Shediac Parish, New Brunswick

Shediac is a civil parish in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2]

This article is about the parish. For the town, see Shediac.
Shediac

Shédiac
Parish
Location within Westmorland County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 46.19°N 64.60°W / 46.19; -64.60
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountyWestmorland County
Erected1827
Area
 • Land196.71 km2 (75.95 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total4,789
 • Density24.3/km2 (63/sq mi)
 • Pop 2011-2016
 2.6%
 • Dwellings
2,973
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes it is divided between the town of Shediac, the village of Cap-Pelé, the incorporated rural community of Beaubassin East;,[3] and the local service districts of Grande-Digue, Pointe-du-Chêne, Scoudouc, Scoudouc Road, Shediac Bridge-Shediac River, Shediac Cape, and the parish of Shediac.[4]

All governance units are members of the Southeast Regional Service Commission.[5]

Origin of name

The parish's name comes the community of Shediac, itself from a corruption of Mi'kmaq Es-ed-ei'-ik, translated by Rand as "running far back." There was a Fort Shediac mentioned in documents around 1755, on the mainland opposite Shediac Island.[6]

History

Shediac was erected in 1827 from Dorchester and Sackville Parishes.[7]

In 1894 the existing boundaries were declared retroactive to the parish's erection.[8]

In 1904 the boundary with Botsford Parish was clarified.[9]

Delineation

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

East by Botsford Parish, northeasterly by Northumberland Strait and the County line; south by Dorchester and Sackville Parishes, and west by the prolongation of the west line of the grant to Columb Connor on Shediac Road.[lower-alpha 1]
Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraphs (a) and (f), the dividing line between the Parishes of Botsford and Shediac shall be as follows: Beginning on the line separating the farms of the late Fidele LeBlanc (now called the Jude Boudreau farm) and lands formerly owned by Stephen Burk, where the said line crosses the main post road[lower-alpha 2] at Cap-Pelé, and following said farm line and its prolongations north four degrees and thirty minutes east by the magnet of the year nineteen hundred and three to the shore of Northumberland Strait, and also from said place of beginning south along said farm line and its prolongations four degrees and thirty minutes west to the Cumberland grant line.

Communities

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

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. Route 134
  2. Presumably Route 950

References
  1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Shediac, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  2. "Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  3. "New Brunswick Regulation 95-36 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 95-342)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  4. "New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  5. "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
  6. Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 271.
  7. "8 Geo. IV c. 13 An Act to erect the North-eastern part of the County of Westmoreland into a distinct Town or Parish, and also to authorize the appointment of Parish Officers at the November General Sessions in each year.". Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New-Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1827. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1827. pp. 28–30.
  8. "57 Vic. c. 36 An Act to amend Chapter 2 of the Consolidated Statutes, of 'The division of the Province into Counties, Towns and Parishes,' so far as relates to the County of Westmorland.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of April, 1894. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1894. pp. 162–163.
  9. "4 Edward 7 c. 13 An Act in amendment of the Act 59 Victoria, Chapter 8, intituled 'An Act to revise and codify An Act to provide for the division of the Province into Counties, Towns and Parishes.'". Acts of the Legislative Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of April, 1904. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1904. pp. 77–78.
  10. Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
  11. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Shediac Parish, New Brunswick
  12. Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7



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