Balmoral Parish, New Brunswick
Balmoral | |
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Coordinates: 47°41′51″N 66°33′27″W / 47.6975°N 66.5575°W | |
Country | Canada |
Province | New Brunswick |
County | Restigouche |
Erected | 1896 |
Area | |
• Land | 1,089.41 km2 (420.62 sq mi) |
Population (2016)[1] | |
• Total | 278 |
• Density | 0.3/km2 (0.8/sq mi) |
• Change 2011-2016 | 6.9% |
• Dwellings | 120 |
Time zone | UTC-4 (AST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-3 (ADT) |
Balmoral is a civil parish in Restigouche County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2]
For governance purposes it is divided between the villages of Atholville, New Brunswick,[3] Balmoral,[3] Charlo, and Eel River Crossing;[3] the Indian reserve of Moose Meadows 4; and the local service districts of Balmoral-St. Maure, Blair Athol, and the parish of Balmoral,[4][a] all of which except the Indian reserve are members of the Restigouche Regional Service Commission (RRSC).[6]
Origin of name[]
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.[7]
History[]
Balmoral was erected in 1896 from Dalhousie Parish.[8]
Boundaries[]
Balmoral Parish is bounded:[2][9][10][11]
- on the northwest and north by a line beginning at a point about 350 metres north of Route 275 and about 900 metres westerly of the junction of Val-d'Amour Road with Route 275, then running northeasterly along the northwestern edge of the Balmoral Settlement to its northeastern corner, then turning 90º and running about 250 metres southeasterly, then turning 90º and running to Route 275, then running easterly along the southern edge of grants along Route 280 then those along Route 11 to meet a line running true south from near the northern end of the Eel River Bar Seawall;
- on the east by the line running due south from the Eel River Bar Seawall to the Northumberland County line;
- on the south by the county line;
- on the west by a line beginning on the county line about 2.9 kilometres west of the Lower West Branch Portage Brook, then running true north to the starting point.
Communities[]
Communities at least partly within the parish.[9][10][11] bold indicates an incorporated municipality or Indian reserve
- Atholville
- Balmoral
- Selwood
- Upper Balmoral
- Blair Athol
- Charlo
- Eel River Crossing
- Macabee (Brassard)[b]
- Maltais (partly in Balmoral)
- Moose Meadows 4
- Ramsay Sheds
- Saint-Maure (partly in Balmoral)
- Simpsons Field
Bodies of water[]
Bodies of water[c] at least partly within the parish.[9][10][11]
- Charlo River
- Eel River
- Jacquet River
- Little Southeast Upsalquitch River
- Popelogan River
- Popelogan Lake Branch River
- South Charlo River
- Southeast Upsalquitch River
- more than twenty officially named lakes
Other notable places[]
Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish.[9][10][11][12]
- Budworm City airstrip
- Goulette Brook Protected Natural Area
- Mount Akroyd Protected Natural Area
- Portage Lakes Protected Natural Area
- White Meadows
Demographics[]
Parish population total does not include portions within Moose Meadows 4 or municipalities
Population[]
2016 | 2011 | |
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Population | 278 (+6.9% from 2011) | 602 (-2.7% from 2006) |
Land area | 1,089.41 km2 (420.62 sq mi) | 1,098.32 km2 (424.06 sq mi) |
Population density | 0.3/km2 (0.78/sq mi) | 0.5/km2 (1.3/sq mi) |
Median age | 45.8 (M: 47.2, F: 45.5) | 44.5 (M: 45.1, F: 42.6) |
Total private dwellings | 120 | 251 |
Median household income | $58,880 | $34,474 |
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Language[]
Canada Census Mother Tongue - Balmoral Parish, New Brunswick[17] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Census | Total | French
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English
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Other
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Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | |||||
2016
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280
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240 | 85.7% | 35 | 12.5% | 0 | 0% | 5 | 1.8% | |||||||||
2011
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605
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570 | 0.9% | 94.21% | 30 | 25.0% | 4.96% | 5 | 50.0% | 0.83% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | |||||
2006
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615
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565 | 4.6% | 91.87% | 40 | 60.0% | 6.50% | 10 | 60.0% | 1.63% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | |||||
2001
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575
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540 | 30.3% | 93.91% | 25 | 25.0% | 4.35% | 10 | 0.0% | 1.74% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | |||||
1996
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805
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775 | n/a | 96.27% | 20 | n/a | 2.48% | 10 | n/a | 1.24% | 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:[19]
See also[]
Notes[]
References[]
- ^ a b c "Census Profile, 2016 Census Balmoral, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
- ^ a b "Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
- ^ a b c "New Brunswick Regulation 85-6 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 85-45)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ "New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ "2019 Local Government Statistics for New Brunswick" (PDF). Department of Environment and Local Government. p. 62. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
- ^ "Communities in each of the 12 Regional Service Commissions (RSC) / Les communautés dans chacune des 12 Commissions de services régionaux (CSR)" (PDF), Government of New Brunswick, July 2017, retrieved 2 February 2021
- ^ Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 219. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ^ "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.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of March, 1896. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1896. pp. 86–123. Available as a free ebook from Google Books.
- ^ a b c d "No. 5". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 20 June 2021. Remainder of parish on maps 6, 13, 14, 25, 26, 38, and 39 at same site.
- ^ a b c d "002" (PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 20 June 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 003, 013–015, 027–029, 046–048, 066–068, 086–088, 106, and 107 at same site.
- ^ a b c d "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)". Government of Canada. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
- ^ "Explore New Brunswick's Protected Natural Areas". GeoNB. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
- ^ "2016 Community Profiles". 2016 Canadian Census. Statistics Canada. August 12, 2021. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
- ^ "2011 Community Profiles". 2011 Canadian Census. Statistics Canada. March 21, 2019. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
- ^ "2006 Community Profiles". 2006 Canadian Census. Statistics Canada. August 20, 2019.
- ^ "2001 Community Profiles". 2001 Canadian Census. Statistics Canada. July 18, 2021.
- ^ a b Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census
- ^ 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Balmoral Parish, New Brunswick
- ^ Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7 Pages 6, 14-15
External links[]
Coordinates: 47°41′51″N 66°33′27″W / 47.69750°N 66.55750°W
- Parishes of Restigouche County, New Brunswick
- Local service districts of Restigouche County, New Brunswick