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Kingston Parish, New Brunswick
Kingston is a List of parishes in New Brunswick, civil parish in Kings County, New Brunswick, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. Prior to the 2023 New Brunswick local governance reform, 2023 governance reform, it comprised formed the Local service district (New Brunswick), local service district of the parish of Kingston, which was a member of the Regional Service Commission#Fundy Regional Service Commission, Fundy Regional Service Commission (FRSC). Origin of name The parish's name may have been chosen as a symbol of loyalty to the Crown but was also a common name in the Thirteen Colonies. Notable is that the names of Kings County's pre-1800 parishes all occur in both New Jersey and North Carolina. History Kingston was erected in 1786 as one of the original parishes of Kings County. It included Greenwich Parish, New Brunswick, Greenwich Parish and parts of Hampton Parish, New Brunswick, Hampton, Kars Parish, New Brunswick, Kars, and Norton Parish, New Brunswick, Norton Pa ...
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List Of Parishes In New Brunswick
The Canadian province of New Brunswick is divided by the ''Territorial Division Act'' into 152 parishes, units which had political significance as subdivisions of counties until the Municipalities Act of 1966. Parishes still exist in law and include any municipality, rural community, or regional municipality within their borders. They provided convenient boundaries for electoral districts and organising delivery of government services for some time after 1966 but were gradually supplanted for such purposes by local service districts (LSDs), which better represent communities of interest. Local governance reforms scheduled for 1 January 2023 will abolish the local service district as a unit of governance but this will not affect the existence of civil parishes. Parishes are still usedAs of July 2021, by more than a dozen Acts and more than fifty Regulations. to describe legal boundaries for health administration judicial matters, agricultural boards, and some other entities; highwa ...
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Kars Parish, New Brunswick
Kars is a civil parish in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes it forms the local service district of the parish of Kars, which is a member of Regional Service Commission 8 (RSC8). Origin of name The parish was named for the Siege of Kars, last major operation of the Crimean War. History Kars was erected in 1860 from Greenwich and Springfield Parishes. In 1877 the islands in Belleisle Bay were added to Kars. Boundaries Kars Parish is bounded: Remainder of parish on map 149 at same site. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 431, 445, and 446 at same site. *on the northwest by the Queens County line; *on the east by the eastern line of three grants, beginning on the county line about 900 metres northeast of the ends of Bond Road and McCrea Road, then running southeasterly, with two short doglegs, past Vail Road to strike Belleisle Bay about 450 metres east of the eastern end of Coreyvale Road; *on the south by Belleisle Bay; *on the west by the Saint ...
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Kingston, New Brunswick
Kingston is a Canadian community in Kings County, New Brunswick. The village centre is located at the intersection of New Brunswick Routes 845 and 850. The square features a school, church, and a general store built in 1788. The MacDonald Consolidated School also houses a museum. There is also a popular farmers market in Kingston which draws buyers from such areas as Quispamsis and Rothesay, New Brunswick. History Located on the Kingston Peninsula, the village was settled in 1783 by Loyalists at the conclusion of the American Revolution. The Kings County Gaol was once located in the community but it was moved to nearby Hampton one stone at a time. The famous horse thief Henry More Smith once escaped from the jail. See also * Royal eponyms in Canada * Ministers Face - local cliff face Notable people {{Main, List of people from New Brunswick See also *List of communities in New Brunswick This is a list of communities in New Brunswick, a province in Canada. For the pur ...
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Clifton Royal, New Brunswick
Clifton Royal is a rural community in Kings County New Brunswick, Canada. It is connected to Quispamsis via the Gondola Point Ferry The Gondola Point Ferry is a cable ferry in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The ferry crosses the Kennebecasis River, linking Gondola Point in Quispamsis on the southern bank, to Reeds Point on the Kingston Peninsula. The ferry carries N .... History Notable people See also * List of communities in New Brunswick References Communities in Kings County, New Brunswick {{NewBrunswick-geo-stub ...
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Chapel Grove, New Brunswick
Chapel Grove is a Canadian rural community in Kings County, New Brunswick. It is adjacent to Summerville and lies south of Clifton Royal on the Kingston Peninsula on the northwest bank of the Kennebecasis River opposite the towns of Quispamsis and Rothesay. The community is served by New Brunswick Route 845. The community is framed by steep hills directly west of Long Island. Among Chapel Grove's earliest European settlers were United Empire Loyalists who were granted farmsteads in the area for their loyalty to the British cause. Most of these farms are now overgrown by dense forest. The rural site developed in the early twentieth century as a summer retreat for residents of Saint John, New Brunswick. The community derives its name from St Bridget's Catholic Church, situated in a grove of cedar trees. St. Bridget's mission church built between 1872 and 1873 was served by the Redemptorist order of priests from St. Peter's parish in Saint John from 1887 to 2006, and is now se ...
