Hopewell Parish, New Brunswick

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Hopewell
Parish
Location within Albert County.
Location within Albert County.
Coordinates: 45°49′N 64°40′W / 45.81°N 64.66°W / 45.81; -64.66Coordinates: 45°49′N 64°40′W / 45.81°N 64.66°W / 45.81; -64.66
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountyAlbert
Erected1786
Government
 • Typeunincorporated
Area
[1]
 • Land149.08 km2 (57.56 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total647
 • Density4.3/km2 (11/sq mi)
 • Change 2011-2016
Increase 0.6%
 • Dwellings
319
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

Hopewell is a civil parish in eastern Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2] It comprises one village and one local service district, both of which are members of the Southeast Regional Service Commission.[3] The Hopewell Rocks are the parish's best known feature.

The Census subdivision of the same name includes all of the parish except the village of Riverside-Albert.[1]

History[]

Hopewell parish originated in 1765 as a one-hundred-thousand acre Cumberland County township grant within the British Colony of Nova Scotia, following "Le Grand Dérangement".[4] The proprietors of the township may have named it for Hopewell, Pennsylvania, possibly the home of some of the settlers of the township.[5]

The bounds of the township grant were described as follows, "To begin due west form [sic] the point of land lying between the Memramcook and Petitcodiac on the west side of the Petitcodiac River and to extend from form [sic] thence west twenty miles and from thence south to the seacoast on the Channel of Chignecto…excepting the lands lying within the said limits excepting 200 acres of land granted to John Burbridge Esq."[4]

Hopewell was erected as a parish in Westmorland County in 1786[6] when the province created its own system of counties and civil parishes. Unlike the rest of the province, Westmorland County's parishes did not have their boundaries explicitly described, instead stating only "to be bounded as in and by the several letters patent or grants of the said towns, under the great seal of the province of Nova Scotia".[a] The original parish included Harvey Parish and parts of Alma and Elgin Parishes.

Boundaries[]

Hopewell Parish is bounded:[2][7][8]

  • on the north by the northern line of a grant to Robert Dixon and Jesse Converse on Shepody Bay and its prolongation inland to a point about 1.35 kilometres north of Lumsden Road, where Elgin, Harvey, Hillsborough and Hopewell Parishes meet;
  • on the east and southeast by Shepody Bay;
  • on the south by Shepody Bay and the Shepody River;
  • on the west by a line running up Crooked Creek to the site of a former bridge across the creek, near the end of Mill Road in Riverside-Albert, then running north 22º west[b] to the northern line.

Evolution of boundaries[]

The western line of Hopewell was probably near Owls Head rather than the modern boundary of Alma and Harvey Parish.[c]

In 1837 the county line between Saint John and Westmorland Counties shifted westward and the orphaned part of Saint John County was added to Hopewell.[16] The next year the western part of Hopewell was included in the newly erected Harvey Parish.[17]

In 1850 a consolidation of the legislation and amendments divinding the province into counties and parishes removed references to the pre-Loyalist townships from the boundaries of Albert County parishes.[18]

Municipality[]

Riverside-Albert is located in the southwestern corner of the parish, along the Shepody River between the mouths of Crooked Brook and Chapman Creek.[19]

Local service district[]

The local service district of the parish of Hopewell contains all of the parish outside Riverside-Albert.[20]

The LSD was established on 23 November 1966 to assess for fire protection following the abolition of county councils by the new Municipalities Act. First aid & ambulance services were added on 21 January 1976.[21]

Today the LSD assesses for community & recreation services in addition to the basic LSD services of fire protection, police services, land use planning, emergency measures, and dog control.[22] The taxing authority is 616.00 Hopewell.

Communities[]

Communities at least partly within the parish.[7][8][23] bold indicates an incorporated municipality; italics indicate a name no longer in official use

Bodies of water[]

Bodies of water[d] at least partly within the parish.[7][8][23]

Other notable places[]

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish.[7][8][23]

Demographics[]

Parish population total does not include Riverside-Albert

Access Routes[]

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[27]

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Uses of long s changed to modern form for readability.
  2. ^ By the magnet of 1838,[9] when declination in the area was between 18º and 19º west of north.[10] The Territorial Division Act clause referring to magnetic direction bearings was later changed to the problematic wording "by the magnet of the year in which the County or Parish was erected",[11] which ignores lines changed after the erection of the county or parish, before being omitted in the 1952[12] and 1973 Revised Statutes.[2]
  3. ^ William Francis Ganong's adaptation[13] of the 1780 map of region by Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres shows the boundary approximately at Owls Head and a grant to Hambleton Redpath at Owls Head[14] in 1831 gives the parish as Hopewell.[15]
  4. ^ Not including brooks, ponds or coves.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Hopewell, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  3. ^ "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 1 February 2021
  4. ^ a b Shoebottom, Bradley (February 2001). "The Wanderers: The Establishment of Hopewell Township". ResearchGate. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  5. ^ Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 240. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  6. ^ "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.". Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New-Brunswick, passed in the year 1786. Saint John, New Brunswick: Government of New Brunswick. 1786. pp. 3–12. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  7. ^ a b c d "No. 132". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 2 June 2021. Remainder of parish on map 143 at same site.
  8. ^ a b c d "399" (PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 2 June 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 400, 401, 418, and 419 at same site.
  9. ^ "Chapter 2 The Division of the Province into Counties, Towns, and Parishes.". The Consolidated Statutes of New Brunswick. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1877. pp. 56–85. Available as a free ebook from Google Books.
  10. ^ "Historical Magnetic Declination". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  11. ^ "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.
  12. ^ "Chapter 227 Territorial Division Act". The Revised Statutes of New Brunswick 1952 Volume III. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1952. pp. 3725–3771.
  13. ^ Ganong, William F. (1901). A Monograph of the Evolution of the Boundaries of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 430. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  14. ^ "Crown Grant Reference Map Viewer". GeoNB. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  15. ^ "Index to New Brunswick Land Grants, 1784 - 1997 (RS686)". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  16. ^ "7 Wm. IV c. 35 An Act to establish a Boundary Line between the Counties of Westmorland and Saint John, and King's and Queen's Counties.". Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1837. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1837. pp. 91–92. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  17. ^ "1 Vic. c. 23 An Act for erecting parts of the Towns or Parishes of Hopewell and Salisbury, in the County of Westmorland, into a separate Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1838. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1838. pp. 72–73. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  18. ^ "13 Vic. c. 51 An Act to consolidate all the Laws now in force for the division of the Province into Counties, Towns and Parishes.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Mjaesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1850. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1850. pp. 142–152, 145–149. Retrieved 27 March 2021. Book was poorly proofread, resulting in title typo and reuse of page numbers 145–152.
  19. ^ "New Brunswick Regulation 85-6 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 85-45)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  20. ^ "New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  21. ^ "Regulation 76–17 under the Municipalities Act (O. C. 76–71)". The Royal Gazette. Fredericton. 134: 91. 28 January 1976.
  22. ^ "2020 Local Government Statistics for New Brunswick" (PDF). Department of Environment and Local Government. p. 55. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  23. ^ a b c "Canadian Geographical Names Database". Government of Canada. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  24. ^ "New Brunswick Regulation 2017-46 under the Parks Act (O.C. 2017-293)" (PDF). The Royal Gazette. Fredericton: Queen's Printer. 175: 1496–1497. 13 December 2017. ISSN 1714-9428. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  25. ^ Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
  26. ^ 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Hopewell Parish, New Brunswick
  27. ^ Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7



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