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Norton Parish, New Brunswick
Norton is a civil parish in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes it is divided between the town of Hampton, the village of Norton, and the local service district of the parish of Norton, all of which are members of Regional Service Commission 8 (RSC8). Origin of name Norton may have been named for Norton, Massachusetts, near Taunton, which was the original home of many of the first settlers to this area. Notable is that the names of Kings County's pre-1800 parishes all occur in both New Jersey and North Carolina. History Norton was erected in 1795 from Sussex Parish and Kingston Parish. In 1844 the boundary with Kingston was adjusted. Writer Emily Elizabeth Shaw Beavan worked in the parish as a young teacher. Boundaries Norton Parish is bounded: Remainder of parish on maps 149 and 150 at same site. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 431, 432, 446, and 447 at same site. *on the west and northwest by a line beginning at the northern bank of the Kenne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredericton
Fredericton (; ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The city is situated in the west-central portion of the province along the Saint John River, which flows west to east as it bisects the city. The river is the dominant natural feature of the area. One of the main urban centres in New Brunswick, the city had a population of 63,116 and a metropolitan population of 108,610 in the 2021 Canadian Census. It is the third-largest city in the province after Moncton and Saint John. An important cultural, artistic, and educational centre for the province, Fredericton is home to two universities, the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, and cultural institutions such as the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the Fredericton Region Museum, and The Playhouse, a performing arts venue. The city hosts the annual Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival, attracting regional and international jazz, blues, rock, and world artists. Fredericton is also an important and vibrant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloomfield Ridge, Kings County, New Brunswick
Bloomfield Ridge is a List of communities in New Brunswick, settlement in Kings County, New Brunswick, Kings County, New Brunswick. History Notable people See also *List of communities in New Brunswick References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloomfield, Kings County, New Brunswick
Bloomfield is a rural community in Kings County, New Brunswick New Brunswick (french: Nouveau-Brunswick, , locally ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. It is the only province with both English and ..., Canada. It is located mostly along Route 121. History Notable people See also * List of communities in New Brunswick Communities in Kings County, New Brunswick {{NewBrunswick-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnetic Declination
Magnetic declination, or magnetic variation, is the angle on the horizontal plane between magnetic north (the direction the north end of a magnetized compass needle points, corresponding to the direction of the Earth's magnetic field lines) and true north (the direction along a meridian towards the geographic North Pole). This angle varies depending on position on the Earth's surface and changes over time. Somewhat more formally, Bowditch defines variation as “the angle between the magnetic and geographic meridians at any place, expressed in degrees and minutes east or west to indicate the direction of magnetic north from true north. The angle between magnetic and grid meridians is called grid magnetic angle, grid variation, or grivation.” By convention, declination is positive when magnetic north is east of true north, and negative when it is to the west. ''Isogonic lines'' are lines on the Earth's surface along which the declination has the same constant value, and line ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Brunswick Route 124
Route 124 is an east/west provincial highway in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The road runs from Route 1 exit 175 in Valley Waters as far as the Saint John River, where it crosses the Evandale Ferry to Evandale and an intersection with Route 102. The road has a length of approximately 41.3 kilometres, excluding the distance across the river, and services small, otherwise isolated rural communities. In these areas, the highway is often unofficially referred to as "Mountain Road." This route intersects with New Brunswick Route 850. Communities along Route 124 * Valley Waters * Midland * Springfield * Hatfield Point * Kars * Evandale See also *List of New Brunswick provincial highways This is a list of numbered provincial highways in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. These provincial highways are maintained by the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure in New Brunswick. For a list of formerly-numbered highways, ... References New Brunswick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studholm Parish, New Brunswick
Studholm is a civil parish in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes it forms the local service district of the parish of Studholm, which further includes the service area of Lower Millstream. The local service district is a member of Regional Service Commission 8 (RSC8). Origin of name The parish was named in honour of Gilfred Studholme, a Loyalist military commander during the American Revolution, who later settled in the area and served on the first Executive Council of New Brunswick. History Studholm was erected in 1840 from Sussex Parish. It included Havelock Parish. In 1859 the eastern polling district was erected as Havelock Parish. In 1871 part of Havelock along Windgap Brook was returned to Studholm. Boundaries Studholm Parish is bounded: Remainder of parish on maps 130, 140, 141, and 150 at same site. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 376, 395–397, 414, 415, and 432 at same site. *on the northwest by the Queens County line; *on the east ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chain (unit)
The chain is a unit of length equal to 66 feet (22 yards). It is subdivided into 100 links (PDF) or 4 rods. There are 10 chains in a furlong, and 80 chains in one statute mile. In metric terms, it is 20.1168 m long. By extension, chainage (running distance) is the distance along a curved or straight survey line from a fixed commencing point, as given by an odometer. The chain has been used for several centuries in England and in some other countries influenced by English practice. In the United Kingdom, there were 80 chains to the mile, but until the early nineteenth century the Scottish and Irish customary miles were longer than the statute mile; consequently a Scots chain was about 74 (imperial) feet, an Irish chain 84 feet. These longer chains became obsolete following the adoption of the imperial system of units in 1824. Definition The UK statute chain is 22 yards, which is . This unit is a statute measure in the United Kingdom, defined in the Weights and Measures Act 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Restoration Committee Description The river's source is in the foothills of Albert County, near the rural community of Goshen. It runs southwest through the community of[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
