Saint-Hilaire is a
geographic parish in
Madawaska County,
New Brunswick
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,
Canada
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.
For governance purposes it is part of the
incorporated rural community of
Haut-Madawaska
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, which is a member of the
Northwest Regional Service Commission (NWRSC).
Origin of name
The parish takes its name from the local
Roman Catholic
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church.
History
Saint-Hilaire was erected as Saint Hilaire in 1877 from
Madawaska and
Saint-François Parishes.
In 1930
Baker Brook Parish was erected from the western part of Saint-Hilaire.
In 1946 Saint-Hilaire was affected by the major reorganisation of Madawaska County parish boundaries.
In 1973 the hyphen was finally added to the legal name.
[ The original printed version is cited separately to distinguish it from the updated version available online.]
Boundaries
Saint-Hilaire Parish is bounded:
[ Remainder of parish on map 33 at same site.][ Remainder of parish on mapbooks 120, 141, and 142 at same site.]
*on the north by the northern line of Six of the Riceville Settlement, which runs along the northern side of Guerrette Road, beginning on the northwestern corner of a grant about 1.6 kilometres east of the junction of Guerrette Road and Picard Road, then running easterly to the rear line of a tier of grants inland of the
Saint John River grants;
*on the east and south, running entirely along grant lines, southwesterly along the tier inland of the Saint John River to its westernmost corner, then southeasterly to the rear of the Saint John River grants, then southerly along the river grants to the junction of Alcide Collin Road and Riceville Road, which is on the northwestern corner of a grant to Alexander Ouellett, then easterly along the Ouellett grant to the
international border
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in the Saint John River, then upriver along the international border;
*on the west, running entirely along grant lines, beginning about 1.2 kilometres upriver of Long Street at the international border on the prolongation of the western line of a grant to Francis R. Martin, then running northerly to Elias Daigle Road, at the northern line of Tier Two of Ouellette Settlement, then westerly about 400 metres to the southwestern corner of a grant to Victori Albert, then northerly across Tiers Three and Four of Ouellette Settlement and Tiers Five and Six of Riceville Settlement to the starting point.
Communities
Communities at least partly within the parish;
*Riceville
*
Saint-Hilaire
**Albertine
Bodies of water
Bodies of water
[Not including brooks, ponds or coves.] at least partly in the parish:
*
Saint John River
Islands
Islands in the parish:
*Pine Island
Demographics
Parish population total does not include former incorporated village of
St. Hilaire
Population
Language
Well-known residents
*
Natasha St-Pier
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, singer
See also
*
List of parishes in New Brunswick
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Notes
References
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Parishes of Madawaska County, New Brunswick