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Greenwich Parish, New Brunswick

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Country
  
Canada

Established
  
1786

Population
  
1,047 (2011)

County
  
Kings County

Time zone
  
AST (UTC-4)

Province
  
New Brunswick

Greenwich Parish, New Brunswick

Greenwich is a Canadian parish in Kings County, New Brunswick.

Contents

Map of Greenwich, NB, Canada

History

Greenwich Parish set off from Kingston Parish in 1795: possibly named for Greenwich, Fairfield Co., Connecticut or for New York City's Greenwich Village.

Delineation

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

Northwest by the County line; southwest by Westfield Parish; southeast, east and northeast by the Saint John River including the islands in the Long Reach.

Governance

The entire parish forms the local service district of the parish of Greenwich, established in 1976 to assess for fire protection and first aid and ambulance services. Recreatonal facilities were added to the assessment in 1995, with first aid and ambulance services removed at the same time.

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

  • Clark Lake
  • Murphy Lake
  • Access Routes

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

    References

    Greenwich Parish, New Brunswick Wikipedia