Clair is a
civil parish
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in
Madawaska County
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,
New Brunswick
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,
Canada
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.
For governance purposes it is part of the
incorporated rural community of
Haut-Madawaska
Haut-Madawaska is an incorporated rural community in Madawaska County within the province of New Brunswick, Canada. It is located in the New Brunswick Panhandle and was formed in 2017 through the amalgamation of four villages with five local s ...
, which is a member of the
Northwest Regional Service Commission (NWRSC).
Origin of name
Clair was named in honour of Peter Clair, an early immigrant from
County Clare, Ireland.
History
Clair was erected in 1900 from
Saint-François.
In 1912
Lac Baker Parish was erected from part of Clair; the boundary was slightly altered later that year.
Clair was affected by the major reorganisation of Madawaska County parish boundaries in 1946.
Boundaries
Clair Parish is bounded:
[ Remainder of parish on mapbooks 119, 140, and 141 at same site.]
*on the northeast and north, running entirely along grant lines, starting at a point about 1.35 kilometres northwest of Chemin des Long,
[ WP:ENG is ignored when it would result in a clumsy construction.] on the northeastern line of Range Three of the Baker Lake Settlement, which is two tiers inland of the western side of
Lac Baker, then running southeasterly to the northwestern corner of a triangular grant on Brown Road, then easterly and northeasterly along two Brown Road grants, then easterly along the
Saint John River grants to a point about 1.2 kilometres east of
Route 120;
*on the east by the eastern line of a grant to John C. Ouellet and its prolongation to the
international border
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in the Saint John River;
*on the south by the international border;
*on the west and northwest by a line beginning in the Saint John River on the prolongation of the western line of a grant to Edward Levasseur in Range Two, the Levasseur lot being on the western side of Levasseur Road at its northern end, then northerly along the prolongation through Range One (the river grants), the grant line, and the northerly prolongation to the northern line of Range Three, afterwards running entirely on grant lines, westerly along Range 3 to the southwestern line of Range Five of Baker Lake Settlement, then northwesterly along Range Five about 1.3 kilometres, then northeasterly to the southwestern line of Range Four, then northwesterly along Range Four about 2 kilometres, then northeasterly across Range Four and Range Three to the starting point.
Communities
Communities at least partly within the parish;
bold indicates an incorporated municipality; italics indicate a name no longer in official use
*
Caron Brook
*
Clair
**Concession-des-Vasseur
*Concession-des-Lang
*''Crockett''
*Les Rapides
Bodies of water
Bodies of water
[Not including brooks, ponds or coves.] at least partly in the parish:
*
Saint John River
*Thompson Lake
Demographics
Parish population total does not include former village of
Clair
Population
Language
See also
*
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 inclu ...
Notes
References
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Parishes of Madawaska County, New Brunswick
Local service districts of Madawaska County, New Brunswick