Saint-Léonard Parish, New Brunswick

Saint-Léonard St. Leonard
Parish
Location within Madawaska County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 47°14′06″N 67°48′00″W / 47.235°N 67.8°W / 47.235; -67.8
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	Madawaska
Established	1850
Area[1]
• Land	343.97 km2 (132.81 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
• Total	1,052
• Density	3.1/km2 (8/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	1.3%
• Dwellings	400
Time zone	AST (UTC-4)
• Summer (DST)	ADT (UTC-3)

Saint-Léonard is a Canadian parish in Madawaska County, New Brunswick.^[2]

Delineation

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

Bounded easterly by the Victoria County line; southwesterly by the St. John River and northwesterly by the following described line:

Beginning at a point in the International Boundary line where the same is intersected by the western prolongation of the south limit of lot No. 99, granted to Andrew Michaud; thence in an easterly direction along said prolongation and said limit of said lot, the eastern prolongation of same and the south limit of lot No. 281, granted to Rosomo Violette, and its eastern prolongation to a point in the eastern bank or shore of the Grand River;^{[lower-alpha 1]} thence in a northerly direction along said bank or shore of said river to a point where the same is intersected by the west limit of lot No. 218, granted to Wm. Byram; thence in a southerly direction along said limit of said lot to the southwest angle of the same; thence in an easterly and southerly direction following the south limit of Tier One, south of the aforesaid Grand River, to the southeast angle of lot No. 272, granted to A. Dube; thence in an easterly direction along the division line between the Second Tract and the Fourth Tract West, granted to the New Brunswick Railway Company, and the eastern prolongation of same to a point in the aforesaid Victoria County line, including the Islands in front, but excepting therefrom the Parish of Saint-André.

Communities

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

Demographics

Population Population trend[5] Census Population Change (%) 2006 1,039 2.0% 2001 1,060 5.5% 1996 1,122 14.8% 1991 977 N/A

Language Mother tongue language (2006)[6] Language Population Pct (%) French only 960 93.66% Both English and French 25 2.44% Other languages 25 2.44% English only 15 1.46%

See also

• List of parishes in New Brunswick

Footnotes

References

Coordinates: 47°14′06″N 67°48′00″W / 47.23500°N 67.80000°W / 47.23500; -67.80000 (Saint-Léonard Parish, New Brunswick)