Grand Falls Parish, New Brunswick

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Grand Falls
Parish
Location within Victoria County, New Brunswick. map shows pre-1913 boundaries
Location within Victoria County, New Brunswick.
map shows pre-1913 boundaries
Coordinates: 46°56′06″N 67°44′24″W / 46.935°N 67.74°W / 46.935; -67.74
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountyVictoria
Erected1853
Area
[1]
 • Land158.04 km2 (61.02 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total1,109
 • Density7.0/km2 (18/sq mi)
 • Change
2011-2016
Decrease 5.4%
 • Dwellings
506
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

Grand Falls is a civil parish in Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2] The legal name in French is Grand-Sault.[3]

For governance purposes it is divided between the town of Grand Falls and the local service district of the parish of Grand Falls,[4] both of which are members of the Northwest Regional Service Commission (NWRSC).[5]

The town of Grand Falls is treated separately from the parish in the Territorial Division Act,[2] the only instance of a municipality being separated from a parish. The town's modern municipal boundaries extend beyond its description in the TDA.[6]

Origin of name[]

The parish was named for the waterfall located in the modern town of Grand Falls.[7]

History[]

Grand Falls was erected in 1853 from all of Andover Parish north of the Aroostook River and all of Perth Parish north of a line due east from the northwest angle of the Tobique Indian Reserve.[8] The parish included all or most of Denmark, Drummond, and Lorne Parishes, as well as parts of Gordon and Saint-André Parishes.

In 1862 the boundary with Saint-Léonard Parish was altered.[9]

In 1864 part of Grand Falls was included in the newly erected Gordon Parish, which included Lorne Parish.[10]

In 1872 all of Grand Falls east of the Saint John River was erected as Drummond Parish.[11]

In 1913 Grand Falls Parish was legally separated from the town of Grand Falls.[12]

Boundaries[]

Grand Falls Parish is bounded:[2][13][14][15]

  • on the northeast and east by the Saint John River;
  • on the south by the Aroostook River;
  • on the west by the American border;
  • excluding Grand Falls Town.[a] Grand Falls Town has much smaller boundaries than the municipality of Grand Falls,[16] containing only the Town Plat of Colebrook, which has Everard H. Daigle Boulevard and Harley Hill Street as its northern and southern boundaries and extends almost as far west as the end of Nowlan Street, and the Stewart Grant, which goes north about twice the distance between Everard H. Daigle Boulevard and Avenue 5ième and extends as far back as the junction of Caswell and Coldbrook Streets.

Communities[]

Bodies of water[]

Bodies of water[b] at least partly in the parish:[13][14][15]

Demographics[]

Parish population total does not include portion within Grand Falls

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ This is the only instance in the Territorial Division Act where a town is legally separate from its parish.
  2. ^ Not including brooks, ponds or coves.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Grand Falls, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Chapitre T-3: Loi sur la division territoriale" (in French). Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  4. ^ "New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  5. ^ "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
  6. ^ "Regulation 85-6 under the Municipalities Act (O. C. 85-45)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  7. ^ Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. pp. 236–237. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  8. ^ "15 Vic. c. 35 An Act to erect part of the Parish of Andover, the County of Victoria, into a separate Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1852. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1852. p. 55. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  9. ^ "25 Vic. c. 46 An Act to alter the Boundary Line between the Parishes of Grand Falls and Saint Leonard, in the County of Victoria.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in March and April 1862. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1862. p. 117. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  10. ^ "26 Vic. c. 44 An Act to erect parts of the Parishes of Grand Falls, Perth, and Saint Leonard, in the County of Victoria, into a separate Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Month of April, 1863. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1863. p. 101. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  11. ^ "35 Vic. c. 34 An Act to erect part of the Parish of Grand Falls in the County of Victoria, into a separate Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of April 1872. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1872. pp. 67–68. Available as a free ebook from Google Books.
  12. ^ "2 Geo. V c. 4 An Act to amend Chapter 2 of the Consolidated Statutes, 1903, respecting the division of the province into counties, towns and parishes, so far as relates to the County of Victoria.". New Brunswick Acts of the Legislative Assembly Passed in the Months of March and April, 1912. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1912. pp. 22–24.
  13. ^ Jump up to: a b "No. 54". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 23 June 2021. Remainder of parish on maps 63 and 72 at same site.
  14. ^ Jump up to: a b "178" (PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 23 June 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 193, 208, and 223 at same site.
  15. ^ Jump up to: a b "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)". Government of Canada. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  16. ^ "New Brunswick Regulation 85-6 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 85-45)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  17. ^ Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
  18. ^ 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Grand Falls Parish, New Brunswick



Coordinates: 46°56′06″N 67°44′24″W / 46.93500°N 67.74000°W / 46.93500; -67.74000 (Grand Falls Parish, New Brunswick)

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