Parish in New Brunswick, Canada
Petersville is a
geographic parish in
Queens County ,
New Brunswick ,
Canada .
[2]
Prior to the
2023 governance reform , for governance purposes it was divided between
CFB Gagetown and the
local service districts of
Wirral-Enniskillen and the parish of Petersville.
[3] Wirral-Enniskillen was part of
Capital Region Service Commission (RSC11) and Petersville Parish was part of the
Fundy Regional Service Commission (FRSC).
[4]
Origin of name
William Francis Ganong states that the parish was named in honour of
Harry Peters , then
Speaker of the
House of Assembly .
[5] Peters' tenure as Speaker actually ended in 1827 but he continued to serve as MLA until 1843. Harry's brother
Charles Jeffery Peters was
Attorney General of New Brunswick when the parish was erected.
History
Petersville was erected in 1838 from
Gagetown and
Hampstead Parishes .
[6]
Much of the parish was expropriated in 1953 for the creation of CFB Gagetown.
Boundaries
Petersville Parish is bounded:
[2]
[7]
[8]
on the northeast and east within CFB Gagetown
[a] by a line beginning at the prolongation of the southwestern line of a grant to Thomas T. Hewlett at the corner of Lawfield and Kerr Roads in Summer Hill, then southwesterly following Lawfield Road to the westernmost corner of a grant to Henry Appleby, then southeasterly along the prolongation of the northeastern line of a grant to Sylvanus Haviland to its easternmost corner, then southwest to the Yorkshire Road, then along Yorkshire Road to the
Kings County line;
on the southeast by the Kings County line;
on the southwest by the
Charlotte County line;
on the northwest by the
Sunbury County line.
Communities
Communities at least partly within the parish.
[7]
[8]
[9] italics indicate a community expropriated for
CFB Gagetown
Armstrong Corner
Bayard
Blakely
Clarendon
Clones
Cootes Hill
Dunns Corner
Enniskillen
Ferris
Fowlers Corners
Headline
Loisville
Olinville
Petersville
South Clones
Summer Hill
Vincent
Welsford
West Jerusalem
Wirral
Wirral Station
Bodies of water
Bodies of water
[b] at least partly within the parish.
[7]
[8]
[9]
River George
West Branch Musquash River
Brittain Stream
Crystal Stream
Cunningham Creek
more than fifteen officially named lakes
Other notable places
Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish.
[7]
[8]
[9]
Demographics
Population
Population trend
[12]
[13]
[14]
Census
Population
Change (%)
2016
681
5.8%
2011
723
4.6%
2006
758
Language
Mother tongue (2016)
[14]
Language
Population
Pct (%)
English only
645
94.2%
French only
35
5.1%
Both English and French
0
0%
Other languages
5
0.7%
Access Routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:
[15]
Notes
^ Roads still appear on cadastral maps but not in highway mapbooks; because the old roads and grants are used in the Territorial Division Act they're used here.
^ Not including brooks, ponds or coves.
References
^
a
b
"Census Profile" . Statistics Canada . 26 October 2022. Retrieved 30 October 2022 .
^
a
b
"Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act" . Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 13 November 2020 .
^
"New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582)" . Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 19 July 2020 .
^
"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
^ Ganong, William F. (1896).
A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick . Royal Society of Canada. p. 261. Retrieved 17 March 2021 .
^ "1 Vic. c. 35 An Act to erect a part of the Parishes of Gagetown and Hampstead, in Queen's County, into a separate and distinct Town or Parish.".
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1838 .
Fredericton : Government of New Brunswick. 1838. p. 78. Retrieved 27 March 2021 .
^
a
b
c
d
"No. 138" . Provincial Archives of New Brunswick . Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 19 June 2021 . Remainder of parish on maps 147–149, 155, 156, and 163 at same site.
^
a
b
c
d
"428" (PDF) . Transportation and Infrastructure . Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 19 June 2021 . Remainder of parish on mapbooks 429, 443–445, 458–460, 471, and 472 at same site.
^
a
b
c
"Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)" . Government of Canada . Retrieved 7 July 2021 .
^
"New Brunswick Regulation 94-43 under the Fish and Wildlife Act (O.C. 94-231)" . Government of New Brunswick . 5 June 2006. Retrieved 8 July 2021 .
^
"Explore New Brunswick's Protected Natural Areas" . GeoNB . Retrieved 2 July 2021 .
^ Statistics Canada:
2001 ,
2006 census
^
2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Petersville Parish, New Brunswick
^
a
b
"Census Profile, 2016 Census: Petersville, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick" . Statistics Canada. Retrieved 27 September 2019 .
^ Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas
ISBN
978-1-55368-618-7
External links
Places adjacent to Petersville Parish, New Brunswick
45°32′15″N 66°21′24″W / 45.537618°N 66.356735°W / 45.537618; -66.356735 (Petersville Parish, New Brunswick )