Petersville Parish, New Brunswick

Petersville
Parish
Location within Queens County, New Brunswick.
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	Queens County
Established	1838
Area[1]
• Land	588.56 km2 (227.24 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
• Total	723
• Density	1.2/km2 (3/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	4.6%
• Dwellings	326
Time zone	AST (UTC-4)
• Summer (DST)	ADT (UTC-3)

Petersville is a Canadian parish in Queens County, New Brunswick.^[2]

History

Greenwich Parish erected from Hampstead Parish and Gagetown Parish in 1838: named for Henry Peters, speaker of the New Brunswick house of the Assembly.

Delineation

Petersville Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act^[3] as being bounded:

Being all that part of the County southwest of a line beginning where the road from Jones’ mill^{[lower-alpha 1]} crosses the County line; thence northerly along the said road to the northwest line of lot number one, granted to John Short; thence northeasterly along the same to the northeast line of lot number five, granted to Sylvanus Haviland; thence northwesterly along the same and its northwestern prolongation to the southeast line of lands granted to James Corbett; thence northeasterly along the same to the southwest line of the grant to Henry Appleby; thence northwesterly along the same to the Gagetown Road;^{[lower-alpha 2]} thence northeasterly along the same to the northeast line of lot number twenty-five, granted to T.T. Hewlett, and thence northwesterly along the same and its northwestern prolongation to the Sunbury County line.

Communities

Parish population total does not include incorporated municipalities (in bold).

Bodies of water & Islands

This is a list of rivers, lakes, streams, creeks, marshes and Islands that are at least partially in this parish:

• None

Demographics

Population Population trend[4] Census Population Change (%) 2011 N/A 2006 2053 3.7% 2001 2131 0.0% 1996 0.0% 1991 N/A

Language Mother tongue language (2006)[5] Language Population Pct (%) French only % English only % Both English and French 0 0.00% Other languages 0 0.00%

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:^[6]

Footnotes

References

External links

• Petersville Local Service District-LSD

Coordinates: 45°32′15″N 66°21′24″W / 45.537618°N 66.356735°W / 45.537618; -66.356735 (Petersville Parish, New Brunswick)