Greenwich is a
civil parish
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in
Kings County Kings County or King's County may refer to:
Places Canada
*Kings County, New Brunswick
*Kings County, Nova Scotia
*Kings County, Prince Edward Island
** King's County (electoral district), abolished in 1892
Ireland
* County Offaly, formerly call ...
,
New Brunswick
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,
Canada
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For governance purposes, the parish is part of the Fundy rural district,
which is a member of the Fundy Regional Service Commission.
Prior to the
2023 governance reform, it comprised a single local service district, which was a member of the
Fundy Regional Service Commission (FRSC).
The
Census subdivision of the same name shares the parish's boundaries.
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Origin of name
The origin of the parish's name is uncertain, Greenwich being a placename in several of the Thirteen Colonies
The Thirteen Colonies, also known as the Thirteen British Colonies, the Thirteen American Colonies, or later as the United Colonies, were a group of Kingdom of Great Britain, British Colony, colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America. Fo ...
. Historian William F. Ganong listed Greenwich, England as a possible source, then later added Greenwich Village
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in New York and Greenwich Street in Hempstead, New York.
Notable is that the names of Kings County's pre-1800 parishes all occur in both New Jersey and North Carolina.
History
Greenwich was erected in 1795 from Kingston Parish.
In 1860 the mainland east of the Saint John River was included in the newly erected parish of Kars
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.
Boundaries
Greenwich Parish is bounded:[ Remainder of parish on maps 149, 156, and 157 at same site.][ Remainder of parish on mapbooks 445, 459, and 460 at same site.]
*on the northwest by the Queens County line;
*on the northeast by the Saint John River;
*on the southeast by the Long Reach of the Saint John River;
*on the southwest by a line beginning at the mouth of Devils Back Brook where the southwestern line of the grant to George Young strikes, then northwesterly along the grant line and its prolongation to the county line at a point about 300 metres northeasterly of the northern end of Mud Lake;
*including Catons Island, Grassy Island, Isle of Pines, Rocky Island, and Rush Island in Long Reach.
Governance
The entire parish formed the local service district of the parish of Greenwich, established in 1976 to assess for fire protection and first aid and ambulance services. Recreational facilities were added to the assessment in 1995, with first aid and ambulance services removed at the same time.
Communities
Communities at least partly within the parish; ''italics'' indicate a name no longer in official use
*Browns Corner
* Browns Flat
*Central Greenwich
*Cochrane Corner
*Days Corner
* Evandale
*Glenwood
*''Grand View''
* Greenwich Hill
*Johnson Croft
*Lynch Corner
*''McPherson''
*Oak Point
*Upper Greenwich
*Victoria Beach
Bodies of water
Bodies of water[Not including brooks, ponds or coves.] at least partly in the parish:
* Saint John River
*Jones Creek
*Marley Creek
*Nutter Creek
*more than fifteen officially named lakes
Islands
Islands at least partly in the parish.
*Catons Island
*Grassy Island
*Isle of Pines
*Rocky Island
*Rush Island
Demographics
Population
Population trend
Language
Mother tongue (2016)
Access Routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ]
*Highways
**None
*Principal Routes
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*None
*External Routes:
**None
See also
* List of parishes in New Brunswick
Notes
References
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Parishes of Kings County, New Brunswick
Local service districts of Kings County, New Brunswick