Sackville Parish

This article is about the geographic parish, former local service district, and rural census subdivision. For the former town, see Sackville, New Brunswick. For other uses, see Sackville (disambiguation).

Sackville is a geographic parish in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada.^[4]

Sackville
Parish
Location within Westmorland County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 46.19°N 64.60°W / 46.19; -64.60
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	Westmorland County
Erected	1786
Area [1]
• Land	578.90 km2 (223.51 sq mi)
Lowest elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Population  (2021)[1]
• Total	1,204
• Density	2.1/km2 (5/sq mi)
• Change 2016-2021	1.9%
• Dwellings	549
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)
Area code	506
Figures do not include portions within the town of Sackville and the rural community of Beaubassin East

For governance purposes it is divided between the town of Tantramar, the incorporated rural community of Strait Shores,^[5] and the Southeast rural district,^[6] with small border areas belonging to the town of Cap-Acadie.^[a] All are members of the Southeast Regional Service Commission.^[7]

Prior to the 2023 governance reform, the parish was divided between the town of Sackville^[8] and the local service district of the parish of Sackville,^[9] with a small area in the northeast part of the rural community of Beaubassin East.^[10]

Origin of name

The parish was named in honour of Lord George Sackville,^[11] later Secretary of State for the Colonies.

History

Sackville was established in 1772 as a Nova Scotia township.^[12]

Sackville was erected as one of Westmorland County's original parishes in 1786^[13] with enlarged boundaries; most of the modern town of Shediac was added.

In 1827 the northern part of Sackville was included in the newly erected Shediac Parish.^[14]

In 1880 the boundary with Westmorland Parish was altered, adding a large inland area to Sackville.^[15]

In 1894 the existing boundaries were made retroactive to the erection of the parish.^[16]

Boundaries

Sackville Parish is bounded:^[2][17][18]

• on the north by the prolongation of a line running south 83º 45' east^[b] from the southern side of the mouth of Fox Creek, beginning about 5.75 kilometres past the Memramcook River and running easterly to a point about 200 metres east of Chemin des Moulins in Saint-André-LeBlanc;
• on the northeast by a line running north 38º 30' west^[c] from the southeast angle of lot number one, granted to Otho Reed, at the mouth of Gaspereau Creek in Port Elgin;
• on the southeast by a line beginning about 8 kilometres southeasterly of Route 940, then running south 45º west^[d] to Brooklyn Road, then turning slightly more westerly and running to Robinson Brook, then down Robinson Brook and Goose Creek to Big Jolicure Lake, then through the lake to a point on the western shore about 1.6 kilometres southeast of Brooklyn Road, then south 57º 30' west^[d] to the prolongation of Route 940 and Goose Lake Road, then south-southeasterly along the Goose Lake Road prolongation to the Aulac River, then downstream to the Cumberland Basin;
• on the south by the Cumberland Basin and Chignecto Bay;
• on the west by Shepody Bay and a line beginning at the junction of Ralph Stiles Road and Route 935 and running northeasterly 102 chains (about 2.1 kilometres) along the southeastern line of a grant to John Sherwood and its prolongation to a point about 100 metres south of Route 106, then running north 11º east^[e] to the starting point.

Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish.^[17][18][25] bold indicates an incorporated municipality or rural community

• Aboushagan Road
• Anderson Settlement
• Beaubassin East
• British Settlement
• Brooklyn
• Brooklyn Road
• Centre Village
• Cherry Burton
• Coles Island
• Cookville
• Evans
• Fairfield
• Johnson's Mills
• Lower Rockport
• Midgic
• Mount View
• Rockport
• Upper Rockport
• Upper Sackville
• Ward
• West Sackville
• Westcock
• Wood Point
• Woodhurst
• Sackville
  • Frosty Hollow
  • Middle Sackville
  • Ogden Mill

Bodies of water

Bodies of water^[f] at least partly within the parish.^[17][18][25]

• Aulac River
• Gaspereau River
• South Branch Memramcook River
• Tantramar River
• Log Lake Stream
• Allen Creek
• Goose Creek
• Green Creek
• Harvey Creek
• Johnson Creek
• Morice Creek
• Wood Creek
• Cumberland Basin
• Chignecto Bay
• Shepody Bay
• Pink Rock Lake
• more than ten other officially named lakes

Other notable places

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish.^{[17][18][25][26]}

• Johnson's Mills Protected Natural Area

Demographics

Parish population total does not include town of Sackville and portion within Beaubassin East

Population Historical populations: Sackville Parish, NB Year Pop. ±% 1991 1,237 —     1996 1,237 +0.0% 2001 1,266 +2.3% 2006 1,174 −7.3% 2011 1,336 +13.8% 2016 1,182 −11.5% [27][28][29]

Language Mother tongue (2016)[29] Language Population Pct (%) English only 1,105 93.2% French only 60 5.1% Both English and French 0 0% Other languages 20 1.7%

Access routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:^[30]

Highways Route 2 (TCH) Route 16 (TCH)

Principal Routes Route 106

Secondary Routes: Route 935 Route 940

External Routes: None

See also

• List of parishes in New Brunswick

Notes

1. Maps still visible as thumbnails show the current and previous governance boundaries.^[5]
2. By the magnet of 1894,^[16] when declination in the area was between 21º and 22º west of north.^[19] The Territorial Division Act clause referring to magnetic direction bearings was omitted in the 1952^[20] and 1973 Revised Statutes.^[2]
3. By the magnet of 1867,^[16] when declination in the area was between 21º and 22º west of north.^[21]
4. By the magnet of 1880,^[15] when declination in the area was between 22º and 23º west of north.^[22]
5. By the magnet of 1765,^[23] when declination in the area was a bit more than 14º west of north.^[24]
6. Not including brooks, ponds or coves.