New Bandon Parish, New Brunswick

New Bandon
Parish

Location within Gloucester County, New Brunswick
Coordinates: 47°45′00″N 65°18′54″W / 47.75°N 65.315°W / 47.75; -65.315
Country  Canada
Province  New Brunswick
County Gloucester
Established 1831
Area[1]
 • Land 369.58 km2 (142.70 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
 • Total 1,195
 • Density 3.2/km2 (8/sq mi)
 • Pop 2006-2011 Decrease 16.0%
 • Dwellings 710
Time zone AST (UTC-4)
 • Summer (DST) ADT (UTC-3)

New Bandon Parish is a Canadian parish in Gloucester County, New Brunswick.[2] It was named after the town of Bandon in Ireland. Within the parish is the rural community of New Bandon, which lies between Pokeshaw on the east, and Stonehaven on the west.

Delineation

New Bandon Parish[lower-alpha 1] is defined in the Territorial Division Act[3] as being bounded:

North and east by Chaleur Bay and Caraquet Bay; west by Bathurst Parish; south by the south branch of the Caraquet River[lower-alpha 2] extending from its mouth, upstream to the mouth of Innishannon Brook; thence in a southwesterly, westerly and southerly direction along the bounds of the Paquetville Parish and the bounds of Saint-Isidore Parish to a point in the east limit of Bathurst Parish.

Communities

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

Demographics

Population

Population trend[4]

Census Population Change (%)
2006 1,422 Decrease3.8%
2001 1,478 Decrease8.8%
1996 1,621 Decrease7.1%
1991 1,744 N/A

Language

Mother tongue language (2006)[5]

Language Population Pct (%)
French only 765 53.87%
English only 635 44.72%
Both English and French 20 1.41%
Other languages 0 0.00%

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The 1973 Territorial Division Act misspells the name New Brandon Parish; the name is spelt correctly in other modern government sources and in earlier versions of the Act.
  2. ↑ Southwest Caraquet River, now officially the Rivière Caraquet; the former Northwest Caraquet River is now Rivière du Nord.

References

  1. 1 2 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: New Bandon Parish, New Brunswick
  2. ↑ New Brunswick Provincial Archives - New Bandon Parish
  3. ↑ "Territorial Division Act (R.S.N.B. 1973, c. T-3)". Government of New Brunswick website. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  4. ↑ Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
  5. ↑ 2006 Statistics Canada Community Profile: New Bandon Parish, New Brunswick


 Chaleur Bay
Bathurst Parish Caraquet Bay
   New Bandon Parish  
Allardville Parish Paquetville Parish Caraquet Parish


Coordinates: 47°45′00″N 65°18′54″W / 47.75000°N 65.31500°W / 47.75000; -65.31500 (New Bandon Parish, New Brunswick)

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