Rogersville, New Brunswick


Rogersville is a former village in Northumberland County, New Brunswick, built around the Intersection of New Brunswick Route 126 and New Brunswick Route 440. It was an incorporated village until the end of 2022 and is now part of the village of Nouvelle-Arcadie.
WWW rogersville.info

History

The village is named in honour of the Roman Catholic Bishop, the Most Reverend James Rogers, late Bishop of Chatham, New Brunswick. Rogersville is the home of two Trappist monasteries, Notre-Dame de l'Assomption Abbey and Notre Dame du Calvaire Abbey.
It is also the burial place of the man considered the Father of Modern Acadia— Monseigneur Marcel-Francois Richard, and the site of a monument containing his sarcophagus.
On 1 January 2023, Rogersville annexed all or part of seven local service districts to form the new village of Nouvelle-Arcadie. The community's name remains in official use.

Present day

It is served by Via Rail's train the Ocean which stops at the Rogersville railway station.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Rogersville had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.
Population trend
CensusPopulationChange
20161,1660.3%
20111,1700.4%
20061,1656.7%
20011,2486.6%
19961,336N/A

Income
Income typeBy CAD
Per capita income$23,440
Median Household Income$40,021
Median Family Income$56,832

Mother tongue
LanguagePopulationPct
French97090.2%
English908.4%
English and French151.4%
Other languages00%

Places of note

Border communities