Brunswick Parish, New Brunswick

Brunswick is a geographic parish in the northeastern corner of Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada.
Prior to the 2023 governance reform, for governance purposes it formed the local service district of the parish of Brunswick, which was a member of Kings Regional Service Commission.

Origin of name

The parish was probably named in honour of the Duke of Brunswick, German military leader against Napoleon, killed at the Battle of Quatre-Bras the year before the parish's erection.

History

In 1786, New Brunswick chose to set up the province's system of counties and parishes as first Act of the legislation, replacing the counties established the year before through a series of Letters Patent and the township system that was inherited from Nova Scotia in 1784. The eastern boundary of Queens County passed approximately through Coles Island and the Gaspereau Forks on the Salmon River but the rear lines of Waterborough and Wickham Parishes ran approximately through Hunters Home and Chipman, extending into Westmorland and Northumberland Counties. The county line was moved eastward in 1787 by as much as in the north, created a large area that was not part of any parish; this area included large parts of Chipman and Waterborough Parishes in addition to most of modern Brunswick.
In 1816, this unassigned area was erected as Brunswick Parish; because the county line had not been surveyed yet, any inhabitants of the New Canaan settlement were to belong to Brunswick Parish.
In 1835, part of Brunswick was included in the newly erected Chipman Parish.

Boundaries

Brunswick Parish is bounded:

on the northeast east by the Kent County line;
on the east by the Westmorland County line;
on the southeast by the Kings County line;
on the west by a line running north-northwesterly from north of the end of Chittick Road in Marrtown, crossing the Canaan River east of Phillips Brook and striking the Waterborough Parish line about 2 kilometres northwest of Parks Lake;
on the northwest by a line running north 54º east from a point on the Saint John River about 1.8 kilometres southwest of the Route 715 bridge over McAlpines Brook.

Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish. bold indicates an incorporated municipality

Alward
Brookvale
Canaan Forks
Cherryvale
Forks Stream
Hunters Home
New Canaan

Bodies of water

Bodies of water at least partly within the parish.

Canaan River
Forks Stream
Long Creek
Cranberry Lake
Lake Stream Lake
Lower Lake
Parks Lake
Snowshoe Lake

Other notable places

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish.

Brookvale Protected Natural Area
Canaan Bog Protected Natural Area
Cranberry Lake Protected Natural Area

Demographics

Revised census figures based on the 2023 local governance reforms have not been released.

Population

Population trend

Census	Population	Change
2016	203	5.7%
2011	192	20.7%
2006	242	2.8%
2001	249

Language

Mother tongue

Language	Population	Pct
English only	180	87.8%
French only	20	9.8%
Both English and French	0	0%
Other languages	5	2.4%

Access Routes

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

Highways
*
Principal Routes
*
Secondary Routes:
*None
External Routes:
*None