Douglas Parish, New Brunswick
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Douglas is a
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in York County,
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. For governance purposes it is divided between the city of
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and the local service districts of Estey's Bridge and the parish of Douglas, all of which are members of Regional Service Commission 11 (RSC11). Douglas Parish includes the special service areas of Carlisle Road and Lower Douglas.


Origin of name

The parish was named in honour of
Sir Howard Douglas General Sir Howard Douglas, 3rd Baronet, (23 January 1776 – 9 November 1861) was a British Army officer born in Gosport, England, the younger son of Admiral Sir Charles Douglas, and a descendant of the Earls of Morton. He was an English a ...
,
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at the time.


History

Douglas was erected in 1824 from Queensbury and Saint Marys Parish; the new parish included parts of modern
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and Stanley Parishes and extended north only as far as the
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. The boundary with Queensbury was adjusted in 1835, moving up the Saint John and running along a different angle in the interior.
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's map of 1836 parish boundaries shows a much smaller parish than today. In 1837–38 the interior north of the Keswick River and South Branch Dunbar Stream was included in the original Stanley Parish, dissolved a year after it was erected. This put settlements along the modern Route 620 in Stanley. In 1842 the parish was extended west to Southampton Parish, adding part of Queensbury to Douglas but also affecting unassigned lands. The northern boundary was unmentioned, implicitly extended upstream along the Nashwaak River. In 1845 the first of a half-dozen boundary changes among the islands in the Saint John River took place. While most of these changes took place in the nineteenth century, it was 1973 before the modern boundary was finalised. The original printed version is cited separately to distinguish it from the edited version available online. In 1847 the holdings of the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Land Company and unassigned lands to the north were erected as a new Stanley Parish, establishing the southern part of the modern boundary with Douglas. In 1850 the unassigned area to the north of the Nashwaak River and west of Stanley was added to Douglas,The same consolidation added the remaining unassigned parts of the province to existing parishes, mainly in York County. an area sparsely inhabited even today. In 1869 part of Douglas along the length of its southwestern boundary was erected as Bright Parish. In 1952 a narrow strip of land along the eastern border was removed when the Revised Statutes updated the Territorial Division Act's boundary for Fredericton; the earlier annexation of Devon by Fredericton did not affect the parish lines in the TDA. The 1973 enlargement of Fredericton created the same situation, with the city's municipal boundaries extending into Douglas Parish but not the boundaries listed in the TDA.


Boundaries

Douglas Parish is bounded: Remainder of parish on maps 92–94, 102–104, 113, 114, 125, and 126 at same site. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 243, 258, 259, 274, 275, 289–291, 306–309, 326–328, 347–350, 369, and 370 at same site. * on the northeast and east by a line beginning on the
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line at a point about 7 kilometres east of McKiel Lake, then running south to the northeastern corner of a grant to Isaac Woodward Jouett, which is on the southern side of the Mick Road, then generally southerly following the eastern line of grants along the Currieburg Road and Route 620 to the South Branch Dunbar Stream, then downstream about 1.85 kilometres to meet the western line of Saint Marys Parish, then south about 10 kilometres to the eastern line of a grant to Daniel Sawyer, about 2.3 kilometres west of Route 148, then southeast about 5 kilometres, partly along the southwestern line of the Devon 30
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, to meet the prolongation of Douglas Avenue, then along the prolongation and Douglas Avenue itself to the Saint John River;The Territorial Division Act uses the pre-1973 boundaries of Fredericton; the modern municipal boundaries extended further west. * on the south by the Saint John River; * on the west and southwest by a line running up 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 ...
to the mouth of Howard Brook, then running north 40º west to the Carleton County line; * on the northwest by the Carleton County line; * including Keswick, Mitchells, Upper Shores, and Lower Shores Islands and part of Sugar Island roughly north and west of the Baseline Road.


Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish. bold indicates an incorporated municipality; ''italics'' indicate a name no longer in official use * Barton * Birdton * Boyds Corner *
Burtts Corner Burtts Corner is a Canadian rural community in Douglas Parish, York County, New Brunswick. It is located on the Keswick River, a tributary of the Saint John River, between the communities of Keswick and Zealand Zealand ( da, Sjælla ...
* Cardigan * Currieburg * Deersdale * Dorn Ridge * Esteys Bridge * Fredericksburg *
Fredericton Fredericton (; ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The city is situated in the west-central portion of the province along the Saint John River, which flows west to east as it bisects the city. The river is the do ...
** Douglas **
Nashwaaksis Nashwaaksis is a neighbourhood and former village in the city of Fredericton, New Brunswick; it is located on the north bank of the Saint John River and at the mouth of the Nashwaaksis Stream, which should not be confused with the larger Nashwaak ...
* Half Moon Pit * Hamtown Corner * Hurlett * Jones Forks * Keswick * Killarney Road * Kingsley * Lower Stoneridge * MacLean Settlement * McLeod Hill * Morehouse Corner * ''Mouth of Keswick'' * Napadogan * North Tay * Pughs Crossing * Royal Road * ''Royal Road West'' * Tay Creek * Tay Mills * Upper Stoneridge * Woodlands * Zealand


Bodies of water

Bodies of waterNot including brooks, ponds or coves. at least partly within the parish. *
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 ...
*
Nashwaak River The Nashwaak River, located in west-central New Brunswick, Canada, is a tributary of the Saint John River. It is 113 kilometres long. The river rises from Nashwaak Lake (southeast of the village of Juniper) and flows south and east through uni ...
** The Narrows * North Tay River * Saint John River * South Tay River *
Southwest Miramichi River The Southwest Miramichi River is a river in New Brunswick, Canada. The river has its origin in Carleton County, at Miramichi Lake in the Miramichi Highlands (a part of the Appalachian Mountains). Its two branches join near the hamlet of Junipe ...
* Taxis River * South Branch Becaguimec Stream * South Branch Dunbar Stream * Little Nashwaaksis Stream * Nashwaaksis Stream * Regiment Creek * Weaver Creek * more than thirty officially names lakes


Islands

Islands at least partly within the parish. * Birch Island * Keswick Island * Lower Shores Island * Mitchells Island * Upper Shores Island


Other notable places

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish. * McBean Brook Protected Natural Area * Nashwaak River Protected Natural Area *
Push and Be Damned Rapids "Push and Be Damned Rapids" is the evocative name for rapids on the Southwest Miramichi River, one of the many tributaries of the Miramichi River, New Brunswick New Brunswick (french: Nouveau-Brunswick, , locally ) is one of the thirteen prov ...
* Sills Brook Protected Natural Area


Demographics

Parish population total does not include portion within
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Population

Population trendStatistics Canada:
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census


Language

Mother tongue (2016)


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


External links


Douglas LSD

City of Fredericton


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