Grand Falls is a
civil parish
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in
Victoria County,
New Brunswick
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,
Canada
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;
the legal name in French is Grand-Sault, the only parish with different English and French names.
For governance purposes it is entirely within the town of
Grand Falls,
which is a member of the Northwest Regional Service Commission.
Prior to the
2023 governance reform, the town of Grand Falls was much smaller in area and the remainder of the parish formed the
local service district of the parish of Grand Falls.
The town of Grand Falls is treated separately from the parish in the ''Territorial Division Act'',
the only instance of a municipality being separated from a parish. The town's modern municipal boundaries extend well beyond its description in the TDA.
Origin of name
The parish was named for the
waterfall
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Waterfalls can be formed in severa ...
located in the modern town of
Grand Falls.
History
Grand Falls was erected in 1853 from all of
Andover Parish north of the
Aroostook River and all of
Perth Parish north of a line due east from the northwest angle of the
Tobique Indian Reserve. The parish included all or most of
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,
Drummond, and
Lorne Parishes, as well as parts of
Gordon
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and
Saint-André Parishes.
In 1862 the boundary with
Saint-Léonard Parish was altered.
In 1864 part of Grand Falls was included in the newly erected Gordon Parish, which included Lorne Parish.
In 1872 all of Grand Falls east of the
Saint John River was erected as Drummond Parish.
In 1913 Grand Falls Parish was legally separated from the town of Grand Falls.
Boundaries
Grand Falls Parish is bounded:
[ Remainder of parish on maps 63 and 72 at same site.][ Remainder of parish on mapbooks 193, 208, and 223 at same site.]
* on the northeast and east by the
Saint John River;
* on the south by the
Aroostook River;
* on the west by the
American border;
* excluding Grand Falls Town.
[This is the only instance in the Territorial Division Act where a town is legally separate from its parish.] Grand Falls Town has much smaller boundaries than the municipality of
Grand Falls, containing only the Town Plat of Colebrook, which has Everard H. Daigle Boulevard and Harley Hill Street as its northern and southern boundaries and extends almost as far west as the end of Nowlan Street, and the Stewart Grant, which goes north about twice the distance between Everard H. Daigle Boulevard and Avenue 5ième and extends as far back as the junction of Caswell and Coldbrook Streets.
Communities
* Argosy
* Costigan
*
Four Falls
* Gillespie Settlement
*
Grand Falls Portage
*
Limestone
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* Lower California
* Lower Portage
* McCluskey
*
Morrell
*
Ortonville
* Upper California
*
Grand Falls
** Colebrooke West
Bodies of water
Bodies of water
[Not including brooks, ponds or coves.] at least partly in the parish:
*
Aroostook River
*
Saint John River
** Rapide de Femme
* Four Falls Stream
* Limestone Stream
* Costigan Lake
* McCullion Lake
* Mud Lake
* Piries Lake
* Round Lake
Demographics
Parish population total does not include portion within
Grand Falls
Population
Population trend
[Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 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
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Parishes of Victoria County, New Brunswick
Local service districts of Victoria County, New Brunswick