Hammond Parish, New Brunswick

Hammond
Parish
Location within Kings County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 45°50′N64°35′W / 45.84°N 64.59°W / 45.84; -64.59
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	Kings County
Erected	1858
Area [1]
• Land	244.24 km2 (94.30 sq mi)
Population  (2021) [1]
• Total	276
• Density	1.1/km2 (3/sq mi)
• Change 2016-2021	10.0%
• Dwellings	159
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)

Hammond is a geographic parish in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. ^[2]

Prior to the 2023 governance reform, it comprised a single local service district, which was a member of Kings Regional Service Commission (RSC8). ^[3]

Origin of name

The parish was named for the Hammond River, which in turn took its name from Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, former Governor of Nova Scotia, who received a land grant on the river in 1787. ^[4]

History

Hammond was erected in 1858 from the eastern part of Upham Parish. ^[5]

In 1875 the boundary with Sussex and Waterford Parishes was adjusted. ^[6]

Boundaries

Hammond Parish is bounded: ^{[2] [7] [8] [9]}

• on the north by a line beginning at a point 825 metres north of the western end of Cassidy Lake at the prolongation of the eastern line of a grant to Samuel Deforest southwest of the lake, then easterly in a direct line to the northeastern corner of a grant to William Thompson, about 450 metres south of the southern tip of Walton Lake and about 150 metres west of the Creek Road, then running south 88º east ^{[lower-alpha 1]} to a point on the Albert County line about 1.65 kilometres south-southeast from Route 114;
• on the east by the Albert County line;
• on the south by the Saint John County line;
• on the west by the eastern line of the Deforest grant, part of which runs along a straight stretch of Route 865, prolonged southerly to the Saint John County line and northerly to the starting point.

Governance

The entire parish forms the local service district of the parish of Hammond, established in 1968 to assess for fire protection. First aid and ambulance services were added to the assessment in 1972. Recreational facilities were added to the assessment in 1994, with first aid and ambulance services being removed at the same time.

Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish; ^{[7] [8] [9]}

• Devine Corner
• Hammondvale
• Hillsdale
• Londonderry
• Poodiac

Bodies of water

Bodies of water ^{[lower-alpha 2]} at least partly in the parish: ^{[7] [8] [9]}

• Big Salmon River
• Hammond River
• Little Salmon River
• Point Wolfe River
• Quiddy River
• Cassidy Lake
• more than a dozen other officially named lakes

Other notable places

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly in the parish. ^{[7] [8] [9] [11]}

• Fundy National Park
• McManus Hill Protected Natural Area
• Point Wolfe River Gorge Protected Natural Area
• Saddleback Brook Protected Natural Area

Demographics

Population Population trend [12] [13] [14] Census Population Change (%) 2016 251 14.9% 2011 295 13.0% 2006 339 17.3% 2001 289

Language Mother tongue (2016) [14] Language Population Pct (%) English only 245 98.0% French only 5 2.0% Both English and French 0 0% Other languages 0 0%

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits: ^[15]

Highways Route 111

Principal Routes None

Secondary Routes: Route 865

External Routes: None

See also

• List of parishes in New Brunswick

Notes

1. By the magnet of 1875, ^[6] when declination in the area was about 21º west of north. ^[10]
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. "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
4. Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 239. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
5. "21 Vic. c. 40 An Act to authorize the division of the Parish of Upham into two Parishes.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in March and April 1858. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1858. pp. 90–91. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
6. "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. Available as a free ebook from Google Books.
7. "No. 150". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 14 June 2021. Remainder of parish on maps 151 and 152 at same site.
8. "434" (PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 14 June 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 435, 448–450, and 463 at same site.
9. "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)". Government of Canada. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
10. "Historical Magnetic Declination". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
11. "Explore New Brunswick's Protected Natural Areas". GeoNB. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
12. Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
13. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Hammond Parish, New Brunswick
14. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Hammond, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
15. Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN   978-1-55368-618-7

45°34′34″N65°22′22″W / 45.576081°N 65.372772°W / 45.576081; -65.372772 (Hammond Parish, New Brunswick)