Petersville is a
geographic parish in
Queens County,
New Brunswick
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,
Canada
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.
Prior to the
2023 governance reform, for governance purposes it was divided between
CFB Gagetown
5th Canadian Division Support Base (5 CDSB) Gagetown, formerly known as and commonly referred to as CFB Gagetown, is a large Canadian Forces Base covering an area over , located in southwestern New Brunswick. It is the biggest facility in East ...
and the
local service districts of
Wirral-Enniskillen and the parish of Petersville. Wirral-Enniskillen was part of
Capital Region Service Commission (RSC11) and Petersville Parish was part of the
Fundy Regional Service Commission (FRSC).
Origin of name
William Francis Ganong states that the parish was named in honour of
Harry Peters, then
Speaker of the
House of Assembly
House of Assembly is a name given to the legislature or lower house of a bicameral parliament. In some countries this may be at a subnational level.
Historically, in British Crown colonies as the colony gained more internal responsible g ...
. Peters' tenure as Speaker actually ended in 1827 but he continued to serve as MLA until 1843. Harry's brother
Charles Jeffery Peters was
Attorney General of New Brunswick when the parish was erected.
History
Petersville was erected in 1838 from
Gagetown and
Hampstead Parishes.
Much of the parish was expropriated in 1953 for the creation of CFB Gagetown.
Boundaries
Petersville Parish is bounded:
[ Remainder of parish on maps 147–149, 155, 156, and 163 at same site.][ Remainder of parish on mapbooks 429, 443–445, 458–460, 471, and 472 at same site.]
* on the northeast and east within CFB Gagetown
[Roads still appear on cadastral maps but not in highway mapbooks; because the old roads and grants are used in the Territorial Division Act they're used here.] by a line beginning at the prolongation of the southwestern line of a grant to Thomas T. Hewlett at the corner of Lawfield and Kerr Roads in Summer Hill, then southwesterly following Lawfield Road to the westernmost corner of a grant to Henry Appleby, then southeasterly along the prolongation of the northeastern line of a grant to Sylvanus Haviland to its easternmost corner, then southwest to the Yorkshire Road, then along Yorkshire Road to the
Kings County line;
* on the southeast by the Kings County line;
* on the southwest by the
Charlotte County line;
* on the northwest by the
Sunbury County line.
Communities
Communities at least partly within the parish.
''italics'' indicate a community expropriated for
CFB Gagetown
5th Canadian Division Support Base (5 CDSB) Gagetown, formerly known as and commonly referred to as CFB Gagetown, is a large Canadian Forces Base covering an area over , located in southwestern New Brunswick. It is the biggest facility in East ...
* ''Armstrong Corner''
* Bayard
* ''Blakely''
* Clarendon
* ''Clones''
* ''Cootes Hill''
* ''Dunns Corner''
*
Enniskillen
* ''Ferris''
* ''Fowlers Corners''
* ''Headline''
* ''Loisville''
* ''Olinville''
* ''Petersville''
* ''South Clones''
* ''Summer Hill''
* ''Vincent''
*
Welsford
* ''West Jerusalem''
*
Wirral
* Wirral Station
Bodies of water
Bodies of water
[Not including brooks, ponds or coves.] at least partly within the parish.
* River George
* West Branch Musquash River
* Brittain Stream
* Crystal Stream
* Cunningham Creek
* more than fifteen officially named lakes
Other notable places
Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish.
*
CFB Gagetown
5th Canadian Division Support Base (5 CDSB) Gagetown, formerly known as and commonly referred to as CFB Gagetown, is a large Canadian Forces Base covering an area over , located in southwestern New Brunswick. It is the biggest facility in East ...
* Lepreau River Wildlife Management Area
* Loch Alva Protected Natural Area
Demographics
Population
Population trend
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
*External Routes:
**None
Notes
References
External links
Petersville Local Service District-LSD
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Parishes of Queens County, New Brunswick
Local service districts of Queens County, New Brunswick