Blissville Parish, New Brunswick

Blissville is a civil parish in Sunbury County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2]

Blissville
Parish
Location within Sunbury County, New Brunswick
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountySunbury County
Erected1835
Area
 • Land341.74 km2 (131.95 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total919
 • Density2.4/km2 (6/sq mi)
 • Change
2011-2016
 11.6%
 • Dwellings
378
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes it is divided between CFB Gagetown and the local service district of the parish of Blissville,[3] which is a member of Regional Service Commission 11 (RSC11).[4]

Origin of name

The parish was probably named in honour of John Murray Bliss,[5] senior justice of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick at the time the Act erecting the parish[6] was passed in 1834 but died before it became effective in January 1835.

History

Blissville was erected in 1835 from Burton and Lincoln Parishes.[6]

In 1874 Gladstone Parish was erected from the western part of Blissville.[7]

In 1896 the land boundary with Gladstone was completely altered, adding a large area to Blissville; the boundary with Burton was altered along the Nerepis Road.[8]

In 1949 the boundary with Burton was restored to its pre-1896 line.[9]

Delineation

Blissville Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act[2] as being bounded:

South and southeast by the County lines; northeast by Burton Parish, and west and northwest by a line beginning on the western bank or shore of the Oromocto River, where the dividing line between the Parishes of Blissville and Burton intersects the same, thence following the various courses of the said river up stream to the main forks; thence following the various courses of the south branch of the said river up stream to the northeast angle of lot thirteen, granted to Nathaniel Hubbard, about one mile above the forks; thence westerly along the northern line of said lot to the northwest angle thereof; thence southerly along the rear line of said lots fronting on western side of said south branch to the old Block House Road;[lower-alpha 1] and thence south sixty-seven degrees west to the Charlotte County line.

Communities

Parish population total does not include incorporated municipalities (in bold):

Bodies of water & Islands

This is a list of rivers, lakes, streams, creeks, marshes and Islands that are at least partially in this parish

Demographics

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[12]

See also

Notes
  1. Which does not appear on any modern maps.

References
  1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census Blissville, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  2. "Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  3. "New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  4. "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
  5. Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 221.
  6. "4 Wm. IV c. 42 An Act to erect a new Parish in the County of Sunbury.". Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1834. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1834. pp. 103–104.
  7. "37 Vic. c. 38 An Act to erect a part of the Parish of Blissville, in the County of Sunbury, into a separate Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Months of March & April 1874. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1874. pp. 112–113.
  8. "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.
  9. "13 Geo. VI c. 146 An Act to Amend Chapter 2 of the Revised Statutes, 1927, Respecting the Division of the Province into Counties Towns and Parishes, in so far as It Relates to the County of Sunbury.". Acts of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick Passed During the Session of 1949. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1949. p. 468.
  10. Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
  11. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Blissville Parish, New Brunswick
  12. Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7



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