Bright Parish, New Brunswick

Bright
Parish
Location within York County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 46°11′N67°06′W / 46.18°N 67.10°W / 46.18; -67.10
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	York
Erected	1869
Area [1]
• Land	403.73 km2 (155.88 sq mi)
Population  (2021) [1]
• Total	3,317
• Density	8.2/km2 (21/sq mi)
• Change 2016-2021	0.9%
• Dwellings	1,477
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)

Bright is a geographic parish in York County, New Brunswick, Canada. ^[2]

Prior to the 2023 governance reform, for governance purposes it was divided between the local service districts of Keswick Ridge and the parish of Bright, ^[3] both of which were members of Capital Region Service Commission (RSC11). ^[4]

Origin of name

The parish was named in honour of John Bright, recently appointed British President of the Board of Trade at the time. ^[5]

History

Bright was erected in 1869 from Douglas Parish. ^[6]

Boundaries

Bright Parish is bounded: ^{[2] [7] [8]}

• on the northeast and east by a line beginning on the Carleton County line about 1.5 kilometres northeasterly of Little Forks Brook, then running south 40º east ^{[lower-alpha 1]} to the mouth of Howard Brook, then down the Keswick River to the Saint John River;
• on the south and southeast by the Saint John River;
• on the southwest by the central line of a two-lot grant to Jonathan Williams, about 675 metres south of the mouth of Currie Brook, then running northwesterly along the Williams line and its prolongation to the Carleton County line at a point about 600 metres northeasterly of Route 104;
• on the northwest by Carleton County.

Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish. ^{[7] [8] [10]}

• Barton
• Brewers Mills
• Burtts Corner
• Cahill
• Central Hainesville
• Greenhill
• Hayne
• Howland Ridge
• Jewetts Mills
• Keswick Ridge
• Lower Hainesville
• Mactaquac
• McKeens Corner
• Middle Hainesville
• Morehouse Corner
• Scotch Settlement
• Sisson Settlement
• Tripp Settlement
• Upper Keswick
• Zealand

Bodies of water

Bodies of water ^{[lower-alpha 2]} at least partly within the parish. ^{[7] [8] [10]}

• Keswick River
• Saint John River
  • Glooscap Reach
• South Branch Becaguimec Stream
• Little Mactaquac Stream
• Mactaquac Stream
  • Mactaquac Stream Basin
• Nackawic Stream
• Alex Creek
• Mill Creek
• Mactaquac Lake
• more than a dozen other officially named lakes

Other notable places

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish. ^{[7] [8] [10] [11]}

• East Cloverdale Protected Natural Area
• Mactaquac Dam
• Mactaquac Provincial Park ^[12]
• Otter Brook Protected Natural Area
• Weyman Airpark

Demographics

Revised census figures based on the 2023 local governance reforms have not been released.

Population Population trend [13] [14] [15] [16] Census Population Change (%) 2016 3,289 7.2% 2011 3,068 2.9% 2006 3,159 6.8% 2001 2,958 0.2% 1996 2,964 4.0% 1991 2,849 N/A

Language Mother tongue (2016) [16] Language Population Pct (%) English only 3,090 94.1% French only 130 3.9% Other languages 55 1.7% Both English and French 10 0.3%

See also

• List of parishes in New Brunswick

Notes

1. By the magnet of 1869, when declination in the area was between 19º and 20º west of north. ^[9]
2. Not including brooks, ponds or coves.

References

1. "Census Profile". Statistics Canada. 26 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
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 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. 222. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
6. "32 Vic. c. 49 An Act to erect part of the Parish of Douglas, in the County of York, into a separate Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of April 1869. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1869. pp. 94–95. Available as a free ebook from Google Books.
7. "No. 102". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 25 June 2021. Remainder of parish on maps 103, 112, 113, 125, and 126 at same site.
8. "306" (PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 25 June 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 307, 325, 326, 347, 348, and 369 at same site.
9. "Historical Magnetic Declination". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
10. "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)". Government of Canada. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
11. "Explore New Brunswick's Protected Natural Areas". GeoNB. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
12. "New Brunswick Regulation 2017-46 under the Parks Act (O.C. 2017-293)" (PDF). The Royal Gazette. 175. Fredericton: Queen's Printer: 1496–1497. 13 December 2017. ISSN   1714-9428 . Retrieved 5 July 2021.
13. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
14. 2006 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Bright Parish, New Brunswick
15. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Bright Parish, New Brunswick
16. "Census Profile, 2016 Census Bright, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 8 October 2019.

External links

• York Rural Community Project

46°10′48″N67°06′00″W / 46.18000°N 67.10000°W / 46.18000; -67.10000 (Bright Parish, New Brunswick)