Country Canada County Westmorland County Time zone AST (UTC-4) | Province New Brunswick Established 1827 | |
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Shediac is a Canadian parish in Westmorland County, New Brunswick.
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History
Salisbury Parish was established from Dorchester Parish and Sackville Parish, and a small part of Westmorland Parish in 1827: it was the first parish to be given a name of native origin: the name came from a Mi'kmaq.
Delineation
Shediac Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act as being bounded:
East by Botsford Parish, northeasterly by Northumberland Strait and the County line; south by Dorchester and Sackville Parishes, and west by the prolongation of the west line of the grant to Columb Connor on Shediac Road. Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraphs (a) and (f), the dividing line between the Parishes of Botsford and Shediac shall be as follows: Beginning on the line separating the farms of the late Fidele LeBlanc (now called the Jude Boudreau farm) and lands formerly owned by Stephen Burk, where the said line crosses the main post road at Cap-Pelé, and following said farm line and its prolongations north four degrees and thirty minutes east by the magnet of the year nineteen hundred and three to the shore of Northumberland Strait, and also from said place of beginning south along said farm line and its prolongations four degrees and thirty minutes west to the Cumberland grant line.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
Shediac Parish, New Brunswick Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA