Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes is a

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. For governance purposes, the parish is divided between the town of Vallée-des-Rivières in the southwest and the Northwest rural district in the northeast, both of which are members of the Northwest Regional Service Commission. Before the 2023 governance reforms, the entire parish formed the

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of the parish of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes.

Origin of name

The parish takes its name from the

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ecclesiastical parish.

History

Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes was erected in 1922 from Sainte-Anne Parish. In 1946 Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes was affected by the major reorganisation of Madawaska County parish boundaries.

Boundaries

Notre-Dames-de-Lourdes Parish is bounded: Remainder of parish on maps 34, 35, 44, and 45 at same site. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 100, 101, 122, 123, and 144 at same site. *on the east by the Victoria County line, beginning at a point about 3.7 kilometres south of the

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line and running south about 10.2 kilometres to the prolongation of the southeastern line of a grant to Aimé Dubé on the southeastern side of Grande Rivière; *on the southeast, beginning on the county line, then running southwesterly along the prolongation of Dubé to its easternmost corner, then generally southerly along the rear line of grants fronting on the southeastern side of Grande Rivière to the end of the tier, about 450 metres past Diamond Road; *on the south, beginning at the southernmost corner of a grant to William Byram at the end of the Grande Rivière tier, then running westerly and northwesterly along the Byram grant to Grande Rivière, then downstream to the southeastern line of a grant to Rosomo Violette, about 600 metres northwesterly of Grande Rivière and about 400 metres northeasterly of

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, then southwesterly along the Violette grant to its southernmost corner, which is on the rear line of the grants along the Saint John River, then northwesterly along the Saint John River tier to a point on Route 2 about 50 metres northwest of the bridge across the Siegas River, the westernmost corner of a grant to Joseph P. Cye, then northeasterly along the northwestern line of Joseph P. Cyr to the rear line of Tier Two behind the Saint John River grants, then northwesterly along Tier Two, crossing Siegas River, to the westernmost corner of a grant to Paul Cyr, about 300 metres past the Siegas River; *on the west and northwest, beginning on the westernmost corner of the Paul Cyr, then running generally northeasterly along the rear line of grants fronting on the northwestern side of Ruisseau Noir Road until it reaches the northeastern line of a grant to James Dubé which straddles Ruisseau Noir near its mouth, then northeasterly along the rear line of Tier Four of the Siegas Lake Settlement, which fronts on the southeastern side of Martin Road, until it reaches the southwestern line of the Dubé Settlement at the southwestern line of a grant to Abel Gauvin, then northwesterly along Dubé Settlement to Martin Road, then northeasterly along the remainder of Martin Road to the northeastern line of Dubé Settlement, then southeasterly along Dubé Settlement to the prolongation of the southeastern line of the last four grants in Tier Four of Siegas Lake, then northeasterly along the prolongation to the county line.

Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish; bold indicates an incorporated municipality *Flemming *Harrison Brook Settlement *Miller Line Cache * Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes

Bodies of water

Bodies of waterNot including brooks, ponds or coves. at least partly in the parish: *Grande Rivière *

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Demographics

Population

Population trendStatistics Canada:

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census

Language

Mother tongue (2016)

Notes

References

{{Coord, 47, 15, 00, N, 67, 56, 15, W, name=Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes Parish, New Brunswick, display=title, region:CA-NB_type:adm3rd_scale:100000 Parishes of Madawaska County, New Brunswick