Rogersville is a community in Northumberland County,

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, built around the Intersection of

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and

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. It was an incorporated village until the end of 2022.

History

The village is named in honour of the

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, the Most Reverend James Rogers, late Bishop of

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. Rogersville is the home of two

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(Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance)

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, Notre-Dame de l'Assomption Abbey (Our Lady of the Assumption Abbey for women) and

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(Our Lady of Calvary Abbey for men). It is also the burial place of the man considered the Father of Modern Acadia—(Bishop) Monseigneur Marcel-Francois Richard, and the site of a monument containing his sarcophagus. On 1 January 2023, Rogersville annexed all or part of seven local service districts to form the new village of

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. The community's name remains in official use.

Present day

It is served by

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's train the ''

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'' which stops at the Rogersville railway station.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Rogersville 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. Population trend Statistics Canada:

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census Income (2015) Mother tongue (2016)

Places of note

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store * Ocean Spray Cranberry Fields

Border communities

* Acadie Siding * Pleasant Ridge * Collette * Shediac Ridge * Saint-Athanase * Saint-Pierre * Sapin-Court * Young Ridge

Notable people

References

External links

Official website
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