Petersville is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in Queens County,

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. For governance purposes it is divided between

CFB Gagetown 5th Canadian Division Support Base (5 CDSB) Gagetown, formerly known as and commonly referred to as CFB Gagetown, is a large Canadian Forces Base covering an area over , located in southwestern New Brunswick. Construction of the base At the ...

and the local service districts of

Wirral-Enniskillen Wirral-Enniskillen is a local service district in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It is located at the confluence of the Gaspereau and Salmon rivers. History Originally settled as Gaspereau and later Gaspereau Station, when it was a ...

and the parish of Petersville. Wirral-Enniskillen is part of Regional Service Commission 11 (RSC11) and Petersville Parish is part of the Fundy Regional Service Commission (FRSC).

Origin of name

William Francis Ganong William Francis Ganong, M.A., Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S.C., (19 February 1864 - 7 September 1941) was a Canadian biologist botanist, historian and cartographer. His botany career was spent mainly as a professor at Smith College in Northampton, Mass ...

states that the parish was named in honour of

Harry Peters Harry Peters (ca. 1788 – 1870) was a merchant and political figure in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. He represented the city of Saint John in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1816 to 1828. He was the son of James Pe ...

, then

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of the

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. Peters' tenure as Speaker actually ended in 1827 but he continued to serve as MLA until 1843. Harry's brother

Charles Jeffery Peters Charles Jeffery Peters (October 8, 1773 – February 3, 1848) was a lawyer, judge and politician in New Brunswick. He was born in Hempstead, New York, the son of James Peters, a United Empire Loyalist, and Margaret Lester. Peters came to No ...

was

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when the parish was erected.

History

Petersville was erected in 1838 from Gagetown and Hampstead Parishes. Much of the parish was expropriated in 1953 for the creation of CFB Gagetown.

Boundaries

Petersville Parish is bounded: Remainder of parish on maps 147–149, 155, 156, and 163 at same site. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 429, 443–445, 458–460, 471, and 472 at same site. * on the northeast and east within CFB GagetownRoads still appear on cadastral maps but not in highway mapbooks; because the old roads and grants are used in the Territorial Division Act they're used here. by a line beginning at the prolongation of the southwestern line of a grant to Thomas T. Hewlett at the corner of Lawfield and Kerr Roads in Summer Hill, then southwesterly following Lawfield Road to the westernmost corner of a grant to Henry Appleby, then southeasterly along the prolongation of the northeastern line of a grant to Sylvanus Haviland to its easternmost corner, then southwest to the Yorkshire Road, then along Yorkshire Road to the Kings County line; * on the southeast by the Kings County line; * on the southwest by the Charlotte County line; * on the northwest by the Sunbury County line.

Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish. ''italics'' indicate a community expropriated for

* ''Armstrong Corner'' * Bayard * ''Blakely'' * Clarendon * ''Clones'' * ''Cootes Hill'' * ''Dunns Corner'' * Enniskillen * ''Ferris'' * ''Fowlers Corners'' * ''Headline'' * ''Loisville'' * ''Olinville'' * ''Petersville'' * ''South Clones'' * ''Summer Hill'' * ''Vincent'' * Welsford * ''West Jerusalem'' * Wirral * Wirral Station

Bodies of water

Bodies of waterNot including brooks, ponds or coves. at least partly within the parish. * River George * West Branch Musquash River * Brittain Stream * Crystal Stream * Cunningham Creek * more than fifteen officially named lakes

Other notable places

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish. *

* Lepreau River Wildlife Management Area * Loch Alva Protected Natural Area

Demographics

Population

Population trend

Language

Mother tongue (2016)

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas *Highways ** *Principal Routes ** *None *External Routes: **None

Notes

References

External links

Petersville Local Service District-LSD

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