Waterford Parish, New Brunswick

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

Waterford
Parish
Location within Kings County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 45.84°N 64.59°W
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	Kings County
Erected	1874
Area [1]
• Land	221.27 km^2 (85.43 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[1]
• Total	469
• Density	2.1/km^2 (5/sq mi)
• Change 2011-2016	2.4%
• Dwellings	260
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes it forms the local service district of the parish of Waterford,[3] which is a member of Regional Service Commission 8 (RSC8).[4]

Poley Mountain is located here.

Origin of name

The parish was said to be named after Waterford, Ireland at the suggestion of a local who considered it reminiscent of the road between his place and Sussex.[5]

History

Waterford was erected in 1874 from Sussex Parish.[6]

In 1875 the boundary with Hammond Parish was altered.[7]

Delineation

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

South by a line commencing at the southeast angle of Sussex Parish and running a direct course to the northeastern angle of lot fifty-five, granted to William Thompson aforesaid; thence south eighty-eight degrees east to the County of Albert; east by the County line; north by Cardwell Parish, and west by Sussex Parish.

Communities

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

Cedar Camp Chambers Settlement Donegal Parlee Brook

Urney Walker Settlement Waterford

Demographics

Population Population trend[8][9][1] Census Population Change (%) 2016 469 2.4% 2011 458 9.3% 2006 505 2.5% 2001 518 7.3% 1996 559

Language Mother tongue language (2016)[1] Language Population Pct (%) English only 455 96.8% French only 5 1.1% Both English and French 0 0% Other languages 10 2.1%

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[10]

Highways Route 111 Route 114

Principal Routes None

Secondary Routes: none

External Routes: None

Notable people

• Bessie Ella Hazen, painter, born in Waterford[11]

See also

• List of parishes in New Brunswick

References

1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census Waterford, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved September 21, 2019.
2. "Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
3. "New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 19 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. 279.
6. "37 Vic. c. 42 An Act to erect separate Parishes out of part of the Parish of Sussex, in King's County.". 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. 119–121.
7. "38 Vic. c. 114 An Act to establish the division line between the Parish of Hammond and the Parishes of Sussex and Waterford, in King's County.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of April 1875. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1875. pp. 388–389.
8. Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
9. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Waterford Parish, New Brunswick
10. Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7
11. Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.