Upham Parish, New Brunswick

Upham
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	1835
Area [1]
• Land	189.21 km2 (73.05 sq mi)
Population  (2021) [1]
• Total	1,357
• Density	7.2/km2 (19/sq mi)
• Change 2016-2021	6.9%
• Dwellings	586
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)

Upham 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 Upham, ^[3] which was a member of Kings Regional Service Commission (RSC8). ^[4]

Origin of name

The parish was probably named in honour of Joshua Upham, Loyalist military commander and later judge on the Supreme Court of New Brunswick. ^[5] Members of the Upham family settled in the area after Joshua's death. ^[6]

History

Upham was erected in 1835 from Hampton Parish. ^[7] It included Hammond Parish.

In 1858 Hammond was erected as its own parish. ^[8]

The parish's boundary was rewritten in 1897, ^[9] probably causing some change.

Boundaries

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

• on the north by a line beginning at a point about 300 metres east of the Cumberland Road and about 900 metres south of its junction with the Passekeag Road, then running generally northeasterly along the old Westmorland Road ^{[lower-alpha 1]} to a point about 75 metres south of Byrnes Brook and 300 metres east-northeasterly of the Byrne Road, then easterly to a point about 825 metres north of the western end of Cassidy Lake at the prolongation of the eastern line of a grant to Samuel Deforest;
• on the east by the prolongation of the eastern line of the Deforest grant, the grant line itself, which runs along a straight stretch of Route 865, and the southern prolongation of the grant line to the Saint John County line;
• on the south by the Saint John County line;
• on the west by a line beginning where the western line of a grant to Thomas Smith strikes the county line, west of the junction of Third Lake Road and Route 820, then running northwesterly to the rear of the Smith grant, east-northeasterly along the rear line of the grant and its prolongation to the northeastern corner of a grant to Robert Godfrey, about 825 metres south of an s-shaped meander of the Hammond River, then northerly along the eastern line of a grant to William Scoullar, including along the outside of the southern bend of the meander, to the end of the eastern line at the river, then upriver about 300 metres to the western line of a grant to J. C. Robertson, then north-northwesterly along the Robertson grant to its northeastern corner, then very slightly more northerly in a direct line through the northeastern corner of a grant to James Beyea to the starting point.

Governance

The entire parish formed the local service district of the parish of Upham, established in 1967 to assess for fire protection. Recreational and sports facilities were added in 2005. First aid and ambulance services (1976–2005) were formerly included.

Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish; ^{[10] [11] [12]} italics indicate a name no longer in official use

• Barnesville
• Bloomfield Ridge
• Clover Hill
• Salina
• Salt Springs
• Titus Mills
• Upham
• Upper Salt Springs
• Upperton

Bodies of water

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

• Hammond River
• South Stream

Demographics

Population Population trend [13] [14] [15] Census Population Change (%) 2016 1,269 2.8% 2011 1,306 3.1% 2006 1,267 1.1% 2001 1,303 2.8%

Language Mother tongue (2016) [15] Language Population Pct (%) English only 1,255 96.9% French only 30 2.3% Both English and French 5 0.4% Other languages 5 0.4%

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits: ^[16]

Highways none

Principal Routes Route 111

Secondary Routes: Route 820 Route 860 Route 865

External Routes: None

See also

• List of parishes in New Brunswick

Notes

1. The old Westmorland Road was discontinued so long ago that it does not appear on the province's cadastral grant maps.
2. Not including brooks, ponds or coves.

References

1. "Census Profile". Statistics Canada. 26 October 2022. Retrieved 30 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. 227. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
6. "Index to New Brunswick Land Grants, 1784 - 1997 (RS686)". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
7. "5 Wm. IV c. 33 An Act to erect the North Eastern part of the Parish of Hampton in King's County into a separate and distinct Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New-Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1835. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1835. p. 41. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
8. "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.
9. "60 Vic. c. 19 An Act to amend an Act intituled 'An Act to revise and codify an Act to provide for the Division of the Province into Counties, Towns and Parishes,' and to bettter [sic] define the bounds of the Parish of Upham.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of March, 1897. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1897. p. 50. Available as a free ebook from Google Books.
10. "No. 150". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 14 June 2021. Remainder of parish on maps 158 and 159 at same site.
11. "447" (PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 14 June 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 448, 462, and 463 at same site.
12. "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)". Government of Canada. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
13. Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
14. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Upham Parish, New Brunswick
15. "Census Profile, 2016 Census Upham, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
16. Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN   978-1-55368-618-7

45°30′47″N65°39′30″W / 45.513144°N 65.658331°W / 45.513144; -65.658331 (Upham Parish, New Brunswick)