Rogersville, New Brunswick

Rogersville
Location of Rogersville in New Brunswick

Rogersville (2006 population: 1,165) is a Canadian village in Northumberland County, New Brunswick.

Rogersville is the home of two Trappist (Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance) monasteries, 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). The village is named in honour of the Roman Catholic Bishop, the Most Reverend James Rogers, late Bishop of Chatham, NB.

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.

It is served by Via Rail's train the Ocean which stops at the Rogersville railway station.

Rogersville shares a border with nearby Weldford Parish, New Brunswick

Places of Note

Border Communities

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