Denmark Parish, New Brunswick

Denmark is a civil parish[lower-alpha 1] in Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2]

Denmark
Parish
Location within Victoria County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 47.0°N 67.585°W / 47.0; -67.585
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	Victoria
Established	1935
Area [1]
• Land	751.27 km^2 (290.07 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[1]
• Total	1,471
• Density	2.0/km^2 (5/sq mi)
• Change 2011-2016	7.6%
• Dwellings	733
Time zone	UTC-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]

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

Foley Brook Lake Edward Lerwick New Denmark

North Tilley Salmonhurst Corner South Tilley

Demographics

Population Population trend[4][5][1] Census Population Change (%) 2016 1,471 7.6% 2011 1,592 5.7% 2006 1,688 7.9% 2001 1,833 1.6% 1996 1,863 3.0% 1991 1,808 N/A

Language Mother tongue (2016)[1] Language Population Pct (%) English only 1,045 71.1% French only 365 24.8% Other languages 40 2.7% Both English and French 20 1.4%

See also

• List of parishes in New Brunswick

Notes

1. Civil parishes served a variety of government functions until 1966, when the new Municipalities Act stripped them of their responsibilities; they continue to provide convenient boundaries for government uses, especially electoral districts and local service districts. Statistics Canada uses civil parishes as census subdivisions for all parts of the province that are not within municipalities and similar entities.

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 23 July 2020.
3. "New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
4. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
5. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Denmark Parish, New Brunswick