Grand Falls Parish, New Brunswick

This article is about the geographic parish, former local service district, and rural census subdivision. For the town, see Grand Falls, New Brunswick.

Parish in New Brunswick, Canada

Grand Falls

Parish

Location within Victoria County, New Brunswick.
map shows pre-1913 boundaries

Coordinates: 46°56′06″N 67°44′24″W﻿ / ﻿46.935°N 67.74°W﻿ / 46.935; -67.74
Country|  Canada
Province|  New Brunswick
County| Victoria
Erected| 1853
Area

[1]

• Land| 158.09 km2 (61.04 sq mi)
Population

(2021)[1]

• Total

| 1,077
• Density| 6.8/km2 (18/sq mi)
• Change 2016-2021

|  2.9%
• Dwellings

| 488
Time zone| UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)| UTC-3 (ADT)
Figures do not include portion within the town of Grand Falls

Grand Falls is a geographic parish in Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada;[2] the legal name in French is Grand-Sault,[3] the only parish with different legal English and French names.[a]

For governance purposes it is entirely within the town of Grand Falls,[4] which is a member of the Northwest Regional Service Commission.[5]

Prior to the 2023 governance reform, the town of Grand Falls was much smaller in area and the remainder of the parish formed the local service district of the parish of Grand Falls.[6]

The town of Grand Falls is treated separately from the parish in the Territorial Division Act,[2] the only instance of a municipality being separated from a parish. The town's modern municipal boundaries extend well beyond its description in the TDA.[7]

## Origin of name

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The parish was named for the waterfall located in the modern town of Grand Falls.[8]

## History

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Grand Falls was erected in 1853 from all of Andover Parish north of the Aroostook River and all of Perth Parish north of a line due east from the northwest angle of the Tobique Indian Reserve.[9] The parish included all or most of Denmark, Drummond, and Lorne Parishes, as well as parts of Gordon and Saint-André Parishes.

In 1862 the boundary with Saint-Léonard Parish was altered.[10]

In 1864 part of Grand Falls was included in the newly erected Gordon Parish, which included Lorne Parish.[11]

In 1872 all of Grand Falls east of the Saint John River was erected as Drummond Parish.[12]

In 1913 Grand Falls Parish was legally separated from the town of Grand Falls.[13]

## Boundaries

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Grand Falls Parish is bounded:[2][14][15][16]

* on the northeast and east by the Saint John River;
* on the south by the Aroostook River;
* on the west by the American border;
* excluding Grand Falls Town.[b] Grand Falls Town has much smaller boundaries than the municipality of Grand Falls,[17] containing only the Town Plat of Colebrook, which has Everard H. Daigle Boulevard and Harley Hill Street as its northern and southern boundaries and extends almost as far west as the end of Nowlan Street, and the Stewart Grant, which goes north about twice the distance between Everard H. Daigle Boulevard and Avenue 5ième and extends as far back as the junction of Caswell and Coldbrook Streets.

## Communities

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* Argosy
* Costigan
* Four Falls
* Gillespie Settlement
* Grand Falls Portage
* Limestone
* Lower California
* Lower Portage
* McCluskey
* Morrell
* Ortonville
* Upper California
* Grand Falls
* Colebrooke West

## Bodies of water

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Bodies of water[c] at least partly in the parish:[14][15][16]

* Aroostook River
* Saint John River
* Rapide de Femme
* Four Falls Stream
* Limestone Stream
* Costigan Lake
* McCullion Lake
* Mud Lake
* Piries Lake
* Round Lake

## Demographics

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Parish population total does not include portion within Grand Falls

### Population

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Population trend[18][19][20]

| Census  | Population  | Change (%)

|
|

2016  | 1,109  |  5.4%
2011  | 1,172  |  1.3%
2006  | 1,188  |  4.0%
2001  | 1,238  |  2.2%
1996  | 1,211  |  4.4%
1991  | 1,160  | N/A

### Language

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Mother tongue (2016)[20]

| Language  | Population  | Pct (%)

|
|

English only  | 700  | 63.4%
French only  | 385  | 34.8%
Both English and French  | 20  | 1.8%
Other languages  | 0  | 0%

## See also

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* List of parishes in New Brunswick

## Notes

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1. ^ Sainte-Marie Parish in Kent County is often written Saint Mary in English but this is not its legal form.
2. ^ This is the only instance in the Territorial Division Act where a town is legally separate from its parish.
3. ^ Not including brooks, ponds or coves.

