Acadieville is a
geographic parish in
Kent County,
New Brunswick
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,
Canada
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.
For governance purposes it is almost entirely within the village of
Nouvelle-Arcadie
Nouvelle-Arcadie is a village in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It was formed through the 2023 New Brunswick local governance reform
Local governance reform in the Canadian province of New Brunswick was implemented on January 1, 2 ...
,
with a small area on the eastern boundary part of the Kent rural district, both of which are members of the Kent Regional Service Commission.
Prior to the
2023 governance reform, the parish was divided between the village of
Rogersville and the
local service district Local service district may refer to these administrative units in Canada:
* Local service district (New Brunswick)
A local service district (LSD) was a provincial administrative unit for the provision of local services in the Canadian province o ...
of the parish of Acadieville, which included an area with reduced services named Acadie Siding.
Origin of name
William F. Ganong considered the name's origin to be obviously from ''Acadie''.
History
Acadieville was erected in 1876 from
Carleton Parish.
Acadieville Parish was first settled in 1868 by
Acadian
The Acadians (; , ) are an ethnic group descended from the French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries. Today, most descendants of Acadians live in either the Northern American region of Acadia, ...
settlers who rushed to claim the provincial
Crown Lands
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after it was revealed that the surveyed route for the
Intercolonial Railway
The Intercolonial Railway of Canada , also referred to as the Intercolonial Railway (ICR), was a historic Canada, Canadian railway that operated from 1872 to 1918, when it became part of Canadian National Railways. As the railway was also compl ...
would pass through the area.
In 1869, the Intercolonial Railway's route was modified and it was constructed approximately 10 kilometres to the west.
Boundaries
Acadieville Parish is bounded:
[ Remainder of parish on maps 78, 79, 80, and 88 at same site.][ Remainder of parish on mapbooks 221, 234–236, 250, and 251 at same site.]
*on the northwest by the
Northumberland County line;
*on the east by the eastern line of a grant in Saint-Luc prolonged southerly to the
Saint-Louis Parish line and northerly to the Northumberland County line;
*on the southeast by a line running south 75º 30' west from the corner of a grant west of
Route 11 near Saint-Théodule in
Saint-Louis Parish to the northern line of
Weldford Parish, at a point about 3.25 kilometres west of
Route 126;
*on the south by the northern line of Weldford Parish, which is a line due west from the northernmost corner of the
Richibucto 15 Indian reserve
In Canada, an Indian reserve () or First Nations reserve () is defined by the '' Indian Act'' as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band." ...
;
*on the west by a line running north 22º west, based on the magnet of 1867, from a point on the
Westmorland County line west of the northern tip of Shediac Island.
Communities
Communities at least partly within the parish;
bold indicates a municipality
*
Acadie Siding
*
Acadieville
*Barrieau
*Block 14
*
Centre-Acadie
*
Noinville
*Pineau
*Richard-Village
*
Rogersville
*Saint-Athanase
*Saint-Luc
*Vautour
*Village-Saint-Jean
*Village-Saint-Pierre
Bodies of water
Bodies of water
[Not including brooks, ponds or coves.] at least partly in the parish:
*
Barnaby River The Barnaby River is a tributary of the Miramichi River in New Brunswick, Canada.
The Barnaby River rises in southern Northumberland County, close to the Kent County, New Brunswick boundary and flows north and west into the south side of the South ...
*Bay du Vin River
*
Kouchibouguac River :''There is another Kouchibouguac River that empties into the Northumberland Strait at Beaubassin East in New Brunswick.''
The Kouchibouguac River is a river in eastern New Brunswick, Canada, which empties into the Northumberland Strait. It is 72 ...
Demographics
Population totals do not include the village of
Rogersville. Revised census figures based on the 2023 local governance reforms have not been released.
Population
Population trend
[Statistics Canada: ]1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
, 2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
, 2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
Events
January
* January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute.
* January 12 – A stampede during t ...
census
Language
Mother tongue (2016)
See also
*
List of parishes in New Brunswick
The Canadian province of New Brunswick is divided by the ''Territorial Division Act'' into 152 Parish (administrative division), geographic parishes, units which had political significance as subdivisions of County, counties until the Municipaliti ...
Notes
References
External links
Official Website (french)
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Parishes of Kent County, New Brunswick
Populated places established in 1868
Local service districts of Kent County, New Brunswick