Drummond Parish, New Brunswick
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Drummond is a geographic parish in Victoria County,
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. For governance purposes it is divided between the town of Grand Falls, the town of Vallée-des-Rivières, and the Northwest rural district, both of which are members of the Northwest Regional Service Commission. Prior to the 2023 governance reform, for governance purposes it was divided between the village of Drummond, the town of Grand Falls, and the local service district of the parish of Drummond.


Origin of name

The parish may have been named in honour of General Sir Gordon Drummond, former Governor General of the Canadas. Drummond was originally a neighbour of Gordon Parish before the erections of
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and Lorne Parishes.


History

Drummond was erected in 1872 from Grand Falls Parish. It included Denmark Parish. In 1875 the county line was altered and part of Drummond was transferred to Victoria County. In 1927 the area within the municipal limits of the town of Grand Falls was removed from Drummond. In 1936 much of Drummond was erected as Denmark Parish. Three months later the inland boundary was simplified, returning part of Denmark to Drummond. In 1955 part of Drummond was added to the town of Grand Falls.


Boundaries

Drummond Parish is bounded: Remainder of parish on maps 23, 35, 36, 45, 46, 54, and 63 at same site. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 082, 101–103, 123–125, 145, 146, 162, 163, 178, 179, and 193 at same site. * on the northeast by the Restigouche County line, running about 33 kilometres southeasterly from the northernmost point of Victoria County; * on the southeast by a line beginning on the Restigouche County line at the prolongation of the southeastern line of the Fourth Tract of lands granted to the New Brunswick Railway Company, then running southwesterly along the prolongation, the Fourth Tract, and the First Tract to the northeastern line of the Seventh Tract, then southeasterly about 5.6 kilometres along the Seventh Tract and its prolongation to the prolongation of the southeastern line of Range 2 of the Burgess Settlement, then about 15 kilometres southwesterly, southeasterly, and southwesterly along the Burgess Settlement, Ennishone Settlement, and Block 52 to strike the Salmon River opposite the end of the Salmon River Road south of Davis Mill, then downstream to about 1.5 kilometres past Mill Hill Road to meet the southeastern line of a grant to John King, then southwesterly along the King grant past Route 105 to the northernmost corner of a grant to Lyman Whitehead, then southeasterly about 500 metres along the Whitehead grant, then southwesterly to the Saint John River at a point about 700 metres south of the mouth of Salmon River; * on the west by the Saint John River; * on the west by the Madawaska County line, running north-northeasterly and then true north to the starting point, the meeting point of Restigouche, Madawaska, and Victoria Counties; *excepting the Mill Lease of the War Department Lands,The exact location of the Mill Lease is not stated and doesn't appear on cadastral or highway maps. which are part of Grand Falls Town.This is the only instance in the Territorial Division Act where an incorporated town appears; Grand Falls town in the Territorial Division Act is much smaller in area than the modern municipality of Grand Falls


Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish. bold indicates an incorporated municipality * Black Brook * Burgess Settlement * Caldwell * Canton * Davis Mill * Desjardins Road * Drummond ** Price Road * Ennishone * Grand Falls * Hennigar Corner * Jardine Brook * McManus Siding * Quatre-Coins * Undine * Violette Brook * Violette Station


Bodies of water

Bodies of waterNot including brooks, ponds or coves. at least partly within the parish. * Grande Rivière * Little River * Little Main Restigouche River * Saint John River * Salmon River * Lac à Minet * Basley Lake * Gounamitz Lake * Gull Lake * Hammond Lake * Little Barkerhouse Lake * Ryan Brook Lake * Stony Lake


Other notable places

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish. * Boston Brook Airstrip * Burgess Settlement Protected Natural Area * Grand Falls Airport * Petit Sault


Demographics

Parish population totals do not include village of Drummond and portion within Grand Falls


Population

Population trendStatistics Canada:
1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
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2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
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2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...
census


Language

Mother tongue (2016)


See also

*
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 Municipaliti ...
* Little Main Restigouche River * Gounamitz River


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