Saint-Paul is a
geographic parish in
Kent County,
New Brunswick
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,
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.
For governance purposes, most of the parish is within the town of
Champdoré, with a strip along the northern boundary in the village of
Five Rivers and the southeastern corner part of the
incorporated rural community of
Maple Hills.
Champdoré and Five Rivers belong to the Kent Regional Service Commission, while Maple Hills belongs to the Southeast RSC.
Prior to the
2023 governance reform, the parish 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 Saint-Paul.
Origin of name
The parish may have taken its name from the
Roman Catholic
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ecclesiastical parish.
History
Saint-Paul was erected in 1888 from all of
Sainte-Marie Parish west of McLaughlin Road.
Boundaries
Saint-Paul Parish is bounded:
[ Remainder of parish on map 109 at same site.][ Remainder of parish on mapbooks 285, 300, 301, 317, and 318 at same site.]
*on the north by the prolongation of a line running south 68º west from the mouth of the Rivière Chockpish-nord to the
Canadian National Railway
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line running alongside
Route 126;
*on the east by
Route 490;
*on the south by the
Westmorland County line;
*on the west by the CNR line running alongside Route 126.
Governance
The entire parish forms 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 Saint-Paul, established in 1966 to assess for fire protection. Community services were added in 1987, recreational and sports facilities in 2008, and non-fire related rescue in 2015. First aid and ambulance services (1982–2008) were formerly included.
Communities
Communities at least partly within the parish;
''italics'' indicate a name no longer in official use
*
Birch Ridge
*Bon-Secours
*Gladeside
*
Hébert
*Légerville
*McLean Settlement
*
Saint-Paul
*Sweeneyville
*Terrains de L'Évêque
*''Val-Richard''
*Village-des-Belliveau
*Village-des-Cormier
*Village-des-Léger
Bodies of water
Bodies of water
[Not including brooks, ponds or coves.] at least partly in the parish:
*
Buctouche River
*Cocagne River
*Lac de Bon-Secours
Other notable places
Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly in the parish.
* McLean Settlement 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
External links
Saint-Paul LSD
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Local service districts of Kent County, New Brunswick
Geography of Kent County, New Brunswick