Waterford Parish, New Brunswick

Waterford
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	1874
Area [1]
• Land	221.27 km2 (85.43 sq mi)
Population  (2021) [1]
• Total	491
• Density	2.2/km2 (6/sq mi)
• Change 2016-2021	4.7%
• Dwellings	255
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)

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

Prior to the 2023 governance reform, for governance purposes it formed the local service district of the parish of Waterford, ^[3] which was a member of Kings Regional Service Commission (RSC8). ^[4]

The community of Waterford has an active outdoor ice rink (Waterford Youth Centre) as well as a Community Hall that hold events such as paint nights, Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, Easter parties and more. The area is known for its Skiing and Mountain Biking at Poley Mountain Resorts, hunting, fishing ATVing and other outdoor activities. Some local hotspots include: Friars Nose, Trout Creek Falls, Waterford Falls, Adairs Wilderness Lodge, Parlee Brook Amphitheatre Trail, Urney Covered Bridge and the Moores Mill Covered Bridge.

Origin of name

The parish was said locally to be named by Mr. A. McAfee, an Irish immigrant, for Waterford, Ireland. ^[5]

History

Waterford was erected in 1874 from Sussex Parish. ^[6]

In 1875 the boundary with Hammond Parish was altered. ^[7]

Boundaries

Waterford Parish is bounded: ^{[2] [8] [9] [10]}

• on the north by a line beginning on the Sussex Parish line at a point southeast of DeCourcey Lake and about 1.4 kilometres north-northwest of Trout Creek, then running east-northeasterly along the southern line of grants straddling Picadilly Road until it reaches the northeastern corner of a grant to David Law on the southern side of Law Road, then east-southeasterly to the northwestern line of a grant to Thomas Nicholson, on the eastern side of Morton Road west-southwesterly of Mechanic Lake, then east-northeasterly along the northern line of the Nicholson grant and its prolongation to the Albert County line;
• on the east by the Albert County line;
• on the south by a line beginning on the Albert County line at a point about 1.65 kilometres south-southeast from Route 114, then running north 88º west ^{[lower-alpha 1]} 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 westerly to a point about 825 metres north of the western end of Cassidy Lake in Upham Parish;
• on the west by a line running south ^{[lower-alpha 2]} from the mouth of Halfway Brook in Studholm Parish.

Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish. ^{[8] [9] [10]} italics indicate a name no longer in official use

Cedar Camp Chambers Settlement Donegal Long Settlement

Parlee Brook Urney Walker Settlement Waterford

Bodies of water

Bodies of water ^{[lower-alpha 3]} at least partly in the parish. ^{[8] [9] [10]}

Point Wolfe River Trout Creek Flood Lake Hamilton Lake Lair Lake

Mechanic Lake Pleasant Lake Victor Lake Walton Lake Wolfe Lake

Other notable places

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly in the parish. ^{[8] [9] [10] [13]}

• Fundy National Park
• McManus Hill Protected Natural Area
• Poley Mountain

Demographics

Population Population trend [14] [15] [16] Census Population Change (%) 2016 469 2.4% 2011 458 9.3% 2006 505 2.5% 2001 518 7.3% 1996 559

Language Mother tongue language (2016) [16] Language Population Pct (%) English only 455 96.8% French only 5 1.1% Both English and French 0 0% Other languages 10 2.1%

Access Routes

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

• Highways
  • Route 111
  • Route 114

Notable people

• Bessie Ella Hazen, painter, born in Waterford ^[18]

See also

• List of parishes in New Brunswick

Notes

1. By the magnet of 1875, ^[7] when declination in the area was about 21º west of north. ^[11]
2. By the magnet of 1795, ^[12] when declination in the area was between 15º and 16º west of north. ^[11]
3. 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 12 December 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. (1906). Additions and Corrections to Monographs on the Place-Nomenclature, Cartography, Historic Sites, Boundaries and Settlement-origins of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 53. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
6. "37 Vic. c. 42 An Act to erect separate Parishes out of part of the Parish of Sussex, in King's County.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Months of March & April 1874. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1874. pp. 119–121. Available as a free ebook from Google Books.
7. "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.
8. "No. 141". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 14 June 2021. Remainder of parish on maps 142, 151, and 152 at same site.
9. "415" (PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 14 June 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 416, 417, 433–435, and 449 at same site.
10. "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)". Government of Canada. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
11. "Historical Magnetic Declination". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
12. "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.
13. "Explore New Brunswick's Protected Natural Areas". GeoNB. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
14. Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
15. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Waterford Parish, New Brunswick
16. "Census Profile, 2016 Census Waterford, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
17. Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN   978-1-55368-618-7
18. Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-135-63882-5.

45°41′20″N65°22′21″W / 45.688854°N 65.372515°W / 45.688854; -65.372515 (Waterford Parish, New Brunswick)