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Sackville, New Brunswick (parish)
Sackville is a civil parish in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes it is divided between the town of Tantramar, the incorporated rural community of Strait Shores, and the Southeast rural district, with small border areas belonging to the town of Cap-Acadie. All are members of the Southeast Regional Service Commission. Prior to the 2023 governance reform, the parish was divided between the town of Sackville and the local service district of the parish of Sackville, with a small area in the northeast part of the rural community of Beaubassin East. Origin of name The parish was named in honour of Lord George Sackville, later Secretary of State for the Colonies. History Sackville was established in 1772 as a Nova Scotia township. Sackville was erected as one of Westmorland County's original parishes in 1786 with enlarged boundaries; most of the modern town of Shediac was added. In 1827 the northern part of Sackville was included in the new ... [...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] |
Local Service District (New Brunswick)
A local service district (LSD) is a provincial administrative unit for the provision of local services in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. LSDs relate to areas of the province's former county municipalities that were not incorporated as municipalities around centres of population. They are defined in law by the ''Local Service Districts Regulation'' of the ''Municipalities Act''. In 2017, the ''Municipalities Act'' was replaced by the ''Local Governance Act'', which continued the ''Local Service Districts Regulation''. LSDs are operated by provincial staff. Residents have the opportunity to serve in an advisory capacity to provincial staff. As management units collectively referred to as unincorporated areas, application of the LSD concept has evolved to fit changes in communities over time, and they define their communities to varying degrees. For example, sub-units of the LSD make it possible to have separate taxing units within a LSD where one area may have grown to ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chignecto Bay
Chignecto Bay (french: Baie de Chignectou) is an inlet of the Bay of Fundy located between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and separated from the waters of the Northumberland Strait by the Isthmus of Chignecto. It is a unit within the greater Gulf of Maine Watershed. Chignecto Bay forms the northeastern part of the Bay of Fundy which splits at Cape Chignecto and is delineated on the New Brunswick side by Martin Head. Chignecto bay was also the site of an unsuccessful railway and canal project of the 1880s and 1890s that would have intersected the landmass, thereby providing a transit passage between New England and Prince Edward Island. After several investigations into the feasibility of a new canal project, including most importantly by the Chignecto Canal Commission, the proposed Chignecto Canal was deemed commercially and economically unjustifiable and the project was abandoned. Some of the physical remnants of the 1880s project still continue to dot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumberland Basin (Canada)
Cumberland Basin is an inlet and northeasternmost part of the Bay of Fundy, located on the border between the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The Isthmus of Chignecto lies directly northeast of the basin, and Shepody Bay joins the Cumberland Basin near its entrance into the larger water body, Chignecto Bay. Along the Nova Scotia shore of Cumberland Basin at Joggins are seaside cliffs famous for fossils. Several coal seams are also exposed. These were mined commercially for Bituminous coal for nearly 140 years, between 1819 and 1958. The fishery in Cumberland Basin is mainly limited to shad and lobster Lobsters are a family (biology), family (Nephropidae, Synonym (taxonomy), synonym Homaridae) of marine crustaceans. They have long bodies with muscular tails and live in crevices or burrows on the sea floor. Three of their five pairs of legs .... Bodies of water of Nova Scotia Bodies of water of New Brunswick Landforms of Cumberland County, Nova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Brunswick Route 940
Route 940 is a long north to south secondary highway in the southeastern portion of New Brunswick, Canada. Route description Most of the route is in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Westmorland County. The route's northern terminus is in Shemogue, New Brunswick, Shemogue at New Brunswick Route 15, Route 15 and New Brunswick Route 950, Route 950. It travels southwest through a mostly treed area where it passes Square Lake (New Brunswick), Square Lake. The route passes through Anderson Settlement, New Brunswick, Anderson Settlement, Centre Village, New Brunswick, Centre Village then turns south in Midgic, New Brunswick, Midgic. The route again turns southwest passing through Ward, New Brunswick, Ward then crosses the Tantramar River (New Brunswick), Tantramar River, entering Upper Sackville, New Brunswick, Upper Sackville. The route passes Silver Lake (New Brunswick), Silver Lake then enters Middle Sackville, New Brunswick, Middle Sackville then crosses New Brunswick Route 1, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Elgin, New Brunswick
