Wicklow Parish, New Brunswick

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

Wicklow
Parish
Location within Carleton County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 46°31′N67°37′W / 46.51°N 67.61°W / 46.51; -67.61
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	Carleton
Erected	1833
Area [1]
• Land	195.50 km2 (75.48 sq mi)
Population  (2021) [1]
• Total	1,591
• Density	8.1/km2 (21/sq mi)
• Change 2016-2021	6.2%
• Dwellings	678
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)
Figures do not include portions within the town of Florenceville-Bristol and the village of Centreville

Wicklow is a geographic parish in Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada, ^[2] forming the northwestern corner of Carleton County.

Prior to the 2023 governance reform, for governance purposes it was comprised a single local service district and parts of one town and one village, all of which were members of the Western Valley Regional Service Commission (WVRSC). ^[3]

The Census subdivision of Wicklow Parish includes all of the parish outside the two municipalities. ^[1]

Origin of name

The parish may have been named after the town of Wicklow or County Wicklow in Ireland. William Francis Ganong listed its origin as uncertain. ^[4]

History

Wicklow was erected in 1833 as part of the five-way split of Kent Parish. ^[5] The parish extended west to include part of Maine claimed by New Brunswick.

Boundaries

Wicklow Parish is bounded: ^{[2] [6] [7]}

• on the west by the international border;
• on the north by the River de Chute;
• on the east by the Saint John River;
• and on the south by southern line of a land grant at the mouth of Whitemarsh Brook and its prolongation to the international border.
• It also includes any islands in front of it in the Saint John River.

Evolution of boundaries

Wicklow's southern boundary originally paralleled the northern boundary of Woodstock Parish, running closer to due west than its present course. ^[5] The eastern boundary was the Saint John River.

In 1842 New Brunswick's land boundary with Maine was settled by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty, ending Wicklow's implicit claim to part of the state.

In 1850 the boundary within the Saint John River was altered, adding any islands in front of the parish to Wicklow. ^[8] The southern boundary was moved north more than a kilometre to the northern line of a three-lot grant to Henry M. Green, taking a strip of the parish that included the northern part of Centreville.

In 1870 the boundary with Simonds and Wilmot Parishes was moved south to start at its original point at the mouth of the Whitemarsh but then run westerly along the prolongation of the northern line of southernmost lot of the grant to Henry M. Green. ^[9]

Municipalities

The town of Florenceville-Bristol extends into a small area in the southeastern corner along Routes 110 and 130. ^[10]

The village of Centreville straddles the southern parish line along Route 110, Route 560, and Gregg Settlement Road. ^[10]

Local service district

The local service district of the parish of Wicklow comprised all of the parish outside the two municipalities. ^[11]

The LSD was established in 1966 to assess for fire protection. ^[12] Community services were added in 1967. ^[13]

In 2020, the LSD assessed for the basic LSD services of fire protection, police services, land use planning, emergency measures, and dog control. ^[14] The taxing authority was 216.00 Wicklow.

LSD advisory committee: Unknown.

Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish; ^{[6] [7] [15]} bold indicates an incorporated municipality

• Centreville
• Clearview
• Florenceville-Bristol
• Greenfield
• Gregg Settlement
• Hartley Settlement
• Knoxford
• Lamoreaux Corner
• Listerville
• Lower Greenfield
• Lower Royalton
• McGrath Corner
• McMonagle Corner
• Orchards Corner
• River de Chute
• Royalton
• Summerfield
• Thomas Corner
• Tracey Mills
• Tweedie
• Upper Knoxford
• Upper Royalton
• Upper Wicklow
• Wakem Corner
• Wicklow

Bodies of water

Bodies of water ^{[lower-alpha 1]} at least partly in the parish: ^{[6] [7] [15]}

• River de Chute
• Saint John River
• Big Presque Isle Stream
• Whitemarsh Creek
• Barrett Lake
• Carlisle Lakes
• Lawrence Lakes
• Leith Lake
• Reid Lake
• Round Lake
• Tweedie Lake

Islands

Islands at least partly in the parish: ^{[6] [7] [15]}

• Green Island

Other notable places

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly in the parish. ^{[6] [7] [15] [16]}

• Beechwood Dam
• Green Island Protected Natural Area
• River de Chute Protected Natural Area

Demographics

Parish population total does not include portions within Centreville and Florenceville-Bristol

Population Population trend [17] [18] [19] Census Population Change (%) 2016 1,697 2.4% 2011 1,738 0.9% 2006 1,753 7.0% 2001 1,885 2.9% 1996 1,942 0.7% 1991 1,928 N/A

Language Mother tongue (2016) [19] Language Population Pct (%) English only 1,625 95.9% French only 30 1.8% Other languages 35 2.0% Both English and French 5 0.3%

See also

• List of parishes in New Brunswick

Notes

1. 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. "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 1 February 2021
4. Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 280. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
5. "3 Wm. IV c. 17 An Act to divide the Parish of Kent, in the County of Carleton, into Five Towns or Parishes.". Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1833. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1833. pp. 114–115. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
6. "No. 81". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 27 June 2021. Remainder of parish on map 91 at same site.
7. "239" (PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 27 June 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 255, 256, 271, and 272 at same site.
8. "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.
9. "33 Vic. c. 10 An Act to alter the Division Line between the Parish of Wicklow and the Parishes of Simonds and Wilmot, in the County of Carleton.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick Passed in the Months of March & April 1870. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1870. p. 19. Available as a free ebook from Google Books.
10. "New Brunswick Regulation 85-6 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 85-45)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
11. "New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
12. "Regulation 66–41 under the Municipalities Act (O. C. 66–968)". The Royal Gazette. 124. Fredericton: 604–605. 21 December 1966.
13. "Regulation 67–130 under the Municipalities Act (O. C. 67–1196)". The Royal Gazette. 126. Fredericton: 10–11. 3 January 1968.
14. "2020 Local Government Statistics for New Brunswick" (PDF). Department of Environment and Local Government. p. 55. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
15. "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)". Government of Canada. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
16. "Explore New Brunswick's Protected Natural Areas". GeoNB. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
17. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
18. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Wicklow Parish, New Brunswick
19. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Wicklow, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 7 September 2019.

46°30′36″N67°36′36″W / 46.51000°N 67.61000°W / 46.51000; -67.61000 (Wicklow Parish, New Brunswick)