## References

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1. ^ a b "Census Profile". Statistics Canada. 26 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
2. ^ a b c "Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
3. ^ "Chapitre T-3: Loi sur la division territoriale" (in French). Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
4. ^ "Northwest Regional Service Commission: RSC 1". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
5. ^ "Regions Regulation – Regional Service Delivery Act". Government of New Brunswick. 21 July 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
6. ^ "Local Service Districts Regulation - Municipalities Act". Government of New Brunswick. 25 June 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
7. ^ "Regulation 85-6 under the Municipalities Act (O. C. 85-45)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
8. ^ Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. pp. 236–237. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
9. ^ "15 Vic. c. 35 An Act to erect part of the Parish of Andover, the County of Victoria, into a separate Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1852. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1852. p. 55. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
10. ^ "25 Vic. c. 46 An Act to alter the Boundary Line between the Parishes of Grand Falls and Saint Leonard, in the County of Victoria.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in March and April 1862. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1862. p. 117. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
11. ^ "26 Vic. c. 44 An Act to erect parts of the Parishes of Grand Falls, Perth, and Saint Leonard, in the County of Victoria, into a separate Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Month of April, 1863. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1863. p. 101. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
12. ^ "35 Vic. c. 34 An Act to erect part of the Parish of Grand Falls in the County of Victoria, into a separate Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of April 1872. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1872. pp. 67–68. Available as a free ebook from Google Books.
13. ^ "2 Geo. V c. 4 An Act to amend Chapter 2 of the Consolidated Statutes, 1903, respecting the division of the province into counties, towns and parishes, so far as relates to the County of Victoria.". New Brunswick Acts of the Legislative Assembly Passed in the Months of March and April, 1912. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1912. pp. 22–24.
14. ^ a b "No. 54". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 23 June 2021. Remainder of parish on maps 63 and 72 at same site.
15. ^ a b "178" (PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 23 June 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 193, 208, and 223 at same site.
16. ^ a b "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)". Government of Canada. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
17. ^ "New Brunswick Regulation 85-6 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 85-45)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
18. ^ Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
19. ^ 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Grand Falls Parish, New Brunswick
20. ^ a b "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Grand Falls, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2 October 2019.

Places adjacent to Grand Falls Parish, New Brunswick

|  | Saint-André Parish (Madawaska County) | Drummond Parish

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Aroostook County, Maine
United States |

Grand Falls Parish

| Denmark Parish
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| Andover Parish | Perth Parish

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Subdivisions of New Brunswick

Cities|

* Bathurst
* Campbellton
* Dieppe
* Edmundston
* Fredericton
* Miramichi
* Moncton
* Saint John

Towns|

* Beaurivage
* Belle-Baie
* Cap-Acadie
* Caraquet
* Carleton North
* Champdoré
* Grand Bay–Westfield
* Grand Falls
* Grand-Bouctouche
* Hampton
* Hartland
* Hautes-Terres
* Heron Bay
* Île-de-Lamèque
* Oromocto
* Quispamsis
* Riverview
* Rivière-du-Nord
* Rothesay
* Saint-Quentin
* Salisbury
* Shediac
* Shippagan
* St. Andrews
* St. Stephen
* Sussex
* Tantramar
* Vallée-des-Rivières
* Woodstock

Villages|

* Arcadia
* Belledune
* Bois-Joli
* Doaktown
* Five Rivers
* Fredericton Junction
* Fundy Albert
* Fundy-St. Martins
* Grand Lake
* Grand Manan
* Lakeland Ridges
* McAdam
* Memramcook
* Neguac
* New Maryland
* Nouvelle-Arcadie
* Southern Victoria
* Three Rivers
* Tobique Valley
* Tracy
* Valley Waters

Regional municipality|

* Tracadie

Rural communities|

* Alnwick
* Butternut Valley
* Campobello Island
* Central York
* Eastern Charlotte
* Fundy Shores
* Hanwell
* Harvey
* Haut-Madawaska
* Kedgwick
* Maple Hills
* Miramichi River Valley
* Nackawic-Millville
* Nashwaak
* Strait Shores
* Sunbury-York South
* Upper Miramichi

Rural districts|

* Acadian Peninsula
* Capital Region
* Chaleur
* Fundy
* Greater Miramichi
* Kent
* Kings
* Northwest
* Restigouche
* Southeast
* Southwest
* Western Valley

Regional service commissions|

* Acadian Peninsula
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* Chaleur
* Fundy
* Greater Miramichi
* Kent
* Kings
* Northwest
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* Southeast
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* Western Valley

School districts|

* Anglophone North
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* Anglophone East
* Anglophone West
* Nord-Est
* Nord-Ouest
* Sud

Indian reserves|

* Big Hole Tract 8 (North Half)
* Big Hole Tract 8 (South Half)
* Buctouche 16
* Buctouche Micmac Band Extension
* Devon 30
* Eel Ground 2
* Eel River 3
* Esgenoôpetitj
* Fort Folly 1
* Indian Island 28
* Indian Point 1
* Indian Ranch
* Kingsclear 6
* Metepenagiag Urban Reserve 3
* Metepenagiag Urban Reserve 8
* Metepenagiag Uta'nk
* Moose Meadows 4
* Oinpegitjoig
* Oromocto 26
* Pabineau 11
* Pokemouche 13
* Red Bank 4
* Red Bank 7
* Renous 12
* Richibucto 15
* Soegao No. 35
* St Basile 10
* St. Mary's 24
* Tabusintac 9
* The Brothers 18
* Tobique 20
* Woodstock 23

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46°56′06″N 67°44′24″W﻿ / ﻿46.93500°N 67.74000°W﻿ / 46.93500; -67.74000﻿ (Grand Falls Parish, New Brunswick)
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