Denmark Parish, New Brunswick

Denmark is a civil parish in Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2]

This article is about the parish. For the community, see New Denmark, New Brunswick.
Denmark
Parish
Location within Victoria County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 47.0°N 67.585°W / 47.0; -67.585
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountyVictoria
Erected1936
Area
 • Land751.27 km2 (290.07 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total1,471
 • Density2.0/km2 (5/sq mi)
 • Change
2011-2016
 7.6%
 • Dwellings
733
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes it is divided between the Indian reserve of Tobique 20 and the local service district of the parish of Denmark,[3] the latter of which is a member of the Northwest Regional Service Commission (NWRSC).[4]

Origin of name

The parish was named for the community of New Denmark.[5]

History of name

Denmark was erected in 1936 from Drummond Parish.[6] Three months later the inland boundary was simplified, returning territory to Drummond.[7]

Delineation

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

Westerly and northwesterly by the Saint John River and a line beginning on the eastern bank or shore of the Saint John River at the most southern angle of a tract of land granted to Lyman Whitehead near the mouth of the Salmon River, thence following the southeastern and northeastern sidelines of said tract of land and the southeastern sideline of the John King tract in a northeasterly direction to where it intersects the aforementioned Salmon River, thence following the various courses of the said Salmon River upstream to where it intersects the sideline between lot number one hundred thirty-two (132), granted to Michael Parron and lot number one hundred thirty-four (134), granted to G.C. Poitras in Block fifty-two (52), thence northeasterly along the last mentioned sideline and its prolongation to the southwest line of lot number seventeen (17) in Range Three (3), thence northwesterly to the most westerly angle of said lot seventeen (17), thence northeasterly along the base line of said lot and its prolongation to the southwesterly line of the first tract of land granted to the New Brunswick Railway Company, thence northwesterly along the line of the said tract to the point where the prolongation of the most easterly boundary line of the Fourth Tract of the said New Brunswick Railway Company land meets the said southwesterly line of the First Tract aforesaid, thence northeasterly along the said prolongation of the most easterly boundary of the Fourth Tract, the said most easterly boundary itself, and the further prolongation thereof to the southwesterly limit of Restigouche County; northeasterly by Restigouche County; easterly by Lorne and Gordon Parishes; and south by Perth Parish.

Communities

Bodies of water

Bodies of water at least partly in the parish

  • Saint John River

Demographics

See also

References
  1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census Denmark, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved October 2, 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 23 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. "Denmark Parish". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  6. "25 Geo. V c. 19 An Act To Amend Chapter 2, of The Revised Statutes, 1927, So As To Divide the Parish of Drummond in the County of Victoria.". Acts of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick Passed During the Session of 1935. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1935. pp. 160–164.
  7. "1 Edward VIII c. 54 An Act to amend Chapter 19 of 25 George V (1935), to correct the Dividing Line between the Parish of Drummond and the Parish of Denmark, in the County of Victoria.". Acts of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick Passed During the Session of 1936. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1936. pp. 241–242.
  8. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
  9. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Denmark Parish, New Brunswick



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