Dumfries is a
geographic parish in
York County,
New Brunswick
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,
Canada
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.
Prior to the
2023 governance reform, for governance purposes it formed the
local service district Local service district may refer to these administrative units in Canada:
* 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 o ...
of the parish of Dumfries, which was a member of
Capital Region Service Commission (RSC11).
Origin of name
The parish may have been named in honour of Capt. Adam Allen, a
Loyalist
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born in
Dumfries, Scotland, who settled at the mouth of the Pokiok River.
History
Dumfries was erected in 1833 from
Prince William Parish. and that part of
Woodstock Parish south of the
Carleton County line.
In 1834 the county line was altered to follow grant lines when it neared the
Saint John River, transferring several small areas between Dumfries and Woodstock.
In 1836 the Saint John River islands in front of Dumfries were formally added to the parish, correcting an oversight in the legislation erecting Dumfries.
In 1850 Big and Little Coac Islands were removed from Dumfries.
In 1855 the western part of Dumfries was erected as
Canterbury Parish.
In 1895 the rear of Dumfries was included in the newly erected
McAdam Parish.
In 1973 the islands in the Saint John River were removed from the parish. The islands were flooded by the
Mactaquac Dam.
Boundaries
Dumfries Parish is bounded:
[ Remainder of parish on maps 125, 135, and 136 at same site.][ Remainder of parish on mapbooks 368, 387, 388, 406, and 407 at same site.]
* on the northeast by the
Saint John River;
* on the southeast by the southeastern line of a lot within a six-lot grant to St. Clement's Church in
Dumfries
Dumfries ( ; ; from ) is a market town and former royal burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, near the mouth of the River Nith on the Solway Firth, from the Anglo-Scottish border. Dumfries is the county town of the Counties of Scotland, ...
on the Saint John River, about 300 metres upriver of Rosborough Settlement Road, then along the prolongation of the grant line to the southern line of a grant to Arthur Henry on the western side of Duck Brook, west of
Magaguadavic Lake, then westerly to the southwestern corner of the Henry grant;
* on the southwest by a large grant to the
New Brunswick and Canada Railway and Land Company northeast of
McAdam, then northerly along the railway grant and the prolongation of its eastern line to Shogomoc Lake, then running north-northwesterly along grant lines to a point about 825 metres east of Moon Pond;
* on the northwest by a line paralleling the southeastern line of the parish from east of Moon Pond to the southwestern corner of a grant to John Benn, which straddles Allandale Road, then along the Benn grant to the Saint John River.
Governance
The entire parish forms the local service district of the parish of Dumfries, established in 1966 to assess for fire protection. Community services were added to the assessment in 1967 and first aid and ambulance services in 1978.
Communities
Communities at least partly within the parish.
''italics'' indicate a name no longer in official use
* Allandale
* Barony
* ''Carson''
* Davidson Lake
*
Dumfries
*
Hawkshaw
* ''Murray''
*
Pokiok
Bodies of water
Bodies of water
[Not including brooks, ponds or coves.] at least partly within the parish.
*
Saint John River
** Coac Reach
** Nackawic Bend
** Pokiok Reach
* Little Pokiok Stream
* Pokiok Stream
** Big Deadwater
*
Little Magaguadavic Throughway
*
Little Magaguadavic Lake
*
Magaguadavic Lake
* more than ten other officially named lakes
Other notable places
Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish.
* Pokiok Stream Protected Natural Area
Demographics
Population
Population trend
[Statistics 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 ...
, 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 ...
, 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 ...
Notes
References
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Parishes of York County, New Brunswick
Local service districts of York County, New Brunswick