Bright Parish, New Brunswick

Bright is a civil parish in York County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2]

Bright
Parish
Location within York County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 46.18°N 67.10°W / 46.18; -67.10
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountyYork
Erected1869
Area
 • Land403.72 km2 (155.88 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total3,289
 • Density8.1/km2 (21/sq mi)
 • Change
2011-2016
 7.2%
 • Dwellings
1,440
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes it is divided between the local service districts of Keswick Ridge and the parish of Bright,[3] both of which are members of Regional Service Commission 11 (RSC11).[4]

Origin of name

The parish was named in honour of John Bright, recently appointed British President of the Board of Trade at the time.[5]

History

Bright was erected in 1869 from Douglas Parish.[6]

Delineation

Bright Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act[2] as being bounded:

Northwest by the County line; northeasterly by Douglas Parish; southeasterly by the Saint John River, and southwesterly by the northeast line of lot number fifty-nine, granted to Jonathan Williams, and its northwesterly prolongation to the County line.

Communities

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

Bodies of water

Bodies of water at least partly in the parish

  • Saint John River

Demographics

See also

References
  1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census Bright, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved October 8, 2019.
  2. "Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  3. "New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  4. "Communities in each of the 12 Regional Service Commissions (RSC) / Les communautés dans chacune des 12 Commissions de services régionaux (CSR)" (PDF), Government of New Brunswick, July 2017, retrieved 2 February 2021
  5. Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 222.
  6. "32 Vic. c. 49 An Act to erect part of the Parish of Douglas, in the County of York, 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 1869. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1869. pp. 94–95.
  7. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
  8. 2006 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Bright Parish, New Brunswick
  9. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Bright Parish, New Brunswick



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