Kars Parish, New Brunswick

Kars is a civil parish in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2]

This article is about the parish. For the community, see Kars, New Brunswick.
Kars
Parish
Location within Kings County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 45.84°N 64.59°W / 45.84; -64.59
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountyKings County
Erected1860
Area
 • Land75.84 km2 (29.28 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total325
 • Density4.3/km2 (11/sq mi)
 • Change 2011-2016
 20.1%
 • Dwellings
352
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes it forms the local service district of the parish of Kars,[3] which is a member of Regional Service Commission 8 (RSC8).[4]

Origin of name

The parish was named for the Siege of Kars, last major operation of the Crimean War.[5]

History

Kars was erected in 1860 from Greenwich and Springfield Parishes.[6]

In 1877 the islands in Belleisle Bay were added to Kars.[7]

Delineation

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

West by the Saint John River; east by the eastern side lines of lots number ten, granted to Richard B. Squires, number one, granted to William McDonald, and number seven, granted to James Peters; and south by Belleisle Bay, including the islands at the mouth of Belleisle Bay.

Governance

The entire parish forms the local service district of the parish of Kars, established in 1968 to assess for fire protection. Recreational facilities were added in 2001 and non-fire related rescue in 2012. First aid and ambulance services (1972—2001) and community services (1986—2001) were formerly included.

Communities

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

Bodies of water & Islands

This is a list of rivers, lakes, streams, creeks, marshes and Islands that are at least partially in this parish

  • Hog Island

Other Islands: Pig Island, Ghost Island

Main Water Sources: Belleisle Bay, Saint John River

Coves: Tennants Cove, Jenkins Cove, Urquharts Cove, Earle Cove

Demographics

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[10]

See also

References
  1. "Census Profile, 2016 Census Kars, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved September 20, 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 19 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. 242.
  6. "22 Vic. c. 51 An Act to erect parts of the Parishes of Greenwich and Springfield, in King's County, into a separate Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in March and April 1859. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1859. pp. 129–130.
  7. "Chapter 2 The Division of the Province into Counties, Towns, and Parishes.". The Consolidated Statutes of New Brunswick. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1877. pp. 56–85.
  8. Statistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census
  9. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Kars Parish, New Brunswick
  10. Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7



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