Burton Parish, New Brunswick

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

This article is about the parish. For the community, see Burton, New Brunswick.
Burton
Parish
Location within Sunbury County, New Brunswick
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountySunbury County
Erected1786
Area
 • Land259.10 km2 (100.04 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total5,119
 • Density19.8/km2 (51/sq mi)
 • Change
2011-2016
 5.6%
 • Dwellings
2,020
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes it is divided between the town of Oromocto, the Indian reserve of Oromocto 26, CFB Gagetown, and the local service district of the parish of Burton.[3] The town and LSD are both members of Regional Service Commission 11 (RSC11).[4]

Origin of name

The parish was named in honour of Ralph Burton, military commander-in-chief in Montreal at the time of its establishment as a township.[5]

History

Burton was first established in 1765 as a Nova Scotia township.[6]

Burton was erected in 1786 as one of the original parishes of Sunbury County.[7] The parish extended further inland than the township.[8]

In 1835 the rear of the parish was included in the newly erected Blissville Parish.[9]

In 1896 the boundary with Blissville was altered along the Nerepis Road.[10]

In 1949 the boundary with Blissville was changed back to its pre-1896 course.[11]

Delineation

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

Southeast by the County line; southwest by the prolongation southeasterly of the southwest line of Lincoln Parish to the Queens County line; northwest by the Oromocto River and northeast by the Saint John River, including Gilbert and Ox Islands.

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:[14]

See also

References
  1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Burton, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved September 29, 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. 223.
  6. Ganong, William F. (1899). A Monograph of Historic Sites in the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 333.
  7. "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.
  8. Ganong, Place-Nomenclature, page 431
  9. "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.
  10. "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.
  11. "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.
  12. Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
  13. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Burton Parish, New Brunswick
  14. Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7



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