Kingston Parish, New Brunswick

This article is about the geographic parish, former local service district, and rural census subdivision. For the community, see Kingston, New Brunswick.

Kingston
Parish
Location within Kings County, New Brunswick.
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	Kings County
Erected	1786
Area [1]
• Land	200.41 km2 (77.38 sq mi)
Population  (2021) [1]
• Total	3,202
• Density	16.0/km2 (41/sq mi)
• Change 2016-2021	9.9%
• Dwellings	1,631
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)

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

Prior to the 2023 governance reform, it formed the local service district of the parish of Kingston, ^[3] which was a member of the Fundy Regional Service Commission (FRSC). ^[4]

Origin of name

The parish's name may have been chosen as a symbol of loyalty to the Crown but was also a common name in the Thirteen Colonies. ^[5]

Notable is that the names of Kings County's pre-1800 parishes all occur in both New Jersey and North Carolina. ^[6]

History

Kingston was erected in 1786 as one of the original parishes of Kings County. ^[7] It included Greenwich Parish and parts of Hampton, Kars, and Norton Parishes but part of the modern parish along the Kennebecasis River was in Westfield Parish.

In 1795 Kings County's parishes were reorganised, erecting Hampton and Norton. ^[8]

In 1844 the boundary with Norton was altered. ^[9]

Boundaries

Kingston Parish is bounded: ^{[2] [10] [11] [12]}

• on the northwest by the Long Reach of the Saint John River and Belleisle Bay;
• on the east by a line beginning on the shore of Belleisle Bay at the end of the western line of the William Roden grant, nearly due north of the junction of Route 845 and Kiersteadville Road, ^{[lower-alpha 1]} then running south-southwesterly along the grant line to the rear of the grant, then southwesterly about 300 metres along the northern line of the Jeremiah Maybe grant to its northwestern corner, then southeasterly along its western line for about 1.2 kilometres, then turning left 90º and running northeasterly parallel to the rear line of the Belleisle Bay shore grants until it strikes Rogers Road, then southeasterly along the prolongation of the eastern line of the John & Peter Cable grant on the Kennebecasis River until it strikes the rear of the Cable grant, about 1.3 kilometres northeast of Route 845 and near the northern bank of Pickwauket Brook, then west-southwesterly along the rear of the Kennebecasis River grants, including a dogleg toward the river, until it reaches the northwestern corner of the Freedom Burdock grant, about 150 metres past the Ketchum Road, then southeasterly along the western line of the Burdock grant to the Kennebecasis River;
• on the southeast by the Kennebecasis River;
• on the southwest by the southwestern line of the Stephen Baxter grant on Milkish Creek, prolonged southeasterly to the Saint John County line in the Kennebecasis, then northwesterly about 2.7 kilometres along the Baxter grant until it strikes the prolongation of the main tier of grants on the Kennebecasis, then northeasterly along the rear of the tier until it strikes the prolongation of the line between two grants to Robert and Caleb Merrit on the Long Reach, then northwesterly along the prolongation and the grant line to the Long Reach;
• including Long Island and Mather Island in the Kennebecasis.

Governance

Before 2023, the entire parish formed the local service district of the parish of Kingston, established in 1968 to assess for fire protection. Non-fire related rescue was added in 2015. First aid and ambulance services (1976–2015) was formerly included.

Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish. ^{[10] [11] [12]}

• Bedford
• Centreton
• Chapel Grove
• Clifton Royal
• Elmhurst
• Erbs Cove
• Grays Mills
• Holderville
• Kingston
• Kingston Corner
• Long Reach
• Lower Kingston
• Moss Glen
• Perry Point
• Reeds Point
• Shampers
• The Cedars
• Waltons Lake
• Whitehead
• Whites Bluff
• Whites Mills

Bodies of water

Bodies of water ^{[lower-alpha 2]} at least partly in the parish. ^{[10] [11] [12]}

• Kennebecasis River
  • North Channel
• Saint John River
• Gorhams Creek
• Kingston Creek
• Salmon Creek
• Belleisle Bay
• at least twenty officially named lakes

Islands

Islands at least partly in the parish. ^{[10] [11] [12]}

• Long Island
• Mather Island

Demographics

Population Population trend [14] [15] [16] Census Population Change (%) 2016 2,913 1.3% 2011 2,952 2.2% 2006 2,888 2.5% 2001 2,817 0.0% 1996 0.0% 1991 N/A

Language Mother tongue (2016) [16] Language Population Pct (%) French only 70 2.4% English only 2,785 96.2% Both English and French 0 0% Other languages 40 1.4%

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits: ^[17]

Highways None

Principal Routes None

Secondary Routes: Route 845 Route 850

External Routes: None

See also

• List of parishes in New Brunswick

Notes

1. Although the community is spelt Keirsteadville, ^[13] the road is spelt Kiersteadville.
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 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. 243. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
6. "Domestic Names". U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
7. "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 20 March 2021.
8. "35 Geo. III c. 3 An Act in addition to an Act intitled, '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 1795. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1795. pp. 338–340. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
9. "7 Vic. c. 24 An Act to alter the Division Line between the Parishes of Kingston and Norton, in King's County.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1844. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1844. p. 24. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
10. "No. 149". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 14 June 2021. Remainder of parish on map 157 at same site.
11. "431" (PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 14 June 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 445, 446, 460, 461, and 473 at same site.
12. "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)". Government of Canada. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
13. "Keirsteadville". Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
14. Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
15. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Kingston Parish, New Brunswick
16. "Census Profile, 2016 Census Kingston, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
17. Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN   978-1-55368-618-7

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