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Alma Parish
Alma is a geographic parish on the Bay of Fundy in the southwestern corner of Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes, Alma is divided between the village of Fundy Albert and the Southeast rural district, both of which are members of the Southeast Regional Service Commission. A small area on the western side of Fundy National Park belongs to the Fundy rural district. Prior to the 2023 governance reform, the parish was divided between the village of Alma and the local service district of the parish of Alma. Fundy National Park was ''de jure'' part of the LSD. The village and the park are now part of Fundy Albert, the LSD part of the rural district. The census subdivision of the same name includes all of the parish except the village of Alma, which forms its own census subdivision. The population of the parish CSD is so small that census numbers are rounded to maintain privacy. Revised census figures based on the 2023 local governance reforms have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Parishes In New Brunswick
The Canadian province of New Brunswick is divided by the ''Territorial Division Act'' into 152 Parish (administrative division), geographic parishes, units which had political significance as subdivisions of County, counties until the Municipalities Act of 1966. Parishes still exist in law and include any municipality, rural community, or regional municipality within their borders. They provided convenient boundaries for electoral districts and organising delivery of government services for some time after 1966 but were gradually supplanted for such purposes by Local service district (New Brunswick), local service districts (LSDs), which better represent communities of interest. Local governance reforms on 1 January 2023 abolished the local service district as a unit of governance but this did not affect the existence of geographic parishes. Parishes are still usedAs of July 2021, by more than a dozen Acts and more than fifty Regulations. to describe legal boundaries for health adm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Service District (New Brunswick)
A local service district (LSD) was a provincial administrative unit for the provision of local services in the Canadian province of New Brunswick New Brunswick is a Provinces and Territories of Canada, province of Canada, bordering Quebec to the north, Nova Scotia to the east, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the northeast, the Bay of Fundy to the southeast, and the U.S. state of Maine to .... LSDs originally covered areas of the province that maintained some services but were not made municipalities when the province's former county municipalities were dissolved at the start of 1967; eventually all of rural New BrunswickIndian reserves, national parks, and CFB Gagetown were under federal jurisdiction, and some small uninhabited islands were omitted from the regulations defining LSD boundaries. was covered by the LSD system. They were defined in law by the ''Local Service Districts Regulation'' of the ''Municipalities Act''. In 2017, the ''Municipalities Act'' was replaced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnetic Declination
Magnetic declination (also called magnetic variation) is the angle between magnetic north and true north at a particular location on the Earth's surface. The angle can change over time due to polar wandering. Magnetic north is the direction that the north end of a magnetized compass needle points, which corresponds to the direction of the Earth's magnetic field lines. True north is the direction along a meridian towards the geographic North Pole. Somewhat more formally, Bowditch defines variation as "the angle between the magnetic and geographic meridians at any place, expressed in degrees and minutes east or west to indicate the direction of magnetic north from true north. The angle between magnetic and grid meridians is called grid magnetic angle, grid variation, or grivation." By convention, declination is positive when magnetic north is east of true north, and negative when it is to the west. '' Isogonic lines'' are lines on the Earth's surface along which the declination ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salisbury Parish, New Brunswick
Salisbury is a geographic parish in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes it is divided between the town of Salisbury, the village of Three Rivers, and the Southeast rural district. All are members of the Southeast Regional Service Commission. Prior to the 2023 governance reform, the parish was divided between a much smaller village of Salisbury, the village of Petitcodiac, and the local service district of the parish of Salisbury, part of which was included in the special service area of Havelock Inside, which extended from the LSD of the parish of Havelock. Petitcodiac is now part of Three Rivers. Origin of name The origin of Salisbury's name is uncertain. William F. Ganong states it was "perhaps" due to it extending nearly to Salisbury Bay, a former name of Rocher Bay. The Provincial Archives of New Brunswick gives two possibilities: Sir John Salbusbury, who accompanied Edward Cornwallis on his mission to establish Nova Scotia; or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westmorland County, New Brunswick
Westmorland County (2021 population: 163,576) is a county in New Brunswick, a province of Canada. It is in the south-eastern part of the province. It contains the fast-growing commercial centre of Moncton and its northern and eastern suburbs. Also located in the county are the university town of Sackville and the local tourist destination of Shediac. Westmorland County is centrally located in the Maritimes and is New Brunswick's most populous county. Fishing and tourism are important industries along the Northumberland Strait shore, and there is some mixed farming in the Petitcodiac River Valley and in the Tantramar Marsh region. The city of Moncton accounts for half of the county's population and has developed as a major transportation, distribution, commercial and retail centre. Dorchester is the historic shire town. Origins The county, once a part of Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, was one of the original eight counties delineated shortly after the creation of the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres
Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (22 November 1721 – 27 October 1824) was a Canadian cartographer who served in the Seven Years' War, as the aide-de-camp to General James Wolfe. DesBarres is perhaps best known as the creator the monumental four-volume ''Atlantic Neptune'', the most important collection of maps, charts and views of North America published in the eighteenth century. He later went on to serve as the Lieutenant-Governor of Cape Breton Island#Colony of Cape Breton, Cape Breton Colony and later as Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island. Colonel DesBarres is buried with his wife under St. George's (Round) Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Early life DesBarres, who is seen as having lived through important changes in Nova Scotia's history, is thought to have been born in Basel, Switzerland (although Montbéliard has also been suggested), and was a member of a Huguenot family. His parents were Joseph-Leonard Vallet DesBarres and Anne-Catherine Cuvier and he was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Francis Ganong
William Francis Ganong (19 February 1864 – 7 September 1941) was a Canadian botanist, historian and cartographer. His botany career was spent mainly as a professor at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. In his private life he contributed to the historical and geographical understanding of his native New Brunswick. Early life and education William Francis Ganong was born on February 19, 1864, in Saint John, in what was previously Carleton, in pre-confederation New Brunswick, the eldest child of James Harvey Ganong and Susan E. Brittain, both of whom descended from United Empire Loyalists. He had six younger siblings, including Susan, Arthur, Edwin, and Kit. When he was nine years old, his family moved to St. Stephen where his father, along with his uncle, Gilbert Ganong, established the Ganong Brothers candy factory. It was expected that young William would enter the family business when he came of age, but early on, he showed an interest in the natural wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hopewell Parish, New Brunswick
Hopewell is a geographic parish in eastern Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes, most of the parish is part of the village of Fundy Albert, with the northwestern corner part of the Southeast rural district. Prior to the 2023 governance reform, the parish was divided between the village of Riverside-Albert and the local service district of the parish of Hopewell. History Hopewell parish originates in a 1765 one-hundred-thousand acre Cumberland County township grant within the British Colony of Nova Scotia, following "'' Le Grand Dérangement''". The proprietors of the township may have named it for Hopewell, Pennsylvania, possibly the home of some of the settlers of the township. The bounds of the township grant were described as follows, "To begin due west form the point of land lying between the Memramcook and Petitcodiac on the west side of the Petitcodiac River and to extend from form thence west twenty miles and from thence south to the sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint John County, New Brunswick
Saint John County (2021 population: 76,558) is located in southern New Brunswick, Canada. The city of Saint John dominates the county. Elsewhere in the county, tourism is focused around the Bay of Fundy. Census subdivisions Communities There are two municipalities within Saint John County (listed by 2016 population): Parishes The county is subdivided by the Territorial Division Act (Section 27) into one city and three parishes (listed by 2016 population): Demographics As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint John County had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Language Access Routes Highways and numbered routes that run through the county, including external routes that start or finish at the county limits:Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas *Highways ** ** *Principal Routes ** ** *Sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Martins Parish, New Brunswick
Saint Martins is a geographic parish in Saint John County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes the bulk of the parish is divided between the village of Fundy-St. Martins and the Fundy rural district, both of which are members of the Fundy Regional Service Commission. A minor portion on the east resides in Fundy Albert, which is a member of the Southeast Regional Service Commission. Prior to the 2023 governance reform, the parish was divided for governance purposes between the village of St. Martins and the local service district of the parish of Saint Martins, both of which were members of the Fundy Regional Service Commission (FRSC). Origin of name The Provincial Archives of New Brunswick gives only a possibility - St. Martins, Maryland, which could refer to either Saint Martin or Saint Martins by the Bay, both in Worcester County, Maryland. History Saint Martins was erected in 1786 as one of the county's original parish. In 1837 the eastern end of Saint M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
Cumberland County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Cumberland was named in 1755 in honour of the Duke of Cumberland to replace Beausejour. The historic county was founded in 1759 when the English system of administration was installed to complement settlement during the Charles Lawrence governorship, and was later divided at the partitioning of the province and in 1840. The area thrived in the 19th century with the development of lumbering, shipbuilding, and coal mining, but rural outmigration and deforestation led to some communities being abandoned in the 20th century. The county spans an area of 4,271.23 km2 making it Nova Scotia's second largest county, with resources including extensive forest land, several mineral resources, and agricultural areas that concentrate on wild blueberry harvesting. As of the 2021 census, Cumberland County had a population of 30,538, with the majority residing in the Municipality of the County of Cumberland. The county in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders of Russia, land borders with fourteen countries. Russia is the List of European countries by population, most populous country in Europe and the List of countries and dependencies by population, ninth-most populous country in the world. It is a Urbanization by sovereign state, highly urbanised country, with sixteen of its urban areas having more than 1 million inhabitants. Moscow, the List of metropolitan areas in Europe, most populous metropolitan area in Europe, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, while Saint Petersburg is its second-largest city and Society and culture in Saint Petersburg, cultural centre. Human settlement on the territory of modern Russia dates back to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
