeth II, 1958, c. 56 An Act to Amend the Territorial Division Act.
- Web site: New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582) . Government of New Brunswick . 9 February 2021.
- Regulation 70–63 under the Municipalities Act (O. C. 70–385) . The Royal Gazette . Fredericton . 17 June 1970 . 128 . 343–344.
- Regulation 75–4 under the Municipalities Act (O. C. 75–33) . The Royal Gazette . Fredericton . 29 January 1975 . 133 . 80.
- Web site: 2020 Local Government Statistics for New Brunswick . Department of Environment and Local Government . 55 . 9 February 2021.
- Web site: Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB) . Government of Canada . 4 July 2021.
- Not including brooks, ponds or coves.
- Web site: Explore New Brunswick's Protected Natural Areas . GeoNB . 4 July 2021.
- Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas Pages 4, 12
