Rogersville is a former village in Northumberland County,

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, built around the Intersection of

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and New Brunswick Route 440. It was an incorporated village until the end of 2022 and is now part of the village of

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History

The village is named in honour of the

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, the Most Reverend James Rogers, late Bishop of

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. Rogersville is the home of two

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(Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance)

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, Notre-Dame de l'Assomption Abbey (Our Lady of the Assumption Abbey for women) and Notre Dame du Calvaire Abbey (Our Lady of Calvary Abbey for men). It is also the burial place of the man considered the Father of Modern Acadia—(Bishop) Monseigneur Marcel-Francois Richard, and the site of a monument containing his sarcophagus. On 1 January 2023, Rogersville annexed all or part of seven local service districts to form the new village of

. The community's name remains in official use.

Present day

It is served by

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's train the ''

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'' which stops at the Rogersville railway station.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Rogersville 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. 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 Income (2015) Mother tongue (2016)

Places of note

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store * Ocean Spray Cranberry Fields

Border communities

* Acadie Siding * Pleasant Ridge * Collette * Shediac Ridge * Saint-Athanase * Saint-Pierre * Sapin-Court * Young Ridge

Notable people

References

External links

Official website
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