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Chipman Parish, New Brunswick

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Country
  
Canada

Established
  
1835

Population
  
962 (2011)

County
  
Queens County

Time zone
  
AST (UTC-4)

Province
  
New Brunswick

Chipman Parish, New Brunswick

Chipman is a Canadian parish in Queens County, New Brunswick.

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History

Chipman Parish was erected in 1835 from Brunswick Parish and Canning Parish: named for Ward Chipman Jr. (1787-1851), the chief justice of New Brunswick from 1834-1851: included the eastern part of Waterborough Parish until 1896.

Delineation

Chipman Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act as being bounded:

Northwest and northeast by the County lines; southwest by a line beginning on the Sunbury County line, intersected by the northern line of lot number nine on the eastern side of the Hardwood Ridge Road; thence easterly along said line to the northeast angle of said lot; thence south forty-five degrees east to Salmon Bay; thence southeasterly in a direct line to Indian Point; thence easterly up the northeast arm of Grand Lake to Coal Creek; thence easterly up Coal Creek to the southeast angle of lot number one, surveyed for Malcolm Carmichael, at the Round Turns on said Coal Creek; thence northeasterly parallel to the northwest line of Brunswick Parish to the County line.

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

  • Salmon River
  • Gaspereau River
  • Access Routes

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

    References

    Chipman Parish, New Brunswick Wikipedia