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 km^2 (227.24 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
• Total	723
• Density	1.2/km^2 (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

Greenwich Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act as:

Communities

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

Bayard Blagdon Clarendon

Fowlers Corners Petersville Welsford

Wirral Station Wirral-Enniskillen

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[3] 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)[4] 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:^[5]

Highways Route 7

Principal Routes Route 101

None

External Routes: None

References

1. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Petersville Parish, New Brunswick
2. New Brunswick Provincial Archives - Petersville Parish
3. Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
4. Profile: Petersville Parish, New Brunswick
5. Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7

Coordinates: 45°32′15″N 66°21′24″W / 45.537618°N 66.356735°W