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Long Island (Kings County)
Long Island is an island in the Kennebecasis River near Rothesay, New Brunswick Rothesay () is a town located in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. It is adjacent to the City of Saint John along the Kennebecasis River. Geography Located along the lower Kennebecasis River valley, Rothesay borders the city of Saint John .... The island is accessible by boat during warm months and by crossing the ice in the winter. Nature Preserves The island contains two nature preserves: Minister's Face Nature Preserve and Rayworth Beach Nature Preserve. References River islands of New Brunswick {{NewBrunswick-geo-stub ...
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Saint John County, New Brunswick
Saint John County (2016 population: 74,020) is located in southern New Brunswick, Canada. The city of Saint John dominates the county. Elsewhere in the county, tourism is focused around the Bay of Fundy. Census subdivisions Communities There are two municipalities within Saint John County (listed by 2016 population): Parishes The county is subdivided by the Territorial Division Act (Section 27) into one city and three parishes (listed by 2016 population): Demographics As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint John County 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. Language Access Routes Highways and numbered routes that run through the county, including external routes that start or finish at the county limits:Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas *Highways ** ** *Principal Routes ** ** *Se ...
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Kennebecasis River
The Kennebecasis River ( ) is a tributary of the Saint John River in southern New Brunswick, Canada. The name Kennebecasis is thought to be derived from the Mi'kmaq "''Kenepekachiachk''", meaning "little long bay place." It runs for approximately 95 kilometres, draining an area in the Caledonia Highlands, an extension of the Appalachian Mountains, inland from the Bay of Fundy.Kennebecasis Watershed
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The river's source is in the foothills of Albert County, near the rural community of Goshen. It runs southwest through the community of
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New Brunswick Route 845
Route 845 is a Canadian highway in Kings County, New Brunswick. The road passes along the southern side of the Kingston Peninsula. Route 845 begins within the town limits of Hampton at an intersection with Route 121. Next comes the village of Kingston, followed by the village of Clifton Royal which has a cable ferry ( Gondola Point Ferry) to the Saint John suburb of Quispamsis. Route 845 follows the southern shore of the Kingston Peninsula along the Kennebecasis River past Clifton Royal and Chapel Grove. Next is the community of Summerville, which has a seasonal ferry to Millidgeville, in Saint John. Adjacent to this ferry is another cable ferry to Kennebecasis Island, a summer-only community accessible from May to November. The road curves northward at Lands End opposite Grand Bay-Westfield, where a third ferry to Grand Bay-Westfield leaves from the Hardings Point Landing Road. The second half of Route 845 runs northeasterly along the Saint John River from Hard ...
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Belleisle Bay
Belleisle Bay is a fjord-like branch of the Saint John River in the Canadian province of New Brunswick Species of fish common to the area include, among others: *Yellow perch *White perch *Smallmouth bass *American eel *Lamprey eel *Pumpkin seed sunfish *Brown bull head catfish *Yellow bull head catfish *White bull head catfish *Southern channel catfish (a very rare catch in Canada) *Chain pickerel *Muskey (also rare) *Sturgeon *Stripped bass *Brown trout *Atlantic salmon Geography The bay is oriented northeast from the river, which it joins at the head of ''Long Reach'', just south of the village of Evandale. Belleisle Bay forms part of the northern boundary of southern New Brunswick's "Kingston Peninsula", with the southern boundary being the Kennebecasis River. Belleisle Bay has little current as it has few freshwater inlets and acts more-or-less as a lake in a glacial valley, framed by the low rolling hills of the ''St. Croix Highlands'' of the Appalachian range. Altho ...
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Saint John River (Bay Of Fundy)
The Saint John River (french: Fleuve Saint-Jean; Maliseet-Passamaquoddy: ''Wolastoq'') is a long river that flows from Northern Maine into Canada, and runs south along the western side of New Brunswick, emptying into the Atlantic Ocean in the Bay of Fundy. Eastern Canada's longest river, its drainage basin is one of the largest on the east coast at about . A part of the border between New Brunswick and Maine follows 130 km (80 miles) of the river. A tributary forms 55 km (35 miles) of the border between Quebec and Maine. New Brunswick settlements through which it passes include, moving downstream, Edmundston, Fredericton, Oromocto, and Saint John. It is regulated by hydro-power dams at Mactaquac, Beechwood, and Grand Falls, New Brunswick. Hydronym Samuel de Champlain visited the mouth of the river on the feast day of John the Baptist in 1604 and renamed it the Rivière Saint-Jean or Saint John River in English. Many waterways in the system retain their or ...
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