Westmorland is a
civil parish
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in
Westmorland County,
New Brunswick
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,
Canada
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.
For governance purposes it is divided between the village of
Port Elgin and the
local service districts of
Baie-Verte,
Pointe de Bute, and the parish of Westmorland.
All governance units are members of the
Southeast Regional Service Commission.
Origin of name
Ganong considers the name to have "probably" come from
Westmorland
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's proximity to
Cumberland in England, or by the marshes in the English county.
Westmorland County was part of
Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
Cumberland County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
History
The name Cumberland was applied by Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Monckton to the captured Fort Beauséjour on June 18, 1755 in honour of the third son of King George I ...
until New Brunswick was created, and Westmorland Parish was part of the Nova Scotia township of Cumberland.
History
Cumberland Township was organised in Nova Scotia in 1763.
Westmorland was erected as a parish in 1786 from the New Brunswick portion of Cumberland Township.
In 1880 the boundary with
Sackville Parish was altered, transferring a large interior area to Sackville.
In 1894 the existing boundaries were declared retroactive to the parish's erection.
Boundaries
Westmorland Parish is bounded:
[ Remainder of parish on maps 122, 133, and 144 at same site.][ Remainder of parish on mapbooks 362, 382, 383, and 402 at same site.]
* on the northeast by a line running north 38º 30' west from the southeast angle of lot number one, granted to Otho Reed, at the mouth of Gaspereau Creek in
Port Elgin;
* on the east by
Baie Verte;
* on the southeast by the
Nova Scotia
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Most of the population are native Eng ...
border;
* on the southwest by
Cumberland Basin;
* on the west and northwest by a line running up the Aulac River to the prolongation of
Route 940 and Goose Creek Road, then by a line running northerly along the prolongation for about 4.3 kilometres, then running north 57º 30' east the channel of Big Jolicure Lake, then northeasterly to the mouth of Goose Creek, then up Goose Creek and Robinson Brook to a point about 300 metres south of Brooklyn Road and 300 metres west of Luciphy Road, then northeasterly about 3.6 kilometres to Brooklyn Road, then north 45º east
to the starting point.
Communities
Communities at least partly within the parish;
bold indicates an incorporated municipality
*
Aulac
*
Baie Verte
* Baie Verte Road
* Coburg
*
Halls Hill
*
Jolicure
*
Mount Whatley
*
Point de Bute
*
Port Elgin
* Tidnish Bridge
* Uniacke Hill
*
Upper Point de Bute
Bodies of water
Bodies of water
[Not including brooks, ponds or coves.] at least partly in the parish:
* Aulac River
* La Coupe River
*
Missaguash River The Missaguash River (French: Rivière Missaguash) is a small Canadian river that forms the southern portion of the inter-provincial boundary between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick on the Isthmus of Chignecto. It had historic significance in the 18t ...
*
Tidnish River
The Tidnish River is a short Canadian river on the Isthmus of Chignecto along the interprovincial boundary with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Rising in the northwest corner of Cumberland County, east of the interprovincial boundary, the river's ...
* Baie Verte Creek
* Goose Creek
* King Creek
* Otter Creek
*
Baie Verte
* Big Jolicure Lake
* Dwyers Lake
* Jolicure Lake
Demographics
Parish population total does not include portion within
Port Elgin
Population
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
*Secondary Routes:
**
*External Routes:
**None
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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Local service districts of Westmorland County, New Brunswick
Parishes of Westmorland County, New Brunswick