Country Canada County Westmorland County Time zone AST (UTC-4) | Province New Brunswick Established 1787 | |
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Dorchester is a Canadian parish in Westmorland County, New Brunswick.
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History
The parish was established in 1787 and named for Sir Guy Carleton, 1st Baron of Dorchester (1724-1808) and the governor-in-chief of British North America: included most of Shediac Parish until 1827.
Delineation
Dorchester Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act as being bounded:
West by Petitcodiac River; north by a line running by the magnet of eighteen hundred and ninety-four; south eighty-three degrees and forty-five minutes east from the mouth of Fox Creek; east by the southeast line of lot numbered one (John Sherwood) and the prolongation thereof two hundred and fifty chains from the sea; thence north eleven degrees east by the magnet of the year seventeen hundred and sixty-five.Communities
Parish population total does not include incorporated municipalities (in bold):
Access routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:
References
Dorchester Parish, New Brunswick Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA