Lincoln Parish, New Brunswick

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

This article is about the parish. For the community, see Lincoln, New Brunswick.
Lincoln
Parish
Location within Sunbury County, New Brunswick
Coordinates: 45.8975°N 66.57°W / 45.8975; -66.57
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountySunbury
Erected1786
Area
 • Land159.59 km2 (61.62 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total7,177
 • Density45.0/km2 (117/sq mi)
 • Pop 2011-2016
 11.1%
 • Dwellings
3,019
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes it is divided between the city of Fredericton and the local service districts of Rusagonis-Waasis and the parish of Lincoln,[3] all of which are members of Regional Service Commission 11 (RSC11).[4]

Origin of name

The parish may have been named for its proximity to York County, as the traditional English counties of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire shared a border.[5]

History

Lincoln was erected in 1786 as one of Sunbury County's original parishes.[6] It extended to Charlotte County and included most of Gladstone Parish.

In 1835 the rear of the parish was included in the newly erected Blissville Parish.[7]

Delineation

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

Northwest by the County line; northeast by the Saint John River; southeast by the Oromocto River; and southwest by a line running north sixty-six degrees west from the most southern point of Geary Block, including Thatch Island.

Communities

Bodies of water

Bodies of water at least partly in the parish

  • Saint John River

Demographics

See also

References
  1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Lincoln, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved September 1, 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. 245.
  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.
  7. "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.
  8. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
  9. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Lincoln Parish, New Brunswick



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