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Saint-Basile Parish, New Brunswick
Saint-Basile is a civil parish in Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes it is divided between the city of Edmundston, the St. Basile 10 Indian Reserve, and the Northwest rural district; the city and rural district are members of the Northwest Regional Service Commission. Before the 2023 governance reform, the area now in the rural district formed the local service district of the parish of Saint-Basile. Origin of name The parish was named for the Roman Catholic church. History Saint-Basile was erected as Saint Basil in 1850 from Madawaska Parish. In 1852 the parish's boundaries were extended northward to include territory awarded in the boundary settlement with the Province of Canada. In 1874 the core of modern Edmundston was removed from Saint-Basile and added to Madawaska Parish. In 1877 the newly erected Sainte-Anne Parish included part of Saint-Basile. In 1896 the boundary along Green River was altered. In 1920 part of Saint-Basile wa ... [...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 parishes, units which had political significance as subdivisions of 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 districts (LSDs), which better represent communities of interest. Local governance reforms scheduled for 1 January 2023 will abolish the local service district as a unit of governance but this will not affect the existence of civil 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 administration judicial matters, agricultural boards, and some other entities; highwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madawaska Parish, New Brunswick
Madawaska is a civil parish in Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada. The parish consists of two discontiguous portions, separated by Saint-Joseph Parish. For governance purposes, the southwestern portion is divided between the city of Edmundston and the town of Haut-Madawaska; the northeastern portion is part of the Northwest rural district. All three bodies are part of the Northwest Regional Service Commission. Before the 2023 governance reform, the northeastern portion of the parish formed the local service district of the parish of Madawaska. Origin of name The parish was named for the Madawaska River. History Madawaska was erected in 1833 from the northern part of Kent Parish, taking in most of modern Madawaska County and the northern part of Victoria County. In 1850 three new parishes were erected from Madawaska: Saint-Basile, Saint-François, and Saint-Léonard. In 1852 the parish was extended northward to include territory awarded in the boundary settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iroquois River (Saint John River Tributary)
The Iroquois River is a tributary of the Saint John River (Bay of Fundy) emptying in New Brunswick, in Canada. This river flows into the Notre Dame Mountains, in the municipality of Dégelis, Quebec, in Temiscouata Regional County Municipality (RCM), in administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent, in Quebec; and in the Madawaska County, in New Brunswick, in Canada. The Iroquois River flows south especially in forest areas, more or less in parallel, between the Little Iroquois River (East side) and the Madawaska River (Saint John River). The Iroquois River flows on the north shore of Saint John River (Bay of Fundy). The latter flows southeast through all the New Brunswick province and pours on the north bank of the Bay of Fundy which is opened to the southwest on the Atlantic Ocean. Geography Course of the river The Iroquois River originates at the mouth of Lake Iroquois (length: ; altitude: ), located in the municipality of Dégelis, Quebec, in MRC Témiscouata Regional C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madawaska Maliseet First Nation
Madawaska Maliseet First Nation ( pqm, Wəlastəkwewiyik Matowesekok) or St. Basile 10 band is one of six Wolastoqiyik or Maliseet Nations on the Saint John River in Canada. The Madawaska Maliseet First Nation (MMFN) territory is in Northern New Brunswick. The MMFN reserve is located 1.6 km east of Edmundston in the north-western region of New Brunswick. The band membership has 350 people. About 114 members of the MMFN live on the St. Basile no. 10 reserve. They are part of the Saint John River Valley Tribal Council. Family names include Bernard, Cimon, Francis, and Wallace. History The Maliseet also Malecite, ''Malécites'' or ''Étchemins'', their name for themselves, or autonym is ''Wəlastəkwewiyik'', ''Wolastoqiyik.'' ''Wolastoq'' means "Beautiful River," referring to the Saint John River. ''Wolastoqiyik'' means "People of the Beautiful River" in Maliseet. Wəlastəkwewiyik "The Maliseet People," in Maliseet. Their traditional land extended along the Wolastoq/S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Basile, New Brunswick
Saint-Basile is a community in Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada. Formerly a separate municipality, it was amalgamated into the City of Edmundston on May 25, 1998. The 2006 Canadian Census recorded a population of 3751. History Notable people See also * List of neighbourhoods in New Brunswick References Community Demographicsfrom Industry Canada Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED; french: Innovation, Sciences et Développement économique Canada; french: ISDE, label=none)''Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada'' is the applied title under the Federal ... Neighbourhoods in Edmundston Populated places disestablished in 1998 Former towns in New Brunswick 1998 disestablishments in Canada {{NewBrunswick-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Joseph Parish, New Brunswick
Saint-Joseph is a civil parish in Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes it is divided between the city of Edmundston and the Northwest rural district, both members of the Northwest Regional Service Commission (NWRSC). Before the 2023 governance reforms, the local service district of the parish of Saint-Joseph shared the parish's boundaries. Saint-Joseph bisects Madawaska and Saint-Jacques Parishes, the only area in the province where parishes are discontiguous. Origin of name The parish probably takes its name from the Roman Catholic ecclesiastical parish. History Saint-Joseph was erected in 1930 from Madawaska and Saint-Jacques Parishes; the name was spelt without a hyphen. Saint-Joseph was affected by the major reorganisation of Madawaska County parish boundaries. In 1973 the hyphen was added to the legal name of the parish. Boundaries Saint-Joseph Parish is bounded: Remainder of parish on maps 20 and 33 at same site. Remainder of parish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada–United States Border
The border between Canada and the United States is the longest international border in the world. The terrestrial boundary (including boundaries in the Great Lakes, Atlantic, and Pacific coasts) is long. The land border has two sections: Canada's border with the contiguous United States to its south, and with the U.S. state of Alaska to its west. The bi-national International Boundary Commission deals with matters relating to marking and maintaining the boundary, and the International Joint Commission deals with issues concerning boundary waters. The agencies currently responsible for facilitating legal passage through the international boundary are the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). History 18th century The Treaty of Paris of 1783 ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States. In the second article of the Treaty, the parties agreed on all boundaries of the United States, including, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint John River (Bay Of Fundy)
The Saint John River (french: Fleuve Saint-Jean; Maliseet-Passamaquoddy: '' Wolastoq'') is a long river that flows from Northern Maine into Canada, and runs south along the western side of New Brunswick, emptying into the Atlantic Ocean in the Bay of Fundy. Eastern Canada's longest river, its drainage basin is one of the largest on the east coast at about . A part of the border between New Brunswick and Maine follows 130 km (80 miles) of the river. A tributary forms 55 km (35 miles) of the border between Quebec and Maine. New Brunswick settlements through which it passes include, moving downstream, Edmundston, Fredericton, Oromocto, and Saint John. It is regulated by hydro-power dams at Mactaquac, Beechwood, and Grand Falls, New Brunswick. Hydronym Samuel de Champlain visited the mouth of the river on the feast day of John the Baptist in 1604 and renamed it the Rivière Saint-Jean or Saint John River in English. Many waterways in the system retain their or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
