Saint Marys is a

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in York County,

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. For governance purposes it is divided between the city of Fredericton, the

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of Devon 30, and the local service district of the parish of Saint Marys, of which are the city and the LSD are members of Regional Service Commission 11 (RSC11). The LSD includes the special service areas of Evergreen Park and Pepper Creek.

Origin of name

The parish was settled in part by Loyalists from

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. St. Mary's County, Maryland was established well before the

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and may have been the source of some of the Loyalists.

History

Saint Marys was erected in 1786 as one of York County's original parishes. The parish ran thirty miles inland and extended to the

Keswick River The Keswick River is a tributary of the Saint John River in York County, New Brunswick in Canada. Early documents referred to it as Madam Keswick River. The Keswick River watershed is entirely rural, dominated by forests and small farms in the c ...

. In 1824 part of Saint Marys was included in the newly erected Douglas Parish. In 1837 part of Saint Marys was included in the newly erected Stanley Parish. In 1838 Stanley was dissolved and its territory implicitly returned to its original parishes. In 1847 part of Saint Marys was included in a new, much larger Stanley Parish. In 1945 the town of Devon was annexed by Fredericton. The boundary description of Saint Marys in the Territorial Division Act (TDA) implicitly removes the area from Saint Marys but the Fredericton entry in the TDA is not updated. In 1952 two grants were transferred to Saint Marys from Douglas. The boundary description of Fredericton was also updated, removing any ambiguity. The modern boundaries of Fredericton are not reflected in the TDA, having changed after the last revision of the Act.

Boundaries

Saint Marys Parish is bounded: Remainder of parish on maps 104, 105, 114, 115, and 126 at same site. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 294, 295, 309–311, 328–330, 349, 350, 370, and 371 at same site. * on the north beginning at a point about 650 metres north-northwesterly of Red Rock Branch Road and 900 metres west-southwesterly of Route 107, at the northwestern corner of Loyalist grants along the

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, then running easterly along the grant lines and their prolongation to the

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line, about 1.1 kilometres southwest of

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; * on the southeast by the Sunbury County line, running southwesterly to the Saint John River; * on the southwest by the Saint John River and a line beginning on the north bank of the Nashwaak River at the prolongation of Irvine Street, then northwesterly along Irvine Street, Eco Terra Drive, and the prolongation of Eco Terra Drive to meet the prolongation of Douglas Avenue near Ring Road;The Territorial Division Act uses the boundaries of Fredericton before the 1973 amalgamations. * on the west by a line running northeasterly along the prolongation of Douglas Avenue to the southwestern line of the Devon 30

, then northwest about 5 kilometres along the reserve and its prolongation to the eastern line of a grant to Daniel Sawyer, about 2.3 kilometres west of Route 148, then north about 10 kilometres to the South Branch Dunbar Stream, then easterly about 1.25 kilometres down the South Branch Dunbar to the western line of a grant to Samuel and John Casey, then northerly about 1.4 kilometres and easterly about 1.6 kilometres around the Casey grant to meet the rear line of the Loyalist grants along the Nashwaak, then northerly along the Loyalist grants, including a grant to Alexander Drummond along the English Settlement Road, to the starting point.

Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish. bold indicates an incorporated municipality or

; ''italics'' indicate a name no longer in official use * Bantalor * Cross Creek Station * Devon 30 * Durham Bridge * Fredericton ** Barkers Point ** Marysville ** Sandyville * Glencoe * Lower Durham * Manzer * Mount Hope * Nashwaak * Nashwaak Bridge * Nashwaak Village * Penniac * Pleasant Valley * Ross * St. Mary's 24 * South Portage * Taymouth * Upper Durham * ''Wellington'' * Zionville

Bodies of water

Bodies of waterNot including brooks, ponds or coves. at least partly within the parish. *

* Saint John River * Tay River * East Branch * Campbell Creek * Carman Creek * Grieves Creek * Kaine Creek * Dunbar Stream * Penniac Stream

Islands

Islands at least partly within the parish. * Penniac Island

Other notable places

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish. * Bantalor Protected Natural Area * Bantalor Wildlife Management Area * Burpee Wildlife Management Area * Cains River Protected Natural Area * Dunbar Falls

Demographics

Parish population total does not include

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and portion within Fredericton

Population

Population trendStatistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census

Language

Mother tongue (2016)

Notes

References

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