Port Elgin is a Canadian village in Westmorland County, New Brunswick. It is located near the Nova Scotia border at the mouth of the Gaspereaux River where it empties into the Northumberland Strait's Baie Verte. History The village was founded by Acadians in 1690, but abandoned after the Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755. The earthworks of Fort Gaspareaux, a French military fortification from the Seven Years' War are located at the mouth of the river immediately east of the village. Following the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War, British Loyalists resettled in the area which was named Gaspareaux Town. Gaspareaux Town was renamed Port Elgin in 1847 in honour of Lord Elgin. The community was incorporated as a village in 1922, the first community in the province to do so. Throughout the 19th century and first half of the 20th century, Port Elgin experienced modest industrialization with a handful of small factories, tanneries, and sawmills. The village also sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memramcook River
The Memramcook River is a river located in Westmorland County, in southeastern New Brunswick, eastern Canada. Geography Its meander length is approximately , of which approximately is a tidal estuary to its discharge point into the Petitcodiac River. See also *Memramcook, New Brunswick * Petitcodiac Riverkeeper *Shepody Bay *Bay of Fundy The Bay of Fundy (french: Baie de Fundy) is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the U.S. state of Maine. It is an arm of the Gulf of Maine. Its extremely high tidal range is the hi ... References Rivers of New Brunswick Landforms of Westmorland County, New Brunswick {{NewBrunswick-river-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] |
Westmorland Parish, New Brunswick
Westmorland is a civil parish in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes it is divided between the village of Port Elgin and the local service districts of Baie-Verte, Pointe de Bute, and the parish of Westmorland. All governance units are members of the Southeast Regional Service Commission. Origin of name Ganong considers the name to have "probably" come from Westmorland's proximity to Cumberland in England, or by the marshes in the English county. Westmorland County was part of Cumberland County, Nova Scotia until New Brunswick was created, and Westmorland Parish was part of the Nova Scotia township of Cumberland. History Cumberland Township was organised in Nova Scotia in 1763. Westmorland was erected as a parish in 1786 from the New Brunswick portion of Cumberland Township. In 1880 the boundary with Sackville Parish was altered, transferring a large interior area to Sackville. In 1894 the existing boundaries were declared retroact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shediac Parish, New Brunswick
Shediac is a civil parish in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes it is divided between the town of Shediac, the village of Cap-Pelé, the incorporated rural community of Beaubassin East;, and the local service districts of Grande-Digue, Pointe-du-Chêne, Scoudouc, Scoudouc Road, Shediac Bridge-Shediac River, Shediac Cape, and the parish of Shediac. All governance units are members of the Southeast Regional Service Commission. Origin of name The parish's name comes the community of Shediac, itself from a corruption of Mi'kmaq ''Es-ed-ei'-ik'', translated by Rand as "running far back." There was a Fort Shediac mentioned in documents around 1755, on the mainland opposite Shediac Island. History Shediac was erected in 1827 from Dorchester and Sackville Parishes. In 1894 the existing boundaries were declared retroactive to the parish's erection. In 1904 the boundary with Botsford Parish was clarified. Boundaries Shediac Parish is bound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shediac, New Brunswick
Shediac (official in both languages; ''Shédiac'' is colloquial French) is a heavily Acadian town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick. The town is home to the famous Parlee Beach and is known as the "Lobster Capital of the World". It hosts an annual festival every July which promotes its ties to lobster fishing. At the western entrance to the town is a 90-ton sculpture called ''The World's Largest Lobster''. It is believed that chiac, a well-known French accent, was named after Shediac. Etymology Shediac was originally called La Batture. Its name was later changed to Shediac in reference to its position at the basin of the Shediac River. The name "Shediac" itself is derived from the Micmac word ''Esedeiik'', which means "which comes from far away", possibly in reference to the Shediac Bay or the current of the Petitcodiac river. Geography Shediac is situated primarily on Route 133 around Shediac Bay, a sub-basin of the Northumberland Strait. Its topography is relatively ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Township (Nova Scotia)
A township in Nova Scotia, Canada, was an early form of land division and local administration during British colonial settlement in the 18th century. They were created as a means of populating the colony with people loyal to British rule. They were typically rural or wilderness areas of around that would eventually include several villages or towns. Some townships, but not all, returned a member to the General Assembly of Nova Scotia; others were represented by the members from the county. Townships became obsolete by 1879 by which time towns and counties had become incorporated. Historical background Originally inhabited by Mi'kmaq peoples, the first European colonists to settle in present-day Nova Scotia were the French who arrived in 1605 and founded Acadia. The British conquest of Acadia took place in 1710 and was formalised by the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht which returned Cape Breton Island to the French. This marked the beginning of permanent British control over the penin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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