North Lake Parish, New Brunswick

North Lake is a civil parish in York County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2]

North Lake
Parish
Location within York County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 45.8275°N 67.73°W
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	York
Erected	1879
Area [1]
• Land	440.03 km^2 (169.90 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[1]
• Total	233
• Density	0.5/km^2 (1/sq mi)
• Change 2011-16	4.1%
• Dwellings	387
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes it forms the local service district of the parish of North Lake,[3] which is a member of the Western Valley Regional Service Commission (WVRSC).[4]

Origin of name

The parish takes its name from the eponymous lake.[5]

History

North Lake was erected in 1879 from Canterbury Parish.[6]

Delineation

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

Easterly and southeasterly by Canterbury and McAdam Parishes; southwesterly and west by the International Boundary and north by the County line.

Communities

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

Forest City Fosterville Graham Corner Green Mountain

Maxwell North Lake Pemberton Ridge

Demographics

Population Population trend[7][8][1] Census Population Change (%) 2016 233 4.1% 2011 243 19.0% 2006 300 37.6% 2001 218 2.3% 1996 213 4.9% 1991 224 N/A

Language Mother tongue (2016)[1] Language Population Pct (%) English only 215 91.5% French only 5 2.1% Both English and French 0 0% Other languages 15 6.4%

See also

• List of parishes in New Brunswick

References

1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census North Lake, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved October 7, 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 25 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 1 February 2021
5. Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 258.
6. "42 Vic. c. 42 An Act to erect part of the Parish of Canterbury, in the County of York, into a separate Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of April 1879. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1879. pp. 84–85.
7. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census
8. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: North Lake Parish, New Brunswick