Hopewell Parish, New Brunswick

Hopewell
Parish
Location within Albert County.
Coordinates: 45°49′N64°40′W / 45.81°N 64.66°W / 45.81; -64.66
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	Albert
Erected	1786
Government
• Type	unincorporated
Area [1]
• Land	149.14 km2 (57.58 sq mi)
Population  (2021) [1]
• Total	597
• Density	4.0/km2 (10/sq mi)
• Change 2016-2021	7.7%
• Dwellings	310
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)
Figures do not include portion within the village of Hillsborough

Hopewell is a geographic parish in eastern Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. ^[4]

For governance purposes, most of the parish is part of the village of Fundy Albert, ^[5] with the northwestern corner part of the Southeast rural district. ^[6]

Prior to the 2023 governance reform, the parish was divided between the village of Riverside-Albert ^[7] and the local service district of the parish of Hopewell. ^[8]

History

Hopewell parish originates in a 1765 one-hundred-thousand acre Cumberland County township grant within the British Colony of Nova Scotia, following " Le Grand Dérangement ". ^[9] The proprietors of the township may have named it for Hopewell, Pennsylvania, possibly the home of some of the settlers of the township. ^[10]

The bounds of the township grant were described as follows, "To begin due west form [ sic ] the point of land lying between the Memramcook and Petitcodiac on the west side of the Petitcodiac River and to extend from form [ sic ] thence west twenty miles and from thence south to the seacoast on the Channel of Chignecto…excepting the lands lying within the said limits excepting 200 acres of land granted to John Burbridge Esq." ^[9]

Hopewell was erected as a parish in Westmorland County in 1786 ^[11] when the province created its own system of counties and civil parishes. Unlike the rest of the province, Westmorland County's parishes did not have their boundaries explicitly described, instead stating only "to be bounded as in and by the several letters patent or grants of the said towns, under the great seal of the province of Nova Scotia". ^{[lower-alpha 1]}

Boundaries

Hopewell Parish is bounded: ^{[2] [12] [13]}

• on the north by the northern line of a grant to Robert Dixon and Jesse Converse on Shepody Bay and its prolongation inland to a point about 1.35 kilometres north of Lumsden Road, where Elgin, Harvey, Hillsborough and Hopewell Parishes meet;
• on the east and southeast by Shepody Bay;
• on the south by Shepody Bay and the Shepody River;
• on the west by a line running up Crooked Creek to the site of a former bridge across the creek, near the end of Mill Road in Riverside-Albert, then running north 22º west ^{[lower-alpha 2]} to the northern line.

Evolution of boundaries

The original parish boundaries included Harvey Parish and parts of Alma and Elgin Parishes.

In 1837 the county line between Saint John and Westmorland Counties shifted westward and the orphaned part of Saint John County was added to Hopewell. ^[18] The next year the western part of Hopewell was included in the newly erected Harvey Parish. ^[19]

In 1850 a consolidation of the legislation and amendments divinding the province into counties and parishes removed references to the pre-Loyalist townships from the boundaries of Albert County parishes. ^[20]

Municipality

Riverside-Albert is located in the southwestern corner of the parish, along the Shepody River between the mouths of Crooked Brook and Chapman Creek. ^[21]

Local service district

The local service district of the parish of Hopewell contained all of the parish outside Riverside-Albert. ^[22]

The LSD was established on 23 November 1966 to assess for fire protection following the abolition of county councils by the new Municipalities Act. First aid & ambulance services were added on 21 January 1976. ^[23]

In 2020, the LSD assesses for community & recreation services in addition to the basic LSD services of fire protection, police services, land use planning, emergency measures, and dog control. ^[24] The taxing authority was 616.00 Hopewell.

Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish. ^{[12] [13] [25]} bold indicates an incorporated municipality; italics indicate a name no longer in official use

• Cape Station
• Chemical Road
• Chester
• Curryville
• Demoiselle Creek
• Hopewell Cape
• Hopewell Hill
• Lower Cape
• McGinley's Corner
• Memel Settlement
• Mountville
• Riverside-Albert
• Shepody

Bodies of water

Bodies of water ^{[lower-alpha 3]} at least partly within the parish. ^{[12] [13] [25]}

• Petitcodiac River
• Shepody River
• Crooked Creek
• at least nine other named creeks
• Shepody Bay

Other notable places

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish. ^{[12] [13] [25]}

• Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park ^[26]

Demographics

Parish population total does not include Riverside-Albert

Population Historical population Year Pop. ±% 1991 798 —     1996 812 +1.8% 2001 786 −3.2% 2006 798 +1.5% 2011 643 −19.4% 2016 647 +0.6% [27] [28] [29] Language Mother tongue (2016) [29] Language Population Pct (%) English only 610 94.6% French only 15 2.3% Both English and French 5 0.8% Other languages 15 2.3%

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits: ^[30]

Highways Route 114

Principal Routes None

Secondary Routes:

External Routes: None

See also

• List of parishes in New Brunswick

Notes

1. Uses of long s changed to modern form for readability.
2. By the magnet of 1838, ^[14] when declination in the area was between 18º and 19º west of north. ^[15] The Territorial Division Act clause referring to magnetic direction bearings was later changed to the problematic wording "by the magnet of the year in which the County or Parish was erected", ^[16] which ignores lines changed after the erection of the county or parish, before being omitted in the 1952 ^[17] and 1973 Revised Statutes. ^[2]
3. 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 26 March 2023.
3. "Chapter I-13 Interpretation Act". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
4. The Territorial Division Act ^[2] divides the province into 152 parishes, the cities of Saint John and Fredericton, and one town of Grand Falls. The Interpretation Act ^[3] clarifies that parishes include any local government within their borders.
5. "Southeast Regional Service Commission: RSC 7". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
6. "Southeast Regional Service Commission: RD 7". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
7. "Municipalities Order - Municipalities Act". Government of New Brunswick. 25 June 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
8. "Local Service Districts Regulation - Municipalities Act". Government of New Brunswick. 25 June 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
9. Shoebottom, Bradley (February 2001). "The Wanderers: The Establishment of Hopewell Township". ResearchGate. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
10. Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 240. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
11. "26 Geo. III Chapter I. An Act for the better ascertaining and confirming the Boundaries of the several Counties within this Province, and for subdividing them into Towns or Parishes.". Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New-Brunswick, passed in the year 1786. Saint John, New Brunswick: Government of New Brunswick. 1786. pp. 3–12. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
12. "No. 132". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 2 June 2021. Remainder of parish on map 143 at same site.
13. "399" (PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 2 June 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 400, 401, 418, and 419 at same site.
14. "Chapter 2 The Division of the Province into Counties, Towns, and Parishes.". The Consolidated Statutes of New Brunswick. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1877. pp. 56–85. Available as a free ebook from Google Books.
15. "Historical Magnetic Declination". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
16. "59 Vic. c. 8 An Act to Revise and Codify an Act to Provide for the Division of the Province into Counties, Towns and Parishes.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of March, 1896. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1896. pp. 86–123. Available as a free ebook from Google Books.
17. "Chapter 227 Territorial Division Act". The Revised Statutes of New Brunswick 1952 Volume III. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1952. pp. 3725–3771.
18. "7 Wm. IV c. 35 An Act to establish a Boundary Line between the Counties of Westmorland and Saint John, and King's and Queen's Counties.". Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1837. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1837. pp. 91–92. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
19. "1 Vic. c. 23 An Act for erecting parts of the Towns or Parishes of Hopewell and Salisbury, in the County of Westmorland, into a separate 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. pp. 72–73. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
20. "13 Vic. c. 51 An Act to consolidate all the Laws now in force for the division of the Province into Counties, Towns and Parishes.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Mjaesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1850. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1850. pp. 142–152, 145–149. Retrieved 27 March 2021. Book was poorly proofread, resulting in title typo and reuse of page numbers 145–152.
21. "New Brunswick Regulation 85-6 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 85-45)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
22. "New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
23. "Regulation 76–17 under the Municipalities Act (O. C. 76–71)". The Royal Gazette. 134. Fredericton: 91. 28 January 1976.
24. "2020 Local Government Statistics for New Brunswick" (PDF). Department of Environment and Local Government. p. 55. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
25. "Canadian Geographical Names Database". Government of Canada. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
26. "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.
27. Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
28. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Hopewell Parish, New Brunswick
29. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Hopewell, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
30. Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN   978-1-55368-